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Hello! I am Rita BanerjiFounder ofThe 50 Million MissingCampaign

www.50millionmissing.info

AN ONLINE CAMPAIGN TO RAISE GLOBAL AWARENESS ABOUT INDIAS ONGOING FEMALE GENOCIDE

In 3 generations more than 50 million women have been systematically exterminated from Indias population ____________________________________________ Thats equal to the populations of Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Portugal put together____________________________________________

This is a targeted and mass annihilation of a group for one reason only because they are FEMALE

See 'The 50 million missing women,' in Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, vol. 19, no. 9 (September 2002):41116

HOW WERE 50 MILLION WOMEN EXTERMINATED FROM INDIAS POPULATION?

Millions were eliminated through sex-selective abortions since the 1970s.

However millions of girls and women have been killed after birth in India only because of their gender Killings that Diana Russell has called FEMICIDES.

TOP SIX CAUSES OF FEMICIDE IN INDIA Female Infanticide (1-year and under) Killing of girls 5 years and under through starvation and violenceKilling of women through repeated and forced abortions Dowry related Murders Honor KillingsWitch Lynching

Karishmas Attempted Murder:

From The 50 Million Missing Campaigns Case File

attempt to kill her by traditional method used in Bengal of putting salt in the mouth;

she was deliberately starved, dangerously underweight,

she was often beaten unconscious

At age 2 years, she was un-named. I named her Karishma meaning miracle