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Dalits Media watch

News Updates 28..04.10

Fishermen, Dalits clash; eight injured - The Hindu

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/28/stories/2010042861070600.htm

Panel takes up issues on welfare of SCs - The Hindu

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/28/stories/2010042854000500.htm

Mirchpur: Attackers targeted dalit wealth - The Times Of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mirchpur-Attackers-targeted-dalit-wealth/articleshow/5866066.cms

The Hindu

Fishermen, Dalits clash; eight injured

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/28/stories/2010042861070600.htm

Correspondent

MAHABUBNAGAR: Eight persons were injured, four of them critically, when two groups of Dalits and fishermen clashed over sale of fish at Rajoli village in Vaddepally mandal in the district on Tuesday.

According to information, trouble started when Dalits demanded that fishermen sell fish at a lesser rate to them. The demand was refused by the fishermen which lead to heated arguments and eventually to a clash. They beat each other with sticks and hunting sickles.

The injured were shifted to Kurnool hospital.

DSP, Gadwal, Mahesh, and Circle Inspector Narayana rushed to the village and brought the situation under control.

Police picket was posted in the village.

The Hindu

Panel takes up issues on welfare of SCs

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/28/stories/2010042854000500.htm

Special Correspondent

Bangalore: National Commission for Scheduled Castes Vice-Chairman N.M. Kamble and other members of the commission on Tuesday held a detailed discussion with MPs, MLAs, MLCs and leaders of Dalit organisations here on issues related to the welfare of Scheduled Castes in the State.

Prof. Kamble discussed problems faced by Scheduled Castes employees in the State. The commission also held a meeting with Social Welfare Minister D. Sudhakar and senior officers of the Government and discussed socio-economic condition of Scheduled Castes.

On Wednesday, the commission members would discus issues related to atrocities on Scheduled Castes and their safety and well being, said a press note.

Speaking to presspersons, Leader of the Opposition in the Council Motamma urged the State Government to reserve 100 engineering and 500 medical seats for Scheduled Castes students. She also demanded waiver of loans borrowed by Scheduled Castes from Karnataka Ambedkar Development Corporation.

The Times Of India

Mirchpur: Attackers targeted dalit wealth

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mirchpur-Attackers-targeted-dalit-wealth/articleshow/5866066.cms

Nandita Sengupta, TNN, Apr 28, 2010, 04.31am IST

NEW DELHI: The Mirchpur arson was as much about caste as class. A fact-finding team on a visit last Saturday to Haryana's Mirchpur village, where two dalits were burned to death and 18 houses gutted, reports that the arson wasn't arbitrary.

The attackers, allegedly from the Jat community, identified houses of the more well-off among the Balmiki community and set them on fire. A beauty parlour, kirana stores and a barber-shop were totally gutted, an obvious attempt to cower dalit prosperity, however limited.

"Any semblance of status symbol was attacked," said journalist Bhasha Singh, houses with motorbikes, televisions, fridges. And shops that dalits ran. "The mood in the village was that dalits 'need to be taught a lesson'." The first thing the mob did, a woman reported, "was to break the Sintex water tanks provided by the government, so we had no way of dousing the fire."

The traumatized villagers also complained of flashers among the attackers.

Located in Hissar district, Mirchpur has a handful of dalits: about 100 Balmiki families, 350 'Jatav' families and 50 Doms to the 1700-odd Jat families. The team found that growing economic prosperity among a section of the minority dalits seemed to be the root cause this time around.

The Jats' hate campaign got sharpened two years ago when a dalit won a bid to manage the region's biggest temple festival, the Phoolan Devi fest, and repeated the feat last year as well.

The enterprising Balmiki community youth, Dharamvir, deposited Rs 50,000 this year too with the village panchayat for the same. "We heard comments such as 'how can he get so much money'? 'He has so much money, why call him a dalit'?" says Umakant, an activist in the team. The vitriol was obvious, the lack of remorse stark.

Three days after the attack, the team of activists from NGOs National Campaign on dalit Human Rights and Anhad along with journalists, reached the village to find a mahakhap Jat panchayat meeting on in government premises and scared dalits wanting out. Both police and administration, said Shabnam Hashmi of Anhad, feigned ignorance about the meeting. Most dalit households have packed off women and younger family members to other villages.

Those who remain told chairperson of National Commission for Scheduled Castes, Buta Singh, also present in the village, they wanted to resettle elsewhere "far from the Jats". They called it "a pre-planned attack", the fight and barking-dog story only a pretext, what with a mob of 300 to 400 surrounding the locality on the morning of April 21, while the community's men had been talked into attending a 'compromise meeting' to cool tensions.

Related Story:

The Hindu

'Caste hostility led to Haryana carnage'

http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/28/stories/2010042853810400.htm

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