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Boksi in the Nepalese language. They blamed her for using black magic to make a young girl ill in Myagdi district, 400km south of the capital, Kathmandu.
“She was severely beaten with logs so that her witch’s spell would leave the girl’s body,” said a local teacher, Man Bahadur Pariyar, who with other villagers helped to rescue 60-year-old Darji and took her to the local health centre.
“This should not be tolerated. It is time we realised this [so-called] witch-craft is ridiculous and primitive,” said Pariyar.
Women’s rights activists have been battling for decades to end this form of gender violence but the problem persists, especially in the Terai region, the southern fertile plains of the country, they say.
“We are still shocked to find the incidence of women being subject to the worst form of violence – both physical and mental – at the hands of their families and local communities,” said activist Bandana Rana.
Rana’s documentary film, Witch – Myth or Reality, made nearly a decade ago, for the first time exposed the gross violation of human rights against Nepalese women accused of being witches.
“She was severely beaten with logs so that her witch’s spell would leave the girl’s body,” said a local teacher, Man Bahadur Pariyar, who with other villagers helped to rescue 60-year-old Darji and took her to the local health centre.
“This should not be tolerated. It is time we realised this [so-called] witch-craft is ridiculous and primitive,” said Pariyar.
Women’s rights activists have been battling for decades to end this form of gender violence but the problem persists, especially in the Terai region, the southern fertile plains of the country, they say.
“We are still shocked to find the incidence of women being subject to the worst form of violence – both physical and mental – at the hands of their families and local communities,” said activist Bandana Rana.
Rana’s documentary film, Witch – Myth or Reality, made nearly a decade ago, for the first time exposed the gross violation of human rights against Nepalese women accused of being witches.
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