15 year old untouchable burned to death for accusing high caste man of rape

This is the kind of thing we might once have said happens over there, but nothing like this could ever happen here. It didn't, at least not yet, but there are plenty of other atrocities we comit here that compete with it for infamy.

Asha Katiya was 15 years old. When she was raped she did not, like many Indian women, try to hide it for shame. She went to the police and registered a case against her attacker. She later said he had threatened to kill her unless she dropped the case. This week she was burned to death. A man broke into her house while she was sleeping and poured kerosene over her. The man she accused of raping her has been detained in connection with her death.

But there has been no outcry in India. The case has been barely reported. Because Asha Katiya was a Dalit, a member of the former Untouchable caste, and India has become used to outrages like this being carried out against Dalits.