女性獣医師集団レイプ殺害事件、各地で怒りの抗議デモ　インド

【ニューデリーＡＦＰ＝時事】インドで11月末に女性獣医師（27）が集団レイプされた後に殺害された事件を受け、同国では2日、首都ニューデリーをはじめハイデラバード、ベンガルールなど各地の都市で大規模な抗議デモが行われ、参加者らが怒りをあらわにした。参加者らは「われわれに正義を」などと書かれたプラカードを掲げていた。（写真はインド・ニューデリーで行われた抗議デモ）
　デモのきっかけとなった事件は先月２７日夜、インド南部ハイデラバード郊外の通行量の多い道路脇で発生。女性獣医師がスクーターを駐車し離れている間に４人の男がタイヤをパンクさせ、修理を申し出てトラック用の積み替え場に女性を連れ込み、集団レイプした後に殺害した。男らは人通りの少ない橋の下で、灯油をかけて遺体を焼いた。
　インドでは女性に対する性的暴行がまん延しており、今回の事件は２０１２年にニューデリーを走行していたバスの車内で２３歳の女子大学生が６人の男に性的暴行を受けて死亡し、インド全土はもとより世界に怒りが広がった事件をほうふつとさせる。
　２日にも西部ラジャスタン州の村で４０歳の男が、６歳の少女に対するレイプと殺害の疑いで逮捕された。この少女は学校帰りに行方不明となり、翌日、半裸状態の遺体で発見された。レイプされた後に学校の制服のベルトで首を絞められたとみられている。
　政府の最新統計によると、２０１７年には３万３０００件を超えるレイプ事件が報告されており、被害者のうち１万人以上が未成年だったという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/12/04-09:54）

Hundreds of Indian protestors took to the streets on Monday as public anger grew over the brutal gang-rape and murder of a female veterinary doctor, with one MP calling for the perpetrators to be lynched.
The demonstrations in New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and elsewhere took place as police found the semi-naked body of a six-year-old girl who appears to have been raped and then strangled with her school belt in Rajasthan.
The spark for the protests was the gang-rape and murder by four men of the 27-year-old vet next to a busy road in the outskirts of Hyderabad in southern India on Wednesday evening.
The men deflated a tyre on her moped and lured her to a truck yard with the promise of fixing it. Police say that the men then raped and murdered her before setting the body on fire with petrol under an isolated bridge.
Sexual violence against women is rife in India, and the latest case recalled the national and international outrage at the gang-rape and murder of a woman by six men on a Delhi bus in 2012.
The protests on Monday saw demonstrators brandish placards with slogans such as We want justice. Some covered their mouths with black cloth, demanding that the government provide security and punish the guilty.
I am outraged because I don't want to live with that fear, Kawalpreet Kaur, a student at the New Delhi rally told AFP. Other marches were expected later on Monday, including in the eastern city of Kolkata.
On Saturday, police used force to disperse hundreds of protesters after they tried to storm into a police station in Hyderabad where the four accused were held. They have since been charged.
- Raped and throttled -
In parliament, lawmakers on Monday also expressed their anguish, with Jaya Bachchan, a former actress and now an MP, saying the perpetrators should be brought out in public and lynched.
Another member demanded a sex offenders' registry and that rapists be castrated, as others blamed the immense backlog of cases in the Indian legal system for the rise in sexual violence.
In Rajasthan in the west, a 40-year-old man was arrested Monday following the discovery of the girl's body a day after she went missing from her school in a village near state capital Jaipur.
Investigators said the preliminary report suggests that she was raped and throttled with her school uniform belt before being thrown in bushes in a field.
We are questioning (the suspect) after locals saw him with the girl near the school before she disappeared, local police officer Ram Krishan told AFP.
More than 33,000 rapes were reported in India in 2017, according to the latest government figures that included more than 10,000 minor victims.