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DELHI CENTER
10-02-2001
SSC
NEWS
EARTH QUAKE, ESCAPE FROM DEATH, REFORMED MEN!
No Never - the Hindu is too Evil an Animal to Change or
Reform even in the Face of Death, and after just escaping from the Jaws of
Death! He can't ever loose his caste
marks even after death!
Look at these News Reports in The Times of India and
Hindustan Times on the 5th and 8th of Feb 2001 -
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Shunned by the Govt, these villagers just
refuse to give in
Poornima Joshi & Amit
Sengupta
Khavda (Rann of Kutch),
Feb. 4)
THEY
REFUSE to be defeated. Ten days of sleeping in the open, with food supplies
getting exhausted and watching fresh tremors stalk the arid and saline
landscape, the 25,000 Kutchies in this tip of the Rann of Kutch, close to the
border of Pakistan, are resolute that they will not succumb.
And
this, when not a single official or politician has visited the 25 villages
around Khavda, ever since the quake razed every house in the region leaving 100
people dead and over 25,000 homeless. Relief supplies stop at Bhuj. Except for
the Army, which has set up a camp hospital, Khavda and its mass tragedy do not
exist for the Government and the rest of the world.
But
the people, mostly Muslims, Dalits, Kolis and Sindhi worshippers of Jhulelