“The situation in the Northeast is a basic violation of human rights and rape is being used as a violent way of cracking down on people’s movements by desperate state. Here the message to the underground movement is that unless you surrender, we will continue to rape your wives, mothers and daughters. Under the guise of patriotism, discipline and sacrifice, the Indian Army is guilty of the one of the worst crimes against women. Rape has been used as a political weapon by the Indian state.”