August 28, 2005
India rebels 'making porn films' with captured tribal women
This is not specifically related to cell phones, though it's likely that these films will be appearing on the Internet and on videophones, if they haven't already. But it's just so, well upsetting.
Rebels in India's north-eastern state of Tripura are making pornographic films to raise money for their separatist campaign, officials say, reports the BBC.
The information has come from surrendered guerrillas of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), according to police.
They say the rebels are forcing captured tribal women, and some men, to take part in the films. The DVDs are then dubbed to be sold in India and neighbouring countries.
The former guerrillas of the NLFT have told police their leaders not only sexually abused scores of tribal girls recruited into the rebel army but also used them - and some male guerrillas - to produce scores of porn films, officials say.
... But while forcing tribal women to have sex with them at gunpoint or carrying them away to the rebel camps is not new, using them to produce pornography certainly is."
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