please act now against Dalit atrocity in Khagaria.

[RazPaK]

WTF? Animals, no worse than Animals.

 

[Omar1984]

Not many moved by the plight of Dalit woman in Maharashtra?


New Delhi: In Maharashtra, political parties may be sparring for a land for a memorial of Babasaheb Ambedkar but not too many moved by the plight of a Dalit woman who was assaulted and paraded naked at Mulgaon village in Satara, all because her son eloped with a girl from a higher caste.

After she was stripped, paraded naked and beaten mercilessly by lathis, this Dalit Woman in the district hospital of Maharashtra's Karad says she is terrified of returning to her village.

Weeks after Rekha Chavan was assaulted and humiliated, her attackers roam free. Rekha is guilty of allowing her son, a Dalit elope with an girl from the upper caste.

In election season as politicians across party lines woo the Dalit voter, on the ground very little has changed.
RR Patil, Home Minsiter, Maharashtra, said, "Enquiry has been ordered. Strict action will be taken. I will not allow atrocities on Dalits."

It was in Satara district that a young Ambedkar faced humiliating experiences on account of his caste. Experiences that made him think of unaccountability that influenced his life. Decades later it appears nothing has changed as Rekha chavan from the very same Satar district will tell you. Agitating for land to build a memorial for Babsaheb Ambedkar ahead of elections will not change that.

Not many moved by the plight of Dalit woman in Maharashtra? - India News - IBNLive

 

[Omar1984]

Laxmanrao Dhoble justifies Satara Dalit’s stripping

Four days after a Dalit woman was allegedly stripped and beaten by members of an upper caste family in Mulgaon village in Satara district, Laxmanrao Dhoble, NCP leader and minister for water supply and sanitation, tried to justify the incident saying that “the anger of the family was natural”.

Upset with the comment, members of the Dalit Mahasangh burned an effigy of Dhoble outside Krishna Charitable Hospital in Karad where the 42-year-old widow was being treated.

In December 2011, the widow’s 21-year old-son eloped with his 18-year-old girlfriend, who is from the Maratha community. The girl’s father, Kishan Desai, kept inquiring with the widow, who belongs to the scheduled caste Matang community, about the whereabouts of her son.

On January 9, about 15 members of the Desai family approached the victim while she was fetching water from the village well. The Dalit Mahasangh claims that the woman beaten with shoes, stones and sticks, stripped, dragged through the village and tied to a tree.

On Friday morning, after visiting the widow, the minister told the media that the incident has been exaggerated.

Dhoble said the woman had been living in the village for two decades without any issue. “The outburst of the girl’s family is natural. The facts are being twisted in this matter, creating environment of suspicion,” Dhoble said.

While five members of the Desai family have been arrested, the state government has ordered an inquiry in this matter.


Laxmanrao Dhoble justifies Satara Dalit’s stripping - Mumbai - DNA

---------- Post added at 05:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:25 PM ----------

Age-old prejudice

India does not live in the 20th century any more but some old practices refuse to go away. The attack on a Dalit woman — beaten, stripped and paraded naked by persons belonging to an upper caste — in the Mulgaon village of Satara, Maharashtra, is reflective of the centuries' old misuse of power by the so-called elite.

The atrocity on the 42-year-old Dalit woman is another instance of a person bearing the brunt of the so-called upper crust of society for being poor, marginalised, and belonging to the lower rung of the social hierarchy. The refusal of the police to entertain her complaint is shocking. Our governments need to ensure the safety of all sections, and take stringent action against officials who treat citizens unequally.

Manzar Imam,

New Delhi

The inhuman act in Mulgaon is a shame on all Indians. In a country where people talk about development and globalisation, a poor Dalit woman gets beaten up and humiliated in broad daylight for no mistake of hers, and nothing is done to stop the perpetrators. Such incidents show how weak our democracy is. Besides taking strict action against the culprits, we, as Indians, should stand up against such cruelty.

Y. Ambrin Suhel,

Bangalore

We have been reading such news with depressing regularity in recent times. They are common across India. I wonder why the so-called upper castes nurture so much hatred towards their fellow countrymen just because they are Dalits. All is not well here.

Dhammaprakash P. Wankhede,

New Delhi


The Hindu : Opinion / Letters : Age-old prejudice

 

[Omar1984]

The entire village watched silently

January 14, 2012 By Praveen Kumar

The place inside the house of Govindaraju where Suvarna (inset) was forced to hang herself to death by her own father.

“No one came to Suvarna's rescue. We were the only three women who saw the entire honour killing. "There were around 10 men, including her father beating her and finally hanging her to death. The entire village watched silently,” recalled 70-year-old Tholasamma, Govindaraju's mother and his sister-in-law Thayamma.

Tholasamma and her two daughters-in-law, Thayamma and Mangala Gowri, are the main eye witnesses to the honour killing.

“Suvarna kept requesting her father and others to spare her and allow her to go away from the village with Govindaraju. But they only told her she deserved to be killed as she had brought dishonour to their caste by falling in love with a lower caste youth,” said Tholasamma and Thayamma. The three women ran out of the house with the children fearing that they too would be killed. "

Till date, we do not know where our father-in-law is. Mangala Gowri is taking shelter elsewhere and we have no news about her.My two small children, including a two-year-old, are staying at different places. It has been several days since I have seen them,” added Thayamma, recalling that she had advised Govindaraju to forget Suvarna because of their caste differences.

“He had even left the village two months before the incident. But the girl was not ready to live withou him although she was engaged to someone else. More than the relationship between the two, what mattered to Suvarna’s father was their caste,” she said disdainfully. Her own life has clearly turned upside down since the incident.

I have never seen anyone being killed this way

“I will never ever return to my village where Suvarna was killed in the most barbaric way by her father and others,” said 27-year-old Govindaraju, also called Gundda , pouring his heart out to Deccan Chronicle on Thursday.

The location of the meeting will be kept a secret on his request as he believes his life too is under threat from Suvarna's father and family.

Govindaraju belongs to the Madiga caste, considered the most oppressed and exploited. Suvarna, who did not care that he belonged to a lower caste while she herself was a Vokkaliga, was in love with him for five years. Although this did not go down well with her family, the couple never dreamed their love affair would meet such a gruesome end.

“Even in the most violent of films I have never come across any person being killed the way Suvarna was. She was dragged by her legs on the concrete road and beaten with wooden logs. She was brought to my house and asked to commit suicide by hanging. When she did not, she was killed by hanging. How can any father kill his daughter this way? I want these people to be punished for Suvarna’s soul to rest in peace. Like all other lovers, we were in love. I agree that we belonged to different castes. But what has her father gained by killing his daughter,” he lamented.

“Had the police acted fast on November 6, when Suvarna was being murdered, she would be alive today. My brother, K Thimappa, had rushed to the Koppa police station and informed the police about the tension in our village while Suvarna and I were being beaten. If the police had reacted fast, she would not have been killed,” he maintained.

Although he managed to escape through the sugarcane fields behind his house, he found it difficult to run as he was badly beaten.

“I had to drag on till I found a lorry transporting sugarcane. I reached the main road with the help of the driver and from there I came to my relative’s house on the outskirts of Bengaluru. If I had not escaped, I too would have been killed the same day,” he shuddered, unwilling to emerge from hiding as he is certain that will be as good as signing his own death warrant.

The entire village watched silently | Deccan Chronicle

 

[Omar1984]

Atrocities on Dalit women go unpunished: Gujarat NGO

If it is a crime to be born a woman in society, it is a bigger crime to be born a Dalit woman. This, at least, is what a study by human rights organisation, Navsarjan Trust, says.

While women are normally considered to be vulnerable to atrocities, women belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) are more prone to various crimes. The study shows that it is more difficult for Dalits to get justice in the court of law for their traumatic sufferings. The study indicates that in the cases of violence by non-Dalits on Dalit women, no non-Dalit accused have been convicted so far, and in cases of violence by Dalits on Dalit women, there have been convictions only in six cases.

The study, 'Gender-Violence and Access to Justice for the Dalit Woman: Final Report December 2011', was undertaken by Navsarjan Trust in collaboration with Minority Rights Group International, London. It was focused on three districts of Rajkot, Kutch and Bhavnagar. It covers the atrocities cases on Dalit women registered from 2004 to 2009.

The data was collected by filing RTI applications with district superintendents of police. Pointing towards the non-serious attitude of police stations towards Dalit women facing atrocity, the report says: “A low percentage of police stations responded to the request in spite of fines that may be levied for non-compliance with the RTI Act. Data was received from 41% of police stations for non-Dalit on Dalit crime, 44% of police stations for Dalit on Dalit crime, and 49% of police stations submitted Accidental/Unnatural Deaths data, from all three districts.”

Surprisingly, whatever data was received for the study shows a more gloomy picture of delivery ofjustice to the victims. Of 889 registered cases —185 cases of violence by non-Dalits and 704 cases of violence by Dalits, only 6 cases (or 0.7% of the total) resulted in conviction of the accused.

The report says, “Also significant is the absence of even one conviction of a non-Dalit accused. Given that 50.27% of crimes by non-Dalits on Dalits were of a grievous nature — cases that resulted in death or grave physical injury to the woman — not one case has ended in a conviction.Further, a full 50.5% of all cases remain pending in the sessions' court. And the police stations did not provide any information on the status of 32.7% of cases filed. In other words, only 17% of all cases have reached court settlement or judgment.

Talking about the study, Majula Pradeep, of Navsarjan, said: “Non-Dalit accused often walk free from the cases because of political and social clout they have. For instance, in Bhavnagar, a majority of police personnel belong to a particular caste, so they don't take seriously the complaints made by Dalit women. We will be submitting our report to state government departments, advocating for the rights of the Dalit women.”


Atrocities on Dalit women go unpunished: Gujarat NGO - India - DNA

 

[Windjammer]

International aid agencies in India have been horrified to find, even amid the suffering caused by the tsunami, some survivors being refused access to basic relief because they are considered "Untouchables".

International aid agencies in India have been horrified to find, even amid the suffering caused by the tsunami, some survivors being refused access to basic relief because they are considered "Untouchables".

Accounts have emerged of members of the former Untouchable castes not being allowed to drink clean water from a tank provided by Unicef because other castes believed it would pollute the water in the tank. Dalits, as the former Untouchables are known today, have been thrown out of government relief camps by the other survivors staying there.

Even as people around the world have sent aid donations to tsunami survivors, members of higher castes have prevented the Dalits from using basic relief supplies, and the Indian government has been accused of not doing enough to prevent this injustice.

Dalit children were not even allowed to use the basic open latrines at relief camps, according to Janyala Srinivas, a reporter for The Indian Express. Dalits at one camp who asked for some of the food supplies intended for everyone that the fishermen were hoarding were thrown out and had to spend the rest of the night in the road.

In many areas it was reportedly the Dalits who had to dispose of the bodies of the dead because high-caste Hindus feared they would be polluted if they handled the corpses.

Ashok Bharti, a campaigner who helps to co-ordinateDalit organisations, said: "They want us to clear out their dead bodies and faeces but when it comes to accepting relief they want to ensure that we are nowhere around, simply because they cannot stomach the idea of sharing anything with us."

An international relief worker said: "I'm afraid this comes as no surprise. This problem existed long before the tsunami. I remember stories of Dalits being killed because of some rumour they had killed a cow."

Untouchability was made illegal in India after independence. But, decades after Mahatma Gandhi told his followers that he "would far rather Hinduism died than untouchability lived", the practice is still widely followed all over India, and Dalits face daily persecution from birth until death.

Even as Dalits were being denied tsunami aid in Tamil Nadu, at the other end of India three Dalit youths - the youngest a boy of 12 - were forced to drink urine by upper-caste landlords. The landlords urinated in the youths' shoes, then forced them to drink it, because a Dalit boy had been in a fight at school with a boy from a higher caste.

The persecution of Dalit tsunami survivors has been mostly at the hands of other survivors, fishermen from the slightly higher Meenavar caste, the community in mainland India hit worst by the tsunami. Most of the Dalits in the affected area are either subsistence farmers or make their living on the fringes of the fishing industry, carrying heavy loads of fish from boats or selling them in the market. The farmers are ruined: their fields are waterlogged with salt water which will wreck the soil, their livestock drowned. The fishing industry has halted, leaving those who work in it penniless.

The situation was worst in the immediate aftermath, when all homeless survivors were put together in the same relief camps, according to Vincent Manoharan of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, which has tried to highlight the discrimination. "Now the government is a little more responsive, since we highlighted this," said Mr Manoharan. The Tamil Nadu state government set up separate relief camps for Dalits and other survivors - the only way it could ensure the Dalits were not abused.

Now the survivors have returned to their towns and villages, where temporary housing is being built for them, so the relief camps are no longer a problem. But Mr Manoharan said aid to the Dalits was still being blocked. "Where the Dalit community lives close to the fisherpeople, the aid is not getting through to them. When an NGO vehicle tries to drive to the Dalit area, the fisherpeople stop it and say, 'Where are you going? We need aid here.' They take the aid and say they will distribute it, but they only give the worst things to the Dalits."

Mr Manoharan says he has reports of this happening in Vanagri and Tranquear, both in Nagapattinam district, and in some of the villages of Pondicherry. He also says the government is not being even-handed in its own aid efforts. "The speed at which they're restoring power and laying roads to Dalit areas is not the same as they're doing it for the fisherpeople," he says. "Tamil Nadu has applied to the central government for 48 billion rupees [£590m] of emergency aid, but only 130 million rupees is for non-fishing communities like the Dalits."

The Tamil Nadu government contends that the fishermen have been worst affected. And it is true that their community suffered by far the most deaths - about 10,000, while 100 Dalits are confirmed dead and another 500 missing. But Mr Manoharan says the majority of the Dalits have lost their livelihood, and unlike the fishermen, many of whom have assets such as boats which can be repaired, the Dalits live on subsistence incomes and have nothing to fall back on.
'Untouchable' caste find themselves deprived of tsunami aid - Asia - World - The Independent

 

[Indian Tiger]

International aid agencies in India have been horrified to find, even amid the suffering caused by the tsunami, some survivors being refused access to basic relief because they are considered "Untouchables".

International aid agencies in India have been horrified to find, even amid the suffering caused by the tsunami, some survivors being refused access to basic relief because they are considered "Untouchables".

Accounts have emerged of members of the former Untouchable castes not being allowed to drink clean water from a tank provided by Unicef because other castes believed it would pollute the water in the tank. Dalits, as the former Untouchables are known today, have been thrown out of government relief camps by the other survivors staying there.

Even as people around the world have sent aid donations to tsunami survivors, members of higher castes have prevented the Dalits from using basic relief supplies, and the Indian government has been accused of not doing enough to prevent this injustice.

Dalit children were not even allowed to use the basic open latrines at relief camps, according to Janyala Srinivas, a reporter for The Indian Express. Dalits at one camp who asked for some of the food supplies intended for everyone that the fishermen were hoarding were thrown out and had to spend the rest of the night in the road.

In many areas it was reportedly the Dalits who had to dispose of the bodies of the dead because high-caste Hindus feared they would be polluted if they handled the corpses.

Ashok Bharti, a campaigner who helps to co-ordinateDalit organisations, said: "They want us to clear out their dead bodies and faeces but when it comes to accepting relief they want to ensure that we are nowhere around, simply because they cannot stomach the idea of sharing anything with us."

An international relief worker said: "I'm afraid this comes as no surprise. This problem existed long before the tsunami. I remember stories of Dalits being killed because of some rumour they had killed a cow."

Untouchability was made illegal in India after independence. But, decades after Mahatma Gandhi told his followers that he "would far rather Hinduism died than untouchability lived", the practice is still widely followed all over India, and Dalits face daily persecution from birth until death.

Even as Dalits were being denied tsunami aid in Tamil Nadu, at the other end of India three Dalit youths - the youngest a boy of 12 - were forced to drink urine by upper-caste landlords. The landlords urinated in the youths' shoes, then forced them to drink it, because a Dalit boy had been in a fight at school with a boy from a higher caste.

The persecution of Dalit tsunami survivors has been mostly at the hands of other survivors, fishermen from the slightly higher Meenavar caste, the community in mainland India hit worst by the tsunami. Most of the Dalits in the affected area are either subsistence farmers or make their living on the fringes of the fishing industry, carrying heavy loads of fish from boats or selling them in the market. The farmers are ruined: their fields are waterlogged with salt water which will wreck the soil, their livestock drowned. The fishing industry has halted, leaving those who work in it penniless.

The situation was worst in the immediate aftermath, when all homeless survivors were put together in the same relief camps, according to Vincent Manoharan of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights, which has tried to highlight the discrimination. "Now the government is a little more responsive, since we highlighted this," said Mr Manoharan. The Tamil Nadu state government set up separate relief camps for Dalits and other survivors - the only way it could ensure the Dalits were not abused.

Now the survivors have returned to their towns and villages, where temporary housing is being built for them, so the relief camps are no longer a problem. But Mr Manoharan said aid to the Dalits was still being blocked. "Where the Dalit community lives close to the fisherpeople, the aid is not getting through to them. When an NGO vehicle tries to drive to the Dalit area, the fisherpeople stop it and say, 'Where are you going? We need aid here.' They take the aid and say they will distribute it, but they only give the worst things to the Dalits."

