Khairlanji and its aftermath: Exploding some myths

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1019-1025

  Teltumbde, Anand ^a  

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1. On the Dussera day, October 15, 2002, five persons hailing from the dalit community werelynched to death in open daylight by the VHP/ Bajrang Dal activists at Jhajjhar district of Haryana in active connivance with the police. See Anand Teltumbde's 'Onslaught of Fascist Hindutva on Dalits: Impact and Resistance', available at http://www. ambedkar. org/vivek/ailc-speech.pdf. Last accessed on December 23, 2006.
2. On May 14, 2003, in Bhutegaon, district Jalana of Marathwada region, a youth, Dilip Shendge was burnt alive by the caste Hindu mob of the village. See 'Violence against Dalits in Marathwada: The Caste Cauldron of Maharashtra, a Fact-Finding Report', CPDR, 2003, available at http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Dalit- tribal/2003/caste-cauldron.pdf. Last accessed on December 23, 2006.
3. In Sonna Khota village, district Beed of Marathwada region, a dalit family was attacked by a caste Hindu mob. The mob chased Bhaurao Dongre when he ran to save himself from theattack and stoned him to death. See 'Violence against Dalits in Marathwada: The Caste Cauldron of Maharashtra, a Fact-Finding Report', CPDR, 2003, available at http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Dalit-tribal/2003/ castecauldron. pdf. Last accessed on December 23, 2006.
4. Rashtriya Sambuddha Mahila Sanghatana, a memorandum circulated for organising the protest rally in Bhandara, Vidrohi. Some factfinding reports say that Bhaiyalal Bhotmange got it from his maternal uncle. 'Organised Killings of Dalits in Khairlanji Village: A Report under SC-ST (PoA) Act, 1989', Babasaheb Ambedkar Research and Training Institute, Department of Social Justice, government of Maharashtra and Centre for Equity and Social Justice, Yashada. Available at http://www.mailarchive. com/zestcaste@yahoogroups.com/msg05124.html
5. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), in its report on 'Prevention of Atrocities against Scheduled Castes', authored by retired civil servant K P Saxena had indicted successive governments for their lukewarm response to atrocities against dalits. 7 On July 11, 1997, one police sub-inspector, M Y Kadam fired upon the protesters against the desecration of Babasaheb Ambedkar's statue in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar, a predominantly dalit-populated urban colony in Mumbai, without much reason or provocation. Tenpersons died and 24 persons were injured in the firing. Despite a struggle by the activists for the last 10 years, the conviction of the criminal PSI is not in sight.
6. Manuski Advocacy Centre, 'Caste Atrocity in Khairlanji - A Fact-Finding Report', Pune, 2006. Available at http://atrocitynews. wordpress.com/files/2006/ 10/khairlanji.pdf. Last Accessed: December 24, 2006.
7. Gohana is in Haryana, where 70 houses of dalits were burnt down by a mob of 1,500-2,000 jats in August 2005. No convictions are in sight.
8. National Crime Research Bureau, Annual Report 2005, Table 7.1, p 299, available at http://ncrb.nic.in/crime2005/cii-2005/CHAP1. pdf. Last accessed on December 23, 2006.
9. Many newspapers took a tangential view of the matter. An example is of a write-up by Sarita Kaushik, published in Hindustan Times on November 27, 2006.
10. 'Hame Padhe Likhe Logone Dhoka Diya', Mahanayak, Mumbai, October 11, 2006.