印度古吉拉特邦警察強姦男同性戀
In a chilling reminder of the atrocities perpetrated on helpless gay men in India, a 23 yearold man was brutally raped by two policemen in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in the wee hours of Sunday, 9th Feb, 2014. The incident happened on SG Road near Science City, when the victimwas returning to his car to go home after a party.
在印度古吉拉特邦的艾哈邁達巴德，一位23歲的男同性戀在週日凌晨慘遭兩名警察的強姦。2014年2月9日，此案發生於科學城附近的SG路附近，受害人當時剛離開一個聚會，準備上車回家。（譯註：艾哈邁達巴德(Ahmedabad),又譯阿麥達巴,在鄭和下西洋時譯作阿撥巴丹,是印度古吉拉特邦的第一大城市,印度的第七大城市。）
The two policemen, intheir mid-20s, were posted on duty during the Ahmedabad gay pride march held onDecember 1st, in which the victim had participated. Today as the man wasreturning to his car, the policemen recognized and accosted him, asking if hehad taken part in the march. On his confirmation, the cops demanded to see his license and papers and started hurling abuses at him. The victim protested and tried to get away, but the cops started beating him up with sticks and forced themselves on him, abusing him all the time and remarking 'jab poori duniya semarwai hai, toh humse bhi marwa le' (when you have got fucked by the wholeworld, then get fucked by us too) . The man returned home battered and bruised with multiple wounds on his body. The cops were not drunk and were in full control of their senses.
這兩名二十多歲的警察曾在12月1日的艾哈邁達巴德同性戀遊行期間執勤，而受害人當時也參加了這場遊行。於是當受害人走向車子的時候，兩名警察認出了他，並上前向他搭話，問他參沒參與那次遊行。當受害人表示參與過之後，警察就要求他出示駕駛執照和文件，並開始出言辱罵他。受害人反抗並試圖逃跑，但兩位警察開始用警棍毆打他，並對其強行肛交，期間一直用言語辱罵諸如“jab poori duniya se marwai hai, toh humse bhi marwa le”這樣的話（大意爲：既然你都被全世界操過了，那自然也要挨我倆的操）。完事後，受害者衣衫破碎，渾身帶傷地回到了家。而二位警察當時沒有喝醉，神智完全清醒。The victim belongs to a powerful political family of Gujarat, is not open about his sexual orientation to his family and is averse to filing a police complaint due to the attendant publicity that it would involve. He fears that his high-profile family background would cause severe trouble to him during an election year ifhe decides to report the incident. He broke down to his friends after the incident and has been in a suicidal mood, but is being attended to by friends.
受害人來自古吉拉特邦一個頗有權勢的政治家族，還未將他的性取向和家人公佈。而他也不願向警方報案，因爲擔心事情宣揚出去後會引發公衆關注，自己引人注目的家族背景可能會在選舉年給他帶來大麻煩。他只能在事情發生後向友人傾訴，還有過自殺的念頭，如今正由他的朋友照料着。
The incident highlights the daily insecurities faced by the LGBT community in India who are harassed by the authorities. Post the Supreme Court order criminalizinghomosexuality, a lot of gay men have been going back into the closet and are hesitant to speak about their sexual orientation. Whilst rape cases in Indiahave been highlighted with conviction supposedly being fast-tracked after the Delhi gangrape of 2012, incidents involving gay rape are rarely reported because the victims fear a double 'stigma'– that of rape and of having a 'criminal' sexualorientation, being forcibly 'outed' to the society. Most male victims of rapeinternalize their suffering and live them through their daily lives, not beingable to report the criminals and neither being able to tell their near and dear ones of their suffering. The Supreme Court, in its verdict on the 377 casedwelt primarily on the poor conviction rate and lack of reported cases of harassment as a basis for retaining the section.
事件引發了印度同性戀羣體的不安全感。印度同性戀的地位一向尷尬。印度最高法院將同性戀定位非法，使得男同性戀們往往不敢出櫃，也不敢講自己的性取向公開。與此同時，在2012年黑公交案過後，印度強姦案的定罪速度已經有了很大的進步，而同性強姦卻少有報道，因爲受害者們害怕遭受雙重“羞辱”——不僅是因爲強姦本身，也因爲這是一種“有罪”的性行爲，會讓他們被社會排斥。許多強姦案的男性受害者選擇默默忍受，將這些爛在肚子裏，既不會報案也不會將這些告訴他們最親近的人。由於印度刑法377條款的存在（譯註：即同性戀非法），此類事件少有立案，也少有報道。This case is a grim reminder of how criminalizing a sexual act, which Section 377 does is in itselfa reason for cases not being reported and violent crimes also remaining within the closet. With victims being criminalized forced to keep their trauma and sufferings under wraps, it is the rapists who walk free and roam the streets emboldened. With custodians of law themselves colluding to ravage a man whom they had been sent out to protect, the incident highlights the long and mostly non existent path to justice that the community faces in India.
此案讓人意識到一個冷酷的現實，那就是將同性戀定位非法的刑法377條款本身卻成爲了讓案件不被曝光，罪惡不得懲戒的原因。由於受害人只能默默忍受，那些大搖大擺走在街上的強姦犯就更加大膽。在此案中，兩位執法者合謀對一位他們本應保護的公民進行摧殘，可見對於印度來說，實現公平正義還有很長很長的一段路要走。