Mr Manoharan says he has reports of this happening in Vanagri and Tranquear, both in Nagapattinam district, and in some of the villages of Pondicherry. He also says the government is not being even-handed in its own aid efforts. "The speed at which they're restoring power and laying roads to Dalit areas is not the same as they're doing it for the fisherpeople," he says. "Tamil Nadu has applied to the central government for 48 billion rupees [£590m] of emergency aid, but only 130 million rupees is for non-fishing communities like the Dalits."

The Tamil Nadu government contends that the fishermen have been worst affected. And it is true that their community suffered by far the most deaths - about 10,000, while 100 Dalits are confirmed dead and another 500 missing. But Mr Manoharan says the majority of the Dalits have lost their livelihood, and unlike the fishermen, many of whom have assets such as boats which can be repaired, the Dalits live on subsistence incomes and have nothing to fall back on.
'Untouchable' caste find themselves deprived of tsunami aid - Asia - World - The Independent

For the bold part... Even i am from Tamil Nadu and belongs to a backward community. The Relief was denied to all the people after few people.

A very hyped news, just show that dalits are discriminated in Tamil Nadu.

In this world good is not existing alone. In this world no one can say a country which don't have discrimination. can you?

In India discrimination exists in the name of caste Dalit vs High caste. some where in the name of colour black vs white. some where in the name of religion sunny vs shia. All over the world discrimination exists, atleast there will discrimination in the form of Poor and Rich.

No country is an angel to blame India on this.

Citizen of Any country who don't have discrimination in their country can feel free to oppose me.

 

[WAR-rior]

WTF? Animals, no worse than Animals.

can anyone find out what did she do ?

 

[WAR-rior]

Even as Dalits were being denied tsunami aid in Tamil Nadu, at the other end of India three Dalit youths - the youngest a boy of 12 - were forced to drink urine by upper-caste landlords. The landlords urinated in the youths' shoes, then forced them to drink it, because a Dalit boy had been in a fight at school with a boy from a higher caste.

arre yaar, why dont you guyz try to think logical ? even if the boy wasnt from lower caste and wud have been a socially weak person, he wud have been made to do the same. i mean you should argue that dalits are not given social equality but saying that a dalit was made to drink urine and all is like taking part for a whole. infact even a non dalit boy wud have been made to do the same by a socially and economically powerful person. such acts do happen in rural india.

 

[Indian Tiger]

Retards exist everywhere in this world. Don't forget to remember this,we as a country still following the Constitution of Democracy and the Law, which was created by a great Dalit Leader DR.B.R.Ambedkar for more than 60years.

 

[WAR-rior]

well guyz. india during independence did intended to fight against casteism. some reason why dr. ambedkar was given the burden to write the whole constitution. his caste wasnt accounted but his supreme knowledge bout law was.

but i dont understand why pakistanis cant understand that millenia old tradition cant be eradicated in 1 century no matter how clean your intensions are. pakistani itself is witness to this. your landlordism still is a nonvanishing issue tough its 10000 times simpler than a complex issue of caste. now why you guyz tend to get selective hypocrits.

 

[EndoClock]

Force revolution is the only answer for the poor people to gain justice in India. The establishment are all covering each other's *** to remain in power.

 

[Roybot]

Force revolution is the only answer for the poor people to gain justice in India. The establishment are all covering each other's *** to remain in power.

First in Iran

 

[Roybot]

As I said earlier, the incident mentioned in OP, has nothing to do with dalits being persecuted. Its land related conflict. These so called dalits gunned down 16 people belonging to Other backward castes in 2009, including children.

Sixteen people, including four children, belonging to backward classes were dragged out of their huts, tied and gunned down in Bihar’s Khagaria district past midnight Thursday. Police said it was a fallout of an old dispute between the OBC Kurmis-Koeris and the Mahadalit Musahars over riverine land.

The incident occurred past midnight at Amausi Bahiyar diara, which can only be reached by crossing the rivers Kareh and Kosi, from Amba Icharua village, 175 km east of Patna.

Villagers said 16 of the 17 people guarding an urad crop over 500 acres of the diara were shot dead by over 50 armed men, allegedly assisted by the Sadas (Musahars) of Amausi, the nearest village situated across the Kosi. Of the 16 dead, 14 were Kurmis and two Koeris.

Caste massacre in Bihar tests Nitish’s base - Indian Express

 

[SinoChallenger]

Force revolution is the only answer for the poor people to gain justice in India. The establishment are all covering each other's *** to remain in power.

If india fights another border conflict with China and loses, the poor would surely all revolt!