Once driven largely by superstition, the brutal practice is now often simply a tool to oppress women, in many cases violently.
Tag: Vigilantes
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Tucker Carlson, ‘White Men’ and the Lynch Mob Mentality
What the cable host could ‘taste’ in the heat of the moment was the power to assign death.
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Killing of Atiq Ahmed in India Renews Alarm About Extrajudicial Violence
The victim was a former politician, a notorious criminal and a Muslim. Afterward, two government officials described the killing as akin to divine justice.