Case story of German Sanjenbam
Sanjenbam German Singh alias Noinoisana is a 15 years old double orphan from Uripok Tourangbam leikai, studying in class 8 at St. Savio School, Lamphel. His parents had died 10 years ago. His father was a drug user and later on both his parents became HIV positive and died. He too contacted the disease from his parents and was on ART treatment.
He was stigmatize, discriminated and tortured by his own near & dear ones, after the death of his parents he was living with his uncle & aunty. He was treated very badly and was made to do all the hard works including the daily household works. He was not provided proper food & clothing, they use to scold him and even beat him and was not allowed to mingle with other children in the family saying that he will spread HIV virus to other members of the family. He was blamed for every small thing, his aunty even spread the rumor that he had molested her daughter even use to hide and throw away his ART medicines. Her main intention was that if ART is not provided to him he will die soon and his parental property can be taken away by them.
After so much sufferings and torture in the hands of his uncle and aunt, he no longer could bear the physical torture and one day he ran away to his maternal grandmother’s house at Malom. He stayed there for few days, on 5th April 2010, his cousin brother (aunt’s son) and some other persons came to his maternal grandmother’s house and took him along with them on the charged of molesting her cousin sister, nobody knew about his whereabouts, on the next day morning of 7th April 2010 he was found brutally murdered, his face and head were smashed beyond recognition. There is a big suspicion that his uncle and aunty were directly involved in this brutal murder.
The incident of this Boy brought a huge outcry in the State of Manipur. Many NGO’s and other civil society organizations came out strongly against this brutal act and demanded that the culprits be booked and punished. On 19th of April 2010 a huge public rally was jointly organized by NGO’s working in the field of Drug and HIV/AIDS and submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister of Manipur for framing of state policy to protect the Right of Children living with HIV/AIDS.
Note: How an innocent child who has been on ART has been murdered mercilessly for the sake of some property/land by his own near and dear ones and who also showed/act as his care giver in the eyes of the society.
1 comment:
This is indeed a sad story. What happened to the culprits? Have they been brought to justice?
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