• Asia: India executes the four convicted of the violation that marked the country in 2012

The death on Tuesday of an "untouchable" (or "Dalit") young woman, a member of the lowest echelons of the Hindu caste system, after being gang-raped by upper-caste men, has sparked outrage in India against the violence that women still suffer, especially in this marginalized social group.

The 19-year-old victim had been hospitalized since she was raped by four men on 14 September in the village of Hathras, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

That day the young woman had gone out with her mother to the field to cut grass and at a time when both separated,

the attackers dragged the victim to a hidden place, where they raped her and tried to strangle her,

according to the family's version. of the young woman picked up in a statement by the Hathras Police.

The attackers caused her multiple fractures, for which she was admitted in critical condition first to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh and then to a more resourced health center in New Delhi, where she died this morning.

The victim's family blamed the police for not responding quickly after reporting the attack, although the security forces insist they acted immediately.

"We arrested the four defendants on the same day as the complaint. Measures are being taken. Now section 302 of the penal code will be applied and a statement of charges will be presented soon," explained a spokesman for the Hathras Police, who requested anonymity .

The death of the young woman generated a wave of visible outrage on social networks, which flooded demanding justice for the victim and accusing the Uttar Pradesh government of not offering protection to women or "Dalits".

"This speaks to the reality of the assaults on untouchable women and girls. It connects all the dots, it shows a bigger picture of the structural violence against Dalits, Dalit women. Do not isolate or turn this case into an exceptional and horrifying aberration." , the well-known activist Kavita Krishnan denounced on Twitter.

The untouchable leader and former head of Government of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati, also demanded in the same social network that the local authorities "provide all possible help to the victim's family and guarantee prompt punishment for the aggressors."

Local televisions such as the Delhi channel NDTV also showed protests in Hathras and in various parts of New Delhi, such as in the vicinity of the hospital where the victim died, where members of the organization in defense of the Dalits, Bhim Army, gathered. they asked for capital punishment for the aggressors.

India experienced an unprecedented wave of massive protests against violence against women in late 2012, following the gang rape of a young college girl on a bus in New Delhi and her subsequent death from serious injuries.

That case marked a before and after in the country and since then the laws against sexual assaults have been tightening, also accelerating the death penalty against some aggressors, although many criticize that the measures have not been sufficient.

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