Saturday, June 07, 2008

Dalit Woman Burnt Alive over Water issue

Here is another sad incident which took place on June 6, 2008. The Dalit people suffer from many kind of oppressions. In many regions they are not allowed to fetch water from the same well or handpumps.


The story from msn.com :


Harda (MP): An elderly Dalit woman was burnt alive allegedly by three members of an upper caste community over a dispute on fetching water from a village hand pump.

Prembai, 55, suffered 80 per cent burns as she was set ablaze on Tuesday, Abhishek Ranjan, Sub-Divisional Police Officer, said today.

The incident took place at Harda's Kantada village where Prembai was stopped from using the village hand pump by three upper caste persons, Ranjan said.

A quarrel erupted as she refused to budge, following which Hiralal, Dinesh and Rajendra allegedly set her on fire, he said adding Prembai succumbed on Wednesday.

The incident came to light yesterday when Kantada villagers, along with the her body, held demonstrations in front of the Harda Collectorate demanding action against the accused.

A complaint in this connection has been registered by Hukumchand, the deceased's husband, Ranjan said adding only after verifying the charges, a case of murder will be registered against the accused.

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Remember, Jesus talking to an untouchable woman two thousand years ago and asking water from her. He gave her life and the water of life. He went into her community, stayed with them, talked to them, drank their water and taught them that God loves them too. So many women and their people are waiting for same Jesus message of hope for them.


The real story can be read here:

http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1436276

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=c618ba10-6fb0-4a94-830d-5b2fd469664b&MatchID1=4698&TeamID1=2&TeamID2=5&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1185&PrimaryID=4698&Headline=Dalit+woman+torched+in+MP+district

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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

The value of a human being in Hinduism- A little girl thrown into fire

The little girl kamlesh might have never dreamed of her bad karmas. She never knew what it means to be born in an untouchable family. But before she could learn anything about the devilish caste system, she was thrown into a burning fire by a so called upper caste man in North India on April 30,2008.

The story was heart touching. The girl was only of 6 years old. She did not know what will cost her for being walking in a street where, a hight caste man had his house. The man shouted at her in anger, "why did you come here? What you doing here? How come even the children of lower caste people enter our streets?"

Before this girl could understand anything, the man in rage threw her into a heap of burning fire with the intention that she would die there and other will learn the lesson not to walk in the street.

The man, Sunny could have talked about the issue in a village meeting or with the guardians of the little baby but he did not. He had no mercy or kindness, for this was a 'lower human being' and that too, 'a girl'. So he went on to punish her, for being a Dalit and daring to cross the border.

Well, this man is just an example of millions people like him.

What will change these people? What are the hopes ? Let's know from you... Let's share...

I do pray that God will take care of His precious people.

More later.....

*the picture belongs to www.bbc.com/hindi

The original story can be read here http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080048355

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