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UNTOUCHABILITY
AND ATROCITIES
some uncomfortable questions
Even in
the Third Millennium, Untouchability against SCs&STs are being Practiced in
this Country. And
Crimes against SC&ST Dalits, to Enforce Untouchability, and Exploit the Untouchables are not
abating, but are only Growing. Why? There is No
Point in asking others or the Govts.
Govts will
only conduct some Studies, Fund some Research by some NGOs, or Finance the
Academicians of some Big Institutions, all of whom keep Practicing Untouchability Openly, and Committing many Grievous
Atrocities on SCs&STs. Their Refusal to Admit SC&ST Dalit Students on some ground or the other, Provide
Scholarships and Fellowships on one pretext or other, not Teach and Guide the
SC&ST Dalit Students and Scholars properly,
Throwing the SC&ST Dalit Students somehow or the
other – aren’t they Atrocities. If they
are Not Atrocities, what are they? What
can anyone call them, or say about them?
Atrocities
are being committed now freely, after fine tuning them
in the Cities also, including in the
In
Response to the Continuing Growing Increasing and Criminalised Violences against SC&ST Dalits,
what have the Govts Parliament and Courts done all
these Six Decades? Practically
Nothing!
Studies
Research, are all meaningless, for things that are
obvious, well-known to everyone, and are Daily Bitter Occurrences. One don’t Need a
Mirror, to Look at the Injuries on the Finger.
May be some Academician will use a Microscope to see the Injury. And an NGO may even
go for a Telescope to see them. hence they are all of No Use. Therefore we have to
ask ourselves, search our hearts, and Answer Honestly.
Untouchability is an
ongoing Occurrence, everywhere and every moment of our Lives. Untouchability
based Atrocities is a Regular Phenomena.
There is
No Point in Collecting Statistics to Quantify them as happening every Minute,
No of Cases every hour, and No of Deaths everyday.
They are mostly not Correct or Complete. And they are never
going to be Rightly or Productively Used.
Crime Pain Humiliation Death Rape or Violation of Dignity, and the
Ignominy of having to Live with Disgrace can not be
Quantified Assessed Valued Priced or Compensated, and should never be reduced
to cold cruel Statistics in Police Stations and Govt Records.
We just don’t believe the Correctness of the available Statistics
and their Utility and Usefulness. In fact these
in the First Place, these are Insulting.
Second, they are not Honestly Collected, Truthfully Compiled and Timely
Reported. Nothing happens to these
Statistics. Nor do the Police honestly
and sincerely Prosecute the Perpetrators. Never do the Courts Punish the
Criminals. Never do they give Quick
Exemplary Punishments. Rarely does the Govts Intervene to Ensure Justice is Done.
So many
of us are being maimed and killed everyday. Have defended ourselves, fought, and felled
any of our killers, before we fell down dying?
So many
of our Girls Women and even married old ones are raped and
killed regularly. And more than that many are kept or regularly violated and
used by the caste hindu feudal elements, landlords
the rich and the powerful. while it is well known that many brahmins
use their pretty young smart girls and charming bold women, to influence the
Prime Ministers, many Central Ministers and Leaders, most of the Chief
Ministers, State Ministers and Political Leaders, to get things done for their
communities that a Powerful Chief Minister, had even publicly spoken about the
pretty female brigades and armies of the brahmins. And when it is a fact that brahmin women and caste hindu
girls, have been controlling and dictating terms to many Foreign and Indian
Christian Priests and Pastors for the benefit of their castes and hindu communities, have any one of the good looking
SC&ST Girls and Women, who are being criminally and so freely exploited by
the caste hindus, have any control or exercise any
influence over their oppressors, to help their Communities in any way?
If we as a Community, and our boys and men as the main
force of our castes, our girls and women oppressed an d exploited even today,
and our leaders politicians and political parties as the Sentinels and
Guardians fail us even in the twenty-first Century; and we all still take these
lying down in spite six decades of Democracy and Elections even if they were
Ritualistic, who can really help us ever?
And why our Oppressors, not merrily practice Untouchability, and carry on with their Exploitations and
Atrocities?
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Note –
* A Compilation of the Discussions in the Meeting of NGOs
Organised by dalitindia of