Dalit repression by ethnic groups

Ethnic leaders excluded Dalits from their movements and didn’t talk about ending untouchability.

The Gurung villagers, including some women, assaulted a Dalit man and his mother at their home in the Gurkha village of Lwang, Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality, Kaski, on the night of last Friday. They also broke windows and shouted casteist slurs as well as demeaning remarks. The Dalit victims survived the unprovoked attack, but the single mother required treatment in intensive care at a hospital in Pokhara. Someone bravely took a video of the brutality on their mobile and uploaded it to an obscure YouTube channel. That’s how the terrible crime came to public notice.