“Small bones. Little bones.”
Babykillers at this Punjab abortion clinic used to dump the unwanted female foetuses into a pit:
Manual labourer Gulzar Singh is haunted by the day he exhumed baby foetuses from a pit outside an abortion clinic in one of the grisliest chapters in India’s fight against female feticide.
“Inside the well I found bones. Small ones. Little, little ones. There were some baby skulls too,” recalled Singh with a shudder.
Singh was ordered by police in early August to dig up pits on the grounds of a private hospital in Pattran, a small town in Punjab, which was suspected of operating an illegal abortion clinic….
Tethered to the end of a rope held by three of his friends, Singh was lowered towards the gruesome find but almost immediately shouted to be brought out.
“The smell was very foul,” he said. “Exhaust fans were used to blow out the toxic gases before I went in again.”
For the next several hours, Singh sent up buckets full of human remains, blood-stained gauzes and bandages, empty bottles of abortion-inducing medicines…
AAAA.. The worst part is that if found guilty, these guys will be in prison for only 10 years! Shouldn’t they be charged with murder?
Comment by Sneha — September 22, 2006 @ 8:12 am
I understand male dominance within my own cultural context. I know boy children carry on the family name. I know that I live in country with flexibility and unspoken realities, our paradox.
I read this and I was limited in my ability to find a place of sensory, intimate, internal understanding, or insight, or comprehension.
I do not even know how to imagine this.
Well, I do now.
I am not a fan of blindness.
When I read about the shortage of women it caused a coalescence because prior to reading this that is exactly what I was thinking.
How odd: You can not have children without men and women, males and females. This is our biological reality, no matter what country we come from.
I think I will try to understand this aspect outside my world better.
What kind of person can do this blithely?
Day in day out?
Now, there is a question.
Thank you once again for a horrific enlightening.
Sincerely,
Kim
Comment by Kim — October 9, 2006 @ 3:54 am