---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Venugopalan K M <kmvenuan...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:27 PM Subject: Is Manu Smiling? Parallel System of Administration of Justice Spreading Beyond the Heartlands of the Khap Panchayats [EXCERPTs from Contercurrents article by Pradeep Singh Attri - Caption Changed] To:
“Honouring Dalits With Blood” *By Pardeep Singh Attri* http://www.countercurrents.org/attri110110.htm "...Recent days in district Muzaffarpur of Uttar Pradesh a women was raped by her ‘father in law’ and ‘Khap Panchayat’ ordered she should accept his ‘husband as a son.’ In another district Saharanpur, 40 years old women was paraded naked in village and ‘Khap Panchayat’ ordered to rape her 17 years old daughter and people acted on the same lines. Police didn’t even register the case. In Meerut district, almost same happened when inter-caste marriage happened..." After two days of ‘International Human Rights Day’, on 12th December, 2009 while commuting death sentences of two persons involved in honour killings ‘Supreme Court’ accepted ‘caste’ as a ‘stark reality’ in honour killings said “The ‘caste’ is such a concept that grips a person even before his birth and does not leave him even after his death the vicious grip of the caste, community, religion, though totally unjustified, is a stark reality.” *"....Righteous Kill: Stark Realities* It is estimated that every year hundreds of married couples are murdered, are asked to leave the village, are asked to break their marriages and accept each other as brother-sister, are paraded naked, and blackened their faces by their families in order to regain/retain ‘family honour’, on the ill-fated instructions of ‘Khap Panchayat’. And mostly those suffer in these crimes are Dalits. The decisions about killing, burning homes, raping Dalit women etc are taken by these “Khap Panchayats” collectively at the open places without any fear. It’s not always the family of boy or girl (as promoted by these ‘Khap Panchayat’) who kills or orders to kill but the ‘Khap Panchayat’ members plays an active role in executing rapes, murders. If they (boy/girl) escape, their family members are being murdered/killed, gang-raped or fined heavily." Nothing happens to people like Mahendra Singh Tikait, farmer leader in western Uttar Pradesh when speaking on behalf of ‘Khap Panchayats’ he comments like ‘only whores chose their own partners.’ Why no action was taken against him, who degraded the whole women society? *Denying ‘Constitution’, Implementing ‘Manusmriti’.....* "....Though everything is written so plainly in ‘Constitution’ of India about the equal rights for everyone, irrespective of religion, caste, color, creed, etc; even today after 60 years of Independence, ‘Khap Panchayat’ are greatly influencing and are capable of petrifying people in the northern region. By keeping ‘Khap Panchayats’ alive aren’t Government’s trying to make Manu smile?...". "..Lack of representation of Dalits in police, print media is also a severe problem. Further, serious issue is of divisions among Dalits and lack of able Dalit leadership in the region, people on the name of Dr Ambedkar are fighting to prove that they are real ‘Karva Pullers’ of Dr Ambedkar, but reality lies somewhere else! There is a strong need of active participation of everyone including NGOs, police, Panchayat bodies and serious/strong laws (not merely paper tigers!) against the crimes of ‘Khap Panchayat'...." -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com--
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