Silence and shame in Ajit Mijar’s killing

Caste hatred often precipitates caste violence, and hardly any criminal is sentenced to jail.

Last Monday, some Dalit lawyers, politicians and Dalit rights activists, including myself, gathered in Lalitpur to discuss ways to make a last-ditch effort to deliver justice to Ajit Mijar. A young Dalit from Kavre district, Mijar was allegedly killed in July 2016 by the family of his girlfriend as their upper-caste pride could not tolerate their woman’s marriage to the son of a shoemaker.