Dalit family brutally assaulted after neighbours’ repeated threats

Fifty-year-old woman lies bruised in Siraha hospital as family recounts years of insults, exclusion, and harassment.

Fifty-year-old Sumitra Mallik lies in a small clinic in ward 10 of Sukhipur Municipality, her body covered with dark bruises from head to toe. She can barely speak, but when a reporter visited her on Thursday, she struggled to whisper: “What can I say? For them, we are not even human.”