A district in northern Bangladesh has offered karate training to all female school and college pupils following a spate of suicides and killings due to bullying, officials said last week.
Learning the Japanese martial art would make girls more able to protect themselves, said Bazlul Karim, head of Tangail district administration.
“They need to be strong to tackle the menace of bullying,” he told AFP.
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Local police chief Mizanur Rahman said sports teachers and police instructors would run the program.
“The response from the girls and their guardians has been very positive,” Rahman said, adding the police have also set up a 24-hour “text-message hotline” for bullying victims to report abuse and receive specialized help.
Since coming to power in December 2008 the Awami League government has launched a major crackdown on sexual harassment, particularly in schools, including stationing undercover police in playgrounds to arrest bullies.
The Tangail district’s measures follow the deaths of three people across Bangladesh this month in bullying-related incidents, bringing the total number of deaths to 36 this year, according to police statistics.
Last week a 15-year-old Hindu girl committed suicide after she was kidnapped by a stalker who locked her up and rubbed vermilion on her forehead — a mark of marriage according to Hinduism.
A 50-year-old woman died after stalkers drove a motorcycle over her when she protested the bullying of her daughter last month. A college teacher who intervened in a bullying incident was also brutally murdered last week. (AFP)
孟加拉官方上週表示，北部某區當局在女性學生遭罷凌，接二連三地發生自殺與殺人事件後，給小學與中學所有女學生提供空手道課程。
坦蓋爾村行政首長巴茲魯爾‧卡利姆說，學習這一項日本武術將使女性更有能力保護自己。
他告訴法新社說，「她們身體得強壯才能對付別人的欺負。」
當地警長米咱努爾‧拉荷曼說，體育老師與警察教官將主持這項計畫。
拉荷曼表示，「女孩子們以及她們的監護人回應都非常正面。」他又補充說，警方也建立起一套二十四小時全天候的「簡訊熱線」，讓遭罷凌的受害者得以報案，並獲得特殊協助。
自從人民聯盟於二零零八年執政以來，政府大力討伐性騷擾，特別是在校園裡，並且警方也在遊戲場所派駐警員臥底，以逮捕罷凌者。
根據警方數據顯示，坦蓋爾村當局正在追蹤孟加拉境內三起本月與罷凌有關聯的死亡事件，這三起事件使得今年同類型死亡人數到達三十六人。
上週一位十五歲的印度少女在遭到不肖跟蹤者綁架、監禁，並於額頭塗上硃砂─此舉根據印度教代表女性已婚─之後自殺。
另一位五十歲的女性上個月抗議女兒遭罷凌後，也被不肖跟蹤者以摩拓車撞倒輾死。
（法新社／翻譯：吳岱璟）
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