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     In separate videos being shared on popular messaging service WhatsApp, two women are filmed being gang-raped. Some of the six rapists are seen smiling for a cellphone camera during the horrific assaults.
    
     The videos, believed to be six months old, were discovered by Sunitha Krishnan, a women's rights activist who runs an NGO in Hyderabad. She uploaded the images onto YouTube yesterday, asking viewers to help identify the rapists. The footage has been removed today by YouTube, stating that "it violates terms of service."
    
     "Ten seconds into the video, I was overcome. I had to stop as I needed to throw up," she told NDTV. She said an acquaintance alerted her to the videos after receiving them on WhatsApp.
    
     Ms Krishnan was gang-raped by eight men when she was 15. "People don't come forward when it comes to helping in getting the perpetrators arrested," she said. Determined to try and change that, she asked her husband, a film-maker, to edit the video to protect the rape victim's identity and highlight the faces of the men who assaulted her.