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The Kherlanji massacre (or Khairlanji massacre) refers to the 2006 murders of Dalits by members of the politically dominant Kunbi caste.〔Jaishankar, K. (2011), First International Conference of the South Asian Society () Criminology and Victimology (SASCV), 15-17 January 2011, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India: SASCV 2011 : Conference Proceedings, South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology. International Conference, PP-295〕 The killings took place in a small village in India named Kherlanji, located in the Bhandara district of the state of Maharashtra. ==History== On 29 September 2006, four members of the Bhotmange family belonging to a Dalit caste were murdered. The women of the family, Surekha and Priyanka, were paraded naked in public before being murdered. The Indian media did not cover this incident until the Nagpur riots by the Dalits. The criminal act was in fact carried out by assailants from the politically powerful Kunbi〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dalit blood on village square )〕 caste (classified as Other Backward Classes for "opposing" the requisition of their field to have a road built over it. Initial reports suggested that the women were gang-raped before being murdered. Though CBI investigations concluded that the women were not raped, there were allegations of bribery of doctors who performed the post-mortem, and of corruption. There were allegations that the local police shielded the alleged perpetrators in the ongoing investigation. A government report on the killings, prepared by the social justice department and YASHADA—the state academy of developmental administration, has implicated top police officers, doctors and even a BJP member of the Legislative Assembly, Madhukar Kukade in an alleged coverup and hindering the investigations. Kukade has denied these charges, saying that he had not even been in Kherlanji in months. The state Home Minister R. R. Patil admitted to initial lapses in police investigation and said that five policemen suspended in the investigation of the killings have been dismissed.〔()〕 In December 2006, CBI filed a chargesheet against 11 persons under charges of murder, criminal conspiracy, unlawful assembly with deadly weapons and outraging the modesty of women. CBI also said that it will investigate the role of the 36 people under detention.〔 The media coverage of the incident was initially weak, but picked up momentum after an investigative feature article by Sabrina Buckwalter in ''The Times of India'' provided the first mainstream, in-depth coverage of the massacre. In September 2008, six people were given the death sentence for the crime.〔(Economic Times )〕 However, on 14 July 2010, the Nagpur bench of the High Court commuted the death penalty awarded to the six convicted to a 25-year rigorous imprisonment jail sentence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Khairlanji massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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