http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15106778
29 September 2011 Last updated at 09:56 GMT
India abuse: Scores guilty of Dalit rape and torture
A court in southern India has convicted 269 police and forest
officials of torturing and abusing more than 100 low-caste Dalits
during a raid in 1992.
Officials went to the village of Vachathi in Tamil Nadu state looking
for smuggled sandalwood.
Over two days, 18 women were raped, more than 100 Dalits were abused
and their homes and cattle looted.
Seventeen officials were found guilty of rape and the rest were
convicted of "atrocities against Dalits".
Nearly 100 of those convicted are policemen. Of the 269 convicted, 54
died during the course of the trial.
The court is yet to pass sentences.
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