US says ‘shocked, horrified’ by video of extreme attack on two women in Manipur

Reacting to the viral video of Manipur women which sent shockwaves across the nation, the US said it was "shocked and horrified" while adding that it supported the Indian Government’s efforts to seek justice for them, a senior Biden administration official has said. The video showed two women being paraded naked and molested by a group of men on May 4 and went viral when it surfaced on social media on July 19, triggering massive outrage.

“We were shocked and horrified by the video of this extreme attack on two women in Manipur. We convey our profound sympathies to the survivors of this act of gender-based violence and support the Indian Government’s efforts to seek justice for them,” Vedant Patel, Deputy Spokesperson of the State DepartmentState DepartmentState Department, told reporters at his daily news conference on Tuesday.

Patel was responding to a question asked by a Pakistani reporter on the violence in Manipur. Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself noted that such violence against women is shameful in any civilised society, Patel said.