Intersectional feminist Anjali Sah on Nepal’s pervasive rape culture and police apathy
Summary
Intersectional feminist activist Anjali Sah says the brutal killing of a three-year-old girl exposed deep police negligence, social bias and a broken justice system. She argues that Nepal’s response to child sexual exploitation, capital punishment demands and selective activism reveals a wider rape culture and institutional apathy.
Key Points
- Anjali Sah says police should have treated the missing-child report as an emergency, and the 24-hour delay was a systemic failure that helped lead to the girl’s death.
- She criticizes the recall of officers as superficial accountability and says Nepal’s police often act only after public outrage.
- Sah argues that capital punishment would likely harm marginalized people in a flawed justice system and says real reform requires better investigations and child-sensitive policing.
- She says rape culture, social media, and selective activism shape public outrage differently depending on the victim’s identity or the accused’s status.
