Asifa Bano, an 8-year-old girl from Kashmir recently lost her precious life. How? Because a bunch of men (if we can still call them that) decided it was okay to abduct, gang-rape and kill her. Asifa’s dead body was found three days after her disappearance on 17th January.
Reportedly, the 8 men accused in the case were Hindu and the victim of this heinous crime, Asifa was a Muslim nomad who belonged to the Bakarwal tribe. A daily reported the victim’s father, Mohammad Yusuf Pujwala saying he believed the ordeal that his daughter went through was a ploy to drive the tribe away from that area. The police also stated that she was killed in a Hindu temple as a step to further the religious feud.
Thousands of people are enraged across the nation, including many of our Bollywood celebrities. Some of them took to Twitter to express their anguish:
Imagine what goes through the mind of an 8 yr old as she is drugged, held captive, gang raped over days and then murdered.
If you don’t feel her terror, you are not human.
If you don’t demand Asifa get justice, you belong to nothing.— Farhan Akhtar (@FarOutAkhtar) April 12, 2018
Inhuman!!! Appalling !!!!! Justice has to has to be served!!!!! #Asifa
— Karan Johar (@karanjohar) April 12, 2018
Yet again we’ve failed as a society. Can’t think straight as more chilling details on little Asifa’s case emerge…her innocent face refuses to leave me. Justice must be served, hard and fast! https://t.co/xrW5RVffLe
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) April 12, 2018
Equal rights/gender bias/pay disparity all seem like such distant, first world concerns.Lets begin with addressing the unmentionable horrors of the absense of humanity.The only way forward, if at all, from this blood curdling barbarism is justice.Heartbroken and aghast. #Asifa
— Nimrat Kaur (@NimratOfficial) April 12, 2018
U CANNOT BE SILENT WHEN AN 8 YR OLD GIRL HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED, DRUGGED, TORTURED, REPEATEDLY GANG RAPED FOR DAYS AND THEN MURDERED!
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY RELIGION AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH HUMANITY AND JUSTICE
PLS DEMAND #JUSTICEFORASIFA https://t.co/kHRxOfJ8XG
— atul kasbekar (@atulkasbekar) April 12, 2018
I can’t breathe after reading this. I need to share it. And so do you. Please do. #JusticeforAsifa https://t.co/tPKXuDcRX6
— Vir Das (@thevirdas) April 12, 2018
Shame. Shame on us for letting religious & political issues come in the way of humanity. Shame on us for waking up to this heinous crime months later,after international media has highlighted it. Shame on us for not being able to protect the girls of our country. #JusticeForAsifa
— Sonali Bendre Behl (@iamsonalibendre) April 12, 2018
We need to fight for justice for this child. We cannot continue to allow these things to happen. We must not move on or get over this we all have to react asifa was India’s daughter we cannot fail her we need #JusticeforAsifa pic.twitter.com/MK3czCJCnZ
— Varun DAN Dhawan (@Varun_dvn) April 12, 2018
Humanity has it an all time low …. only one path to redemption #JusticeforAsifa …
— Neha Dhupia (@NehaDhupia) April 12, 2018
An 8 year old girl was gangraped & murdered in a temple because she belonged to a Muslim tribe that Hindu right wing goons wanted evicted from their area! #Kathua #India this is on us!!!! If in #Delhi pls join TODAY #JusticeforAsifa pic.twitter.com/D8GTf3gYMl
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) April 12, 2018
This face is going to haunt the collective consciousness of our nation #JusticeForAsifa pic.twitter.com/orPLe42iUY
— atul kasbekar (@atulkasbekar) April 12, 2018
Don’t know who to say what to.. don’t know if making a statement on social media is in anyway a contribution to retribution.. it has happened before .. it has happened again .. how will it stop ?? Extreme Examples have to be made .. #JusticeforAsifa #Kathua #Unnao pic.twitter.com/bFOoTWxfcI
— Randeep Hooda (@RandeepHooda) April 12, 2018
Seriously, what are humans turning into?