Mukesh Kumar
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Sent: Monday, 8 January, 2007 8:57:34 AM
Subject: Re: Low caste communities still suffering discrimination in Nepal
Thanks Madhu...your contributions are valuable to the deprived communities....
In fact, to add your this mail, I would like to say that an International Dalit
Solidarity Network (IDSN) is doing wonderful job to unite all dalits in
different countries....
The data you have been giving so far are very important to raise voice in the
Courts that "Deprived Community" exists in all societies....and introducing the
"Creamy Layer" concept is to devide the people among us....and is in line with
the British Policy of "Divide and Rule"...Let all deprived communities be given
chance (opportunity) to rule the country with Reservation in services and
education, in proportion of their population....for the sake of 'equality'
rights of the 'deprived communities' and the 'equal opportunity' to the
'deprived community' in matters of employments.
Thanks & Regards
Mukesh
On 1/8/07, Madhu Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Low caste communities still suffering discrimination in
Nepal
By: IRIN News
Published: Jan 6, 2007 at 07:42
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_48802.shtml
Low caste Dalit communities are still
neglected and discriminated against in Nepalese society. Photo: Naresh
Newar/IRINNepal's impoverished low caste
'Dalit' community continue to be discriminated against almost 20 years after
the
caste system was banned, human rights activists in Nepal's southwestern city of
Nepalganj have complained.
"We still have to live with the hard reality
of being discriminated [against] in every aspect of our lives," said Dalit
school teacher, Hari Bahadur Biswokarma, in Nepalganj, 600 km west of the
capital Kathmandu.
Biswokarma added that the situation was much worse in
the remote western areas of Nepal, which remain among the least developed areas
in the country with a per capita income of less than US $1 a day.
The
Dalits have suffered from caste discrimination ever since the former Nepalese
rulers, the Mallas, introduced the system in the 13th century. It was only in
1990, following the restoration of democracy, that the new constitution
declared
the practice of caste discrimination a crime.
"But even today, the
situation has barely changed as discrimination is rife in both social and
economic aspects," said Dalit activist, Parsuram Nepali, from the local rights
NGO, Neglected Community Awareness, Nepal.
He added that due to
discrimination, the Dalit families are excluded from most development and
economic activities, children are often deprived of education, and women have
to
work under exploitative conditions in the cities in order to make a
living.
According to the Dalit NGO Federation (DNF), around 80 percent of
the five million-strong Dalit population lives below the poverty line. DNF
explained that the literacy rate is barely 10 percent, with only 3.2 percent of
women literate, and most Dalit children suffering malnutrition.
Until
recently, the former Maoist rebels had been supporting the Dalits while engaged
in a decade of conflict with the Nepalese government. However, following a
peace
agreement between the two parties in November, the Maoists have been
preoccupied
with their own political issues, Dalit activists have complained.
"The
Maoists had proved themselves committed to end discrimination by punishing
especially the high caste landlords who had been exploiting the low caste
farmers," said activist Bhim Nepali from the NGO, Dalit Sewa Sangh.
"The
only way to end the discrimination is by empowering and educating more Dalits,
but the government has to be seriously committed, otherwise another civil war
will start in the country if the neglect continues," claimed activist Ram Singh
Karki, who explained that one cause of the armed conflict over the past decade
was related to the social exclusion of the low castes. He warned that the
Dalits
may be forced to take up arms if their wellbeing is constantly ignored by the
state.
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