“My mother was tethered onto a school pole and was battered and fed human excreta on Tuesday, and my mother died on Friday” – Eye witness account of 10 year old Suman Nepali.
Suman Nepali, victim’s son who witnessed atrocities on his mother I Photo: Annapurna Post
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The ugly side of beautiful Nepal: 10-year-old witnesses mum being publicly flogged, fed faeces…then she dies
12 December 2016: No one should see what Suman Nepali saw last Tuesday. The 10 year old schooolboy witnessed his mother being publicly flogged, forced to eat human faeces and then attacked again. By Friday morning, his mother was gone.
Her villagers accused Laxmi Nepali of being a witch.
Unfortunately, this is not a one off incident in Nepal. Many Nepali women from the so-called “low castes” have been accused of being witch often leading to degrading, vicious physical attacks on them and cold-blooded murder.
What sets apart last Tuesday’s attack, however, is the fact that the one who perpetrated the barbaric act was none other the “social studies teacher” of the victim’s ten year old son.
In other words, the one who should have been teaching school kids, including those from the so-called “higher castes”, to treat all human beings with equal respect and dignity was the one who taught them to be racist and merciless abuser of human rights.
Hira Lama, the murderous teacher in question, and his mother attacked Suman Nepali’s mother right in front of his eyes and other spectators, reported Nepali-language daily Annapurna Post.
According to Suman’s police statement (based on which a number of media outlets ran reports on Sunday), the teacher and his mother were waiting for them around 5 pm on Tuesday. They began attacking her the moment they saw the helpless mother as she was heading home from her work on a villager’s farm. They reportedly tied her to a pole, beat her up and forced her to human waste. None in that Kavre district village came forward to stop the attack and rescue the woman indicating just how deeply entrenched the caste-system and superstition is in Nepal.
Once the attackers were satisfied with the torture, they let her go. She gathered her two children and began walking home. Suman’s mother would have probably survived, even after that vicious attack, if not for the monstrosity of the teacher who caught up with her for a second time and unleashed another vicious attack. This time only more viciously, repeatedly hitting her head with a piece of wood and freely kicking her on the chest.
As they lived three hours walk from the nearest town of Dhulikhel, Laxmi Nepali could not be brought to hospital on time and subsequently died Friday morning.
The teacher is in police custody, reports said.
Interestingly, the husband of the deceased (father of Suman Nepali) is also in police custody for unknown reasons.
The Witchcraft Act which was endorsed in the parliament in August 2015 aimed to minimise violence borne out of witchcraft accusations against women. According to the Act, a person found guilty of assaulting women on charge of witchcraft could face a jail term of five to ten years and a fine of Rs 50,000.
The Act clearly has not deterred racial and superstitious attacks on women.
Video clip of eye-witness account of victim’s 10-year old son:
Jagaran Media Center Coverage (As of December 18, 2016):
लक्ष्मी परियारका हत्यारालाई हदैसम्मको कारवाहीको माग गर्दै काठमाडौंमा र्याली तथा बिरोध सभा
DECEMBER 16, 2016 8:50 AM / LEAVE A COMMENT
२०७३ पुस १, जागरण मिडिया सेन्टर
दलितमाथि अन्याय : प्रशासनले किन न्याय दिँदैन ?
DECEMBER 16, 2016 6:19 AM / LEAVE A COMMENT
-अशोक दर्नाल
लक्ष्मीको शरीरमा टाउकोदेखि पैतालासम्म एकनासका चोट
DECEMBER 16, 2016 4:33 AM / LEAVE A COMMENT
२०७३ पुष १, जागरण मिडिया सेन्टर
लक्ष्मी परियारको पोस्टमार्टम रिपोर्ट
प्रत्यक्षदर्शी १० वर्षीय छोराको बयान र पोस्टमार्टम रिपोर्ट उस्तै
-अर्जुन अधिकारी/नयाँ पत्रिका
लक्ष्मीको हत्यामा संलग्नलाई कारबाहीको माग गर्दै काठमाडौंमा प्रदर्शन (फोटो फिचर)
DECEMBER 14, 2016 7:02 AM / LEAVE A COMMENT
-कृष्ण पौड्याल
मानवअधिकार आयोगको टोलीसँग बालकले यसाे भने : ममीलाई यही पोलमा सरले यसरी बाँध्नुभयो
DECEMBER 13, 2016 5:12 AM / LEAVE A COMMENT
२०७३ मंसिर २८,जागरण मिडिया सेन्टर
राजनीतिदृष्टिकोणप्रश्नोत्तरसम्पादकीयप्रोफाइलपेज थ्रीअर्थतन्त्रफोटो ग्यालरीप्रवास लक्ष्मी परियार हत्या प्रकरणः लक्ष्मीकी सासू विष्णुकुमारीले पत्रकार र प्रहरीका अगाडि भनिन्
DECEMBER 12, 2016 5:23 AM / LEAVE A COMMENT
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Other news coverage of the incident:
NHRC probes death of Dalit woman in Kavre
http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2016-12-13/nhrc-probes-death-of-dalit-woman-in-kavre.html
Demonstrators seek justice for Laxmi Pariyar [Photo feature]
http://bit.ly/2hqqCYP
GOOGLE Search: काभ्रेको सानो बाङथलीकी लक्ष्मी परियार (Laxmi Pariyar) को हत्या प्रकरण
RELATED BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Panel Discussion on Caste Discrimination and Women in Nepal
The audio recording of panel discussion on caste discrimination and Nepali women. Dr. Drona Rasali and Ms. Sushma Barakoti were the panelists, and Bhumika Ghimire served as the moderator. (January 27, 2011). The atrocious assault such as the one resulting in the death of Laxmi Pariyar is not an isolated incident, but a systemically recurring extremely violent form of caste discrimination. Dr. Rasali explained this phenomenon at about 13:40 minutes in this audio recorded nearly 6 years ago.
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