The state of West Bengal in eastern India adjoins Bangladesh, and is dominated by Muslims. The woman interviewed in the following video describes the harassment she and other Hindu women have to endure when attempting to travel to the temple to worship.
Many thanks to Achintya Das for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
| 00:00 | Was that your son? Yes. | |
| 00:04 | Tell me about the incident and your name: Saraswati Halder. | |
| 00:08 | Okay, don’t repeat the same talk. | |
| 00:12 | Yes tell me, we were going. | |
| 00:16 | We had the desire to pray at a temple so we were going to that temple for worship. | |
| 00:20 | They started to resist us and beat us; I opposed them. | |
| 00:24 | I touched their feet and started crying. | |
| 00:27 | I told them don’t harm our kids, but they said we will not allow you to worship, we will kill you all, | |
| 00:30 | whores, and we want to choke your throat and slam you to the ground. | |
| 00:33 | why do you f**king prayer here? we will f**k your prayer and worship. | |
| 00:36 | Muslims said this to us. | |
| 00:40 | What the f**k Lord Sree Krishna, why are you worshiping this Lord Krishna? We will thrash Gopal (Lord Krishna). | |
| 00:44 | You whore women are going to worship Gopal (Lord Krishna). | |
| 00:49 | Was there any physical torture of the women? Yes, they abused us with very filthy language. | |
| 00:53 | We called them ‘brother’ and touched their feet | |
| 00:57 | and requested, ‘please allow us to leave this place’, but they cordoned us off for a long while | |
| 01:01 | They were capturing photos of some people, who are they? | |
| 01:05 | Oh, yes, Shanti Haldar. | |
| 01:09 | Were they taking the photos of girls? | |
| 01:13 | Yes, they took photos of Madhavi and Shanti. | |
| 01:17 | Also took a photo of Alo, they captured photos of 3-4 girls on camera. | |
| 01:21 | They also captured the photos of many other people and were they using filthy language after taking the photos? | |
| 01:25 | Yes. They used very bad slang language, and that is so filthy can’t make my mouth say it right now. | |
| 01:29 | I begged them and touched their feet and called them big brother. | |
| 01:33 | I told them, ‘brother, please don’t harm us; I will leave this place with the kids.’ | |
| 01:38 | I cried and left the place with agony. |
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