![]() ![]() Survivors reported "that sexual violence consisted of forced nudity, mass rapes, gang-rapes, mutilation, insertion of objects into bodies, cutting of breasts, slitting the stomach and reproductive organs, and carving of religious symbols on women's body parts." The Concerned Citizens' Tribunal, characterised the use of rape "as an instrument for the subjugation and humiliation of a community". ĭuring the 2002 riots in Gujarat, targeted violence against women and children documented by civil society groups reported "mass rapes, live burials and burnings, acid attacks, impaling, and other brutal forms of torture that was deeply gendered, and linked violence against women with violence on their children – both born and unborn". No one intervened until the police arrived. In July 2012, a teenage girl was sexually assaulted for up to 45 minutes by a large group of men outside a bar in Guwahati, Assam. ![]() ![]() Several cases of mass sexual assault have been reported in India. See also: 2012 Guwahati molestation case, 2012 Mangalore homestay attack, and Gargi College molestations ![]() Typically acting under the protective cover of large gatherings, victims have reported being groped, stripped, beaten, bitten, penetrated and raped. Mass sexual assault is the collective sexual assault of women, men and sometimes children, in public by groups. ![]()
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