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At one in the morning, five men burst through the door of the family's mud-brick home in the village of Nizampur in southern Punjab. They identified themselves as police and said they were searching for weapons. One held a pistol to the mother’s chest while another pinned her nine-year-old brother, Rizwan, to the floor. And then two men held 16 year-old Najma down on the bed while a third raped her. The family recognized the assailants and went to the police the next morning. Najma was examined by a doctor, who submitted a medical report confirming the rape. But the local police, who are of the same clan as the constable, refused to file charges. Incensed, the family hired an attorney who appealed to officials in the nearby town of Khanewal. Officials there concluded that the police constable was incapable of committing such a crime. The case was closed. What will happen to the family? "If they don't leave immediately, they will be in danger. The constable could send men to rape the other sister, or to rape Najma again. Or he might kill them all, to make an example of them or to punish them for going to the police." The father speaks. "When government fails them, people get angry. They lose faith in the system and look for alternatives. Think how easy it would be for the Islamists—or Taliban or al Qaeda—to go to the brothers of this girl now and say, 'What happened to your family is not justice. This man dishonored your sister; he dishonored your father and your family name. Join us and we will help you get justice. We will make him pay.' When citizens are denied their basic human rights, they become radicalized. When people are powerless, they are easily manipulated.”
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