When
an unspeakable act of crime is committed on Dalit comes to the notice of FFEI,
we collect donations and handover the collected amount to the victims. If you
want to contribute to this fund, please write to me at Benjamin_kaila@yahoo.com for
details.
Please
read this startling facts:
This is only tip of an iceberg as a
majority of cases never reported due to the unsympathetic attitude of the
police, politicians, bureaucrats, and even the media.
Is
it a pigment of imagination of an insane mind? Is it conversion propaganda of
some Christian missionaries?
No,
it is a report submitted by the Govt. of India in its 2000 National Crime
Records Bureau, as reported in National
Geographic News.
Why
and how do Dalits, numbering 160 million, endure such a barbaric treatment in
their homeland? Why non Dalits subject their own countrymen to such a cruel
treatment with no feeling of guilt or remorse? One may agree or not, the answer
lies in the barbaric caste system with an authority derived from the Hindu
scriptures such as Vedas.
Caste
system that started some 3000 years ago in India is the mother of all
oppressive systems of the world. It is incomparable with American Slavery,
South African Apartheid, or German Jewish holocaust in intensity,
insensitivity, endurance, and longevity. It is a system devised to favor a few
at the cost of many. As Dr
Ambedkar said, it is a division of laborers rather than division of labor
as advocated by many defenders of caste system including Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
The
intensity of hate is so intense that even women, children, old, invalid, feeble
are not spared while committing these crimes, sometimes eliminating the whole
families, and villages in mass attacks. The faults of the Dalits for these
punishments are trying to save his/her land, or family; trying to get justice,
education, or dignity; or trying to ascertain their basic human rights. Cases
such as Karmachedu,
Tsudur, Khairanji,
Bant
Singh are a few glaring examples. At times, entire Dalit settlements are
torched and entire Dalit population of the settlement is punished to teach
lessons to all. Villages are the hotbeds for this type of atrocities though
cities are no exception.
There have been many Emmet
Tills, James Byrds everyday in India.
Please
read a few collection of atrocities (reported in the media) on Dalits here
Other
links:
Hearing
on caste based discrimination in India
Hidden apartheid (Human Rights Watch)