Mitigating caste violence

Dalits must stop believing their political masters and focus more on religious and spiritual causes.

We are just back from a trip to Beni in Myagdi district, where the dead body of a 19-year-old pregnant Dalit teenager brutally knifed by her former upper-caste lover eerily awaits justice. The locals discovered the crime in a nearby forest several months after the gruesome murder. The Myagdi police have recently arrested the suspects and are collecting evidence to present to the court. The victim’s parents are too poor and unable to speak out, but some local Dalits have been pressurising the district administration to deliver justice through street demonstrations and lobbying.