Fifty years of independence. The salute of fifty bullets. Ten Dalits murdered. This is our independence. ~ Poster in Ramabai colony135 (Excerpt from the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report Broken People: Caste Violence Against India’s ‘Untouchables’) Excessive use of force by members of the police is not limited to the rural areas that are …
Sunita Babu’s Suicide: Driven to Death by Police Harassment
‘Suicide of Sunita Babu – Due to Police Harassment‘A fact-finding report on a Dalit woman’s suicide in Kerala by Sthreekoottayma (A women’s collective) The suicide of Sunita Babu, a Dalit woman, in Eroor, Thrippunithara of Ernakulum District appeared and was discussed in the media, but not with the seriousness that it deserved. The media …
Brief Report Of The Killing of Adivasis by CRPF at Edesmeta, Chattisgarh
Brief Report Of The Killing of Adivasi Civilians by CRPF at Edesmeta in Bijapur district, Chattisgarh, on May 17, 2013 [Via Karthik Navayan] Following media reports that eight adivasis and a CRPF constable had died in an alleged encounter on the night of May 17, 2013 at Edesmeta village in Bijapur district of Chattisgarh, a …
Cops watch as Dalits are attacked by organized mob in Keesara, near Hyderabad
Sub-Inspector of Keesara police station, Mr Venkat, was an eye witness to the brutal assault on Dalits in Rampally Dayara: Human Rights Forum ~ To The District Collector and Magistrate Ranga Reddy district, Hyderabad Dear Madam Sub: Attack on dalits (Madigas) of Rampally Dayara JNNURM Colony- assistance to victims of attack-regarding. You are aware …
Fact finding team’s report on Dharmapuri caste pillage
[Report translated from Tamil by Ratna Mala] Dharmapuri violence: Caste rage, devastation and looting Report of the Fact Finding team – consisting of Gambeeran, Yakkan, Yazhan Aadhi, K. Umadevi, Sridhar Kannan and Neerai Mahendran – on Dharmapuri caste pillage. “My friends’ mothers scolded in foul language and provoked them to set ablaze the cheri people’s …
Fresh Bout of Caste Violence within Muslims in Allahpur
(This is the English version of the press-note circulated by the All India Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz (AIPMM). Translated by Khalid Anis Ansari) In a village in Bihar’s East Champaran district the lives of the poor Muslims belonging to backward castes has been under continuous threat from the dominant caste Muslims for the last seven …
Second phase of violence in Assam: Update from NCHRO
Press Release Guwahati, 30-11-2012. Following the news reports about the second phase of violence and the continuance of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps for over five months in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) areas, a team of National Confederation of Human Rights Organisations (NCHRO) visited the places and met the affected people, some …
Dharmapuri atrocity – preliminary report
Preliminary Report by Evidence, God’s Mercy Illam, 9B, P.T. Rajan Road, (Near Singarayar Colony), Madurai – 625 002. Tamil Nadu.On 14.11.2012 ~ Initiate action who indulged in torching Dalit homesIncidents of attack on Dalit residential areas rising in Tamil Nadu4 villages, 60 Dalit homes were torched and 120 houses got damaged ~ Natham colony is within …
मनुवाद के शिकंजे में जकड़ी भारतीय उच्च शैक्षणिक संस्थाए: एक विडियो रिपोर्ट
Neel Kranti Media प्रो. मुंगेकरकमेटी रिपोर्ट को लागू करवाने तथा वर्धमानमहावीर मेडिकल कॉलेज केदलित-आदिवासी छात्रो के हितो के लिए 19 अक्टूबर को जंतर मंतर, नयी दिल्लीमें एक प्रदर्शन का आयोजन किया गया. इस प्रदर्शन में जेएनयू, दिल्ली यूनिवर्सिटी, जामियायूनिवर्सिटी, एम्सऔर मौलाना आजाद मेडिकल कॉलेज केछात्रो ने वर्धमान महावीर मेडिकल कॉलेज के संघर्षरत दलित-आदिवासी छात्रोके …