Crimes against Dalits occur in India every sixteen minutes and are mostly unreported

Evidence

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, a crime is committed against a Dalit by a non-Dalit every sixteen minutes; every day, more than four Untouchable women are raped by Touchables; every week, thirteen Dalits are murdered and six Dalits are kidnapped. In 2012 alone, the year of the Delhi gang-rape and murder, 1,574 Dalit women were raped (the rule of thumb is that only 10 per cent of rapes or other crimes against Dalits are ever reported), and 651 Dalits were murdered. That’s just the rape and butchery. Not the stripping and parading naked, the forced shit-eating (literally), the seizing of land, the social boycotts, the restriction of access to drinking water. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 36

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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Broader Connections

• Privileged-caste militias massacre Dalits yet courts overturn the convictions. #exemplifies (0.70)
• Rural social boycott weaponizes non-cooperation against powerless Dalits, denying them livelihood. #exemplifies (0.60)
• Indian Railways still employs Dalits as manual scavengers despite a legal ban. #exemplifies (0.50)
• Gandhi addressed untouchability through urban scavengers rather than rural landless majority Dalits. #expands (0.40)