Recurring massacres of Dalits span every Indian region from 1968 onward

Evidence

3 On 11 July 1996, the Ranveer Sena, a privileged-caste, feudal militia murdered twenty-one landless labourers in Bathani Tola village in the state of Bihar. In 2012, the Patna High Court acquitted all the accused. On 1 December 1997, the Ranveer Sena massacred fifty-eight Dalits in Laxmanpur Bathe village, also in Bihar. In April 2010, the trial court convicted all the twenty-six accused. It sentenced ten of them to life imprisonment and sixteen to death. In October 2013, the Patna High Court suspended the conviction of all twenty-six accused, saying the prosecution had not produced any evidence to guarantee any punishment at all. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 447 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Crimes against Dalits occur in India every sixteen minutes and are mostly unreported; Courts repeatedly overturned convictions of Dalit massacre perpetrators — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 447; Privileged-caste militias massacre Dalits yet courts overturn the convictions.

Related

• Courts repeatedly overturned convictions of Dalit massacre perpetrators (similarity 0.93)
• Indian courts routinely overturn convictions in caste massacres for lack of evidence (similarity 0.84)
• Large-scale caste violence against Dalits has recurred across Indian states since 1968 (similarity 0.84)
• Crimes against Dalits occur in India every sixteen minutes and are mostly unreported (similarity 0.83)
• Mass violence against Dalits spans all Indian states and decades (similarity 0.83)
• Violence against Dalits is systematic, pervasive, and vastly underreported (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Privileged-caste militias massacre Dalits yet courts overturn the convictions. #expands (0.80)
• Crimes against Dalits occur in India every sixteen minutes and are mostly unreported #corroborates (0.75)
• Courts repeatedly overturned convictions of Dalit massacre perpetrators #complicates (0.55) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 447