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| Rebellion financed by porn |
| 2005-08-27 |
| Rebels in India's north-eastern state of Tripura are making pornographic films to raise money for their separatist campaign, officials say. The information has come from surrendered guerrillas of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), according to police. They say the rebels are forcing captured tribal women, and some The former guerrillas of the NLFT have told police their leaders not only sexually abused scores of tribal girls recruited into the rebel army but also used them - and some male guerrillas - to produce scores of porn films, officials say. "The films were found to be dubbed in Burmese, Bengali, Thai and Hindi, suggesting they were being marketed to many countries in the region," said Ghanshyam Murari Srivastava, Tripura's police chief. Discreet inquiries with video production houses in Tripura confirmed what the surrendered rebels are reported to have said. "We do get orders to process raw porn shot in remote tribal areas from time to time," the owner of a video production company in the state's capital Agartala told the BBC. "We know the insurgents are behind these films. When we process their raw stock, we can see boys standing around with automatic rifles and revolvers pulling in girls but we are supposed to cut all that out and just concentrate on the sex," the owner said. "It is very good money and we don't think it is right to question the insurgents anyway," he said. OK, so you're an accessory after the fact. Book him, Danno. But in some other northeast Indian states like Manipur, the rebels punish those who produce pornography. We hate competition! In the state of Manipur, some girls who acted in porn films were shot in the legs, as were the producers. [sigh] I suppose they'll go to snuff films next. Whatever happened to the good old days when they robbed banks or sold drugs? |
| Posted by:Jackal |
| #1 And here, all along, this is what I thought was going on in the Philipines with the MILF. |
| Posted by: Snese Uninesh2330 2005-08-27 17:25 |