Separatists in India, from the National Liberation Front of Tripura in northeast India are financing their activities by producing pornography. The people in the pornographic films are coerced "captured tribal women, and some men" who are made to participate by "boys standing around with automatic rifles and revolvers."
"This seems to have started a year or two back," says local journalist Manas Paul who began legal proceedings to bring this to the notice of the authorities.
"But it is now rampant, so many of these discs are circulating all over our state and possibly in other parts of northeast India as well," he said.
But in some other northeast Indian states like Manipur, the rebels punish those who produce pornography.
In the state of Manipur, some girls who acted in porn films were shot in the legs, as were the producers.
While rape - and punishing the victims the same way as the perpetrators - is apparantly nothing new, videotaping and selling it is revolutionary.
Posted by binky at August 27, 2005 06:59 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Gender and Politics