Rape, for any woman, is the worst nightmare imaginable. Life after rape is unimaginable and even for the toughest of us, seems like a fate worst than death itself. But the rape of a child, who does not even understand what has happened to her, is beyond any thing that words can describe.
Little girls are those bundles of energy that electrify the lives they touch. For parents they are an excuse to get up each morning and live one more day and for the rest of us they are creatures that most closely resemble the angels of our imagination. And when one of these angels-like beings is sexually violated, the very notion of humanity is in question so that the difference between man and animal becomes blurred. It is outside the nature of a soul-possessing human being and any sane and normal human being is left disgusted by such an act.
Therefore, today one can only question the sanity of Naga society that has barely fluttered its eyelash at the report of one such horrible act against human nature.
Where are the do-gooders of our society that are always to be seen organizing useless functions to attract the press? Where are the political parties, political institutions and politicians who enjoy sending press release after press release over stupid issues that do not even concern public welfare?
Where are the national workers and revolutionaries who fight and kill each other over their high- sounding ideologies for “Naga people”?
Where are the Naga Hohos and tribal hohos, Naga People’s Movement of Human Rights, NGOs, student organizations and leaders, the GBs and DBs, village councils and the many other organizations and associations that Naga society is so infested with?
Also where is the Naga Baptist Church Council (NBCC) and the Christ like service it should be rendering to other suffering Christians? What about the Nagaland State Women Commission who thank that the purpose of its formation is justified simply by issuing the same press release of condemnation (with minor changes in the names of victims and culprits) for every incident of rape?
A family has been traumatized; one of our own has been violently abused; a child of God has lost her innocence; a future Naga leader who should have been in school has been injured, but there is no shock or remorse.
We seem to be waiting forever to act, waiting until another case is reported, until the next child is violated, until another family is traumatized, and waiting for justice that never seems to come at all. Pray that it is not your family next.