Mass violence against Dalits spans all Indian states and decades
Evidence
These are some of the major crimes against Dalits and subordinated castes that have taken place in recent times: in 1968, in Keezhvenmani in the state of Tamil Nadu, forty-four Dalits were burnt alive; in 1977, in Belchi village of Bihar, fourteen Dalits were burnt alive; in 1978, in Marichjhapi, an island in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of West Bengal, hundreds of Dalit refugees from Bangladesh were massacred during a left-led government’s eviction drive; in 1984, in Karamchedu in the state of Andhra Pradesh, six Dalits were murdered, three Dalit women raped and many more wounded; in 1991, in Chunduru, also in Andhra Pradesh, nine Dalits were slaughtered and their bodies dumped in a canal; in 1997, in Melavalavu in Tamil Nadu, an elected Dalit panchayat leader and five Dalits were murdered; in 2000, in Kambalapalli in the state of Karnataka, six Dalits were burnt alive; in 2002, in Jhajjar in the state of Haryana, five Dalits were lynched outside a police station. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 448
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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- Large-scale caste violence against Dalits has recurred across Indian states since 1968 (similarity 0.94)
- Recurring massacres of Dalits span every Indian region from 1968 onward (similarity 0.84)
- Violence against Dalits is systematic, pervasive, and vastly underreported (similarity 0.82)
- Crimes against Dalits occur in India every sixteen minutes and are mostly unreported (similarity 0.79)