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| India-Pakistan |
| The guilt of Kasur |
| 2015-08-14 |
| [DAWN] A FEW muddy years, a clutch of complaints and some hither-thither investigation later, we are still in the process of finding out about the Kasur child abuse case. We are not too sure as yet since we have always known that this has been happening close to us. We are not ready to accept since we have been trained to overlook what is in our immediate vicinity and to try and reject what is staring us obscenely in our face. Every child out there without appropriate protection is vulnerable. He or she is exposed to unhindered, often public, groping, by adult insinuation, and eventually, by touch: physical touch. We all know that. While on our way to respectable -- slightly securer -- positions in society, we have all been subjected to or, what is easier to accept, been witness to sexual abuse of some kind. Over a series of these incidents we have been taught about how to cloak these realities -- quite often as inevitable, if dark and ugly experiences, during our growing up years. Kasur seeks to cruelly lift the assiduously woven cover over a reality that is tough to encounter. In fear of our discovery, we react and cling to our shield reflexively. The resistance that we put up against the revealing of the truth is a tribute to our ability to stand by our convention. This is a sex scandal but it is one that has been blown out of proportion, goes the refrain. There are complaints about abuse but there are not as many complaints as some of those who have been reporting on it would have us believe, some insist. The media is in agreement that a grave crime appears to have taken place but again, conveniently, there are some in the media who have been compelled by their reasons for exploiting a popular situation towards meeting their ends. |
| Posted by:Fred |