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Indian brides had 'virginity test'
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by archita | July 15, 2009 at 06:32 pm
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DISGUSTING...UNFAIR
this incident is shocking, i empathize with those women who had to go through those torturous moments. why are women always demanded to prove their chastity, this whole event of so called Mass Marriage is by itself a foolish thing and to add on to that the women were put through this? the state must take a strong action against people responsible for this and really make sure this does not happen again.
my blood boils with anger .the government who formulates or Aids' such events and term them as Help, should help the girls by providing them with Schools ,Education material, Work Opportunities and not help them get married to some moron who asks for a Test of virginity. The government needs to grow up and change their narrow minded thoughts and acts.
India brides had 'virginity test'
India's National Commission for Women wants Madhya Pradesh state to explain why hundreds of would-be brides reportedly underwent virginity tests.
All the women who took part in a state-run mass wedding last month were forced to take the test, witnesses say.
Several of the women later complained that they had found the exercise shameful and humiliating.
Officals deny virginity tests took place. They said the tests had been to ensure the women were not pregnant.
In India, a bride's virginity is highly prized and pre-marital sex is frowned upon.
'Dubious'
According to reports, young women who had signed up for the mass marriage ceremony in the city of Shahdol, 600km (373 miles) from the state capital, Bhopal, were told about the test when they reached the venue.
Such a shameful act where girls had to reportedly undergo tests to prove their chastity to avail the government's financial aid were sinful
Girija Vyas,
National Commission for WomenAlmost all of them were from poor, tribal families.
Eyewitnesses said the women had to queue up before undergoing an extensive physical examination by a female doctor before they were given a special badge which allowed them to participate in the ceremony.
Several of the women were quoted as saying that they had at first refused to submit to the test - but were told by officials that they would receive their wedding gifts worth 6,500 rupees (about $132) only if they took the test.
"Such a shameful act where girls had to reportedly undergo tests to prove their chastity to avail the government's financial aid were sinful and could not be tolerated in a sane society," the chairperson of the Indian National Commission for Women, Girija Vyas, said.
But a senior administration official in Shahdol, Neeraj Dubey, denied there had been any virginity tests.
He told the BBC that the number of marriage candidates who had turned up at the venue had far exceeded initial applications.
Many of the would-be brides did not have proper documents and some looked "dubious", he said. Therefore, officials present had asked the doctor to examine the candidates, he said.
Officials say pregnancy tests were introduced after a woman gave birth during an earlier mass wedding ceremony.
Mass marriages, generally organised by social organisations, are common in India where the custom of dowry is still widespread.
The scheme in Madhya Pradesh was started in 2006 by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan to aid girls from poor families to get married.
The scheme helped Mr Chauhan's Bharatiya Janata Party win many votes in state assembly elections last year.
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at 12:21 on July 16th, 2009
i couldn't agree more...but at some point that was the talk we had years back...today our president is a woman....
http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/government_ropes_in_woman_power.php
a large population of women in the government....SO....what is missing then?? why are these things still happening...who are these bunch of fascist fool....who want to earn the tag of being 'god father' to the poor and tormenting them in this way.....
how do we stop this....i knew we could write to our government to find solutions to our problems....but well your so called savior is your biggest enemy today.....feels helpless
at 19:05 on July 15th, 2009
This is still quite a common practice in quite a few countries from what I understand - not that it makes it right though.
at 19:13 on July 15th, 2009
yes i know that.....but why should the so called Governing body encourage such things, and its always the ones who are already in terrible condition with regards to money and shelter , are the ones who are exploited and made to face such humiliation. it is so sad, just wish i could do something to stop this.
at 19:19 on July 15th, 2009
Maybe of little significance. Sometimes back when Miss Dr. Jayalalitha was the Chief mMnister of Indian state tamilnadu, she too organized a mass wedding, and gifted some money/ dress to the brides. Many of the "newly-wed" brides rushed immediately after the ceremony to breast-feed their babies!
In many cases, people get the kind of government they deserve.
at 19:38 on July 15th, 2009
hu?? can you give details cause i cannot recall this , would love to know more....the wedding i can recall that jayalalita organized in a huge way was her son's wedding and she did donate a lot to the masses, and equally extracted from the society according to me.....but yes, tell me more if you do know
at 20:42 on July 15th, 2009
DOMINANCE is the desire of many governmental officials throughout the world, most evident in the treatment of the least powerful among any country's population. In India, women are disenfranchised, so they are the objects of tyranny. America's capacity cruel dominance is evidenced in the treatment of 2.3 million prisoners, 50% of them being mentally ill. Around 25,000 are in solitary confinement torture for months or years, and 60% of those inmates are acute mental patients. The way the Indian brides were treated with a premarital virginity test was cruel, and the fact that it was government-sanctioned cruelty does not supprise me. See the capacity for cruelty to disenfranchised people in this video. Prison conditions within the U.S are nearly as bad as those in the War on Terror camps, although Sen. Webb and others are trying to address the situation now. See VIDEO
(Beware - graphic violence, nudity, and death):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWxpQ87C4t4
It only begins with the least among us. Soon EVERYONE may get a taste of governmental dominance.
Britain begins ENFORCED H1N1 vaccines in Agust with a drug that is still in clinical trials. Those who refuse for themselves and their children will be denied child benefits and school (again, targeting women, particularly poor mothers who receive benefits and cannot afford private education for their children).
America plans CONCENTRATION CAMPS for all who refuse to become test rats for Big Govt. and Big Pharm, with full knowledge that African Americans consider the Tuskegee Experiments and would likely refuse experimental drugs. See H.R. 645 - a congressional bill for six (6) concentration camps in America. For more info on the plan, see
Maybe LaToya Jackson Is Right
http://my.nowpublic.com/culture/maybe-latoya-jackson-right#comment-409756
The elitist goal is fascism. In India, first, they came for the women . . . .
at 20:03 on July 15th, 2009
This is an old news, maybe 6-8 years old. I read it in local news papers and sorry, I don't even remember in which year it happened. One of those "read -and -forget" kind of news,you know - though the "forget" part did not happen properly.