Lalitha Sampathi is General Secretary at the IWO and she is speaking in IWO activists meeting.
The Women people of Thungathurthi village.
Thungathurthi is a large village in the Nalgonda district, Telangana State of India. Thungathurthi has a population of 8379 inhabitants of which 3727 are males and 4652 are females, according to the 2011 Population Census. Women and young girls are suffering the most violence there. Women kill their babies after giving birth because of dowry fear and women and young girls are murdered. “Pedhamanusulu” mean bigger men who are doing sitting settlements without laws. Rapist criminals and murderers have escaped from prison and women protesting against laws receive bigger fines than men. This encourages crime. Women and young girls are suffering the most. Once our IWO activists went to the village and created an IWO committee with 25 executive members. The committee has 5 leaders, a president, a vice-president, a secretary, a joint secretary and a treasurer under laws.
One day IWO chief leaders called all village women and young girls for a meeting at the government school ground.IWO chief leaders informed them about women protecting laws and dowry prohibition acts. They called women to unite under the IWO village committee.
IWO activists taught women how to protect themselves from rapists and murderers, how to take women’s laws support, how to stop women’s killings, how to stop baby’s killings right after birth and how to ask for police action. IWO activists told women and young girls not to go to Bigger men’s sitting settlement without women protest laws, not to kill babies after giving birth with dowry fear and to take IWO village committee support. Women in Thungathurthi now ask for IWO activists support every time they have a problem.
One day, Ravi raped a 19-year-old girl called Rani. At the time the bigger men “pedha manusulu” called the victim's parents for a meeting but the victim’s parents avoided their call. The bigger men were angry with the girl’s parents, but parents asked IWO activists for help. IWO activists filed a complaint with the police, with a good witness. The police arrested the rapist Ravi. And so the village women and girls took courage from that incident. Now women and girls are happier. They raised an IWO white flag. What does the white flag mean? Liberty for Indian women and a peaceful safe life.
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