Author: Santosh Mishra
Publication: Mumbai Mirror
Date: December 25, 2008
URL: http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/15/20081225200812250225081731635eb98/Terrorists-sexually-Humiliated-guests-before-killing-them
Foreign nationals at the Taj were particular
targets of barbaric terrorists who first forced some of the guests to strip,
then killed them
Disturbing photographs made available to this
newspapers by police sources indicate that several of the guests at the Taj
Mahal Hotel during the siege November 26 were sexually humiliated by the terrorists
and then shot dead.
Police sources confirm that even as the terrorists
were engaged in a fierce combat with NSG commandos, they were humiliating
their hostages before ending their terrifying ordeal.
Foreign guests were their particular target.
Eight of the 31 killed at the Taj were foreign nationals.
Photographs taken by a police forensic team
after the hotel was sanitised yield a gruesome picture of some of the guests
in the nude.
These bodies were found away from the hotel's
swimming pool which makes it clear that they were not those guests who were
taken hostage from the poolside.
"Even the Rabbi and his wife at Nariman
House were sexually assaulted and their genitalia mutilated," said a
senior officer of the investigating team, not wishing to be quoted.
"We have CCTV footage which reveals how
these terrorists forced some of the guests who were holed up in restuarants
to strip, but there is not evidence of rape," he added.
These pictures, most of which we have refrained
from printing, are in the records of the police and are now part of the investigation.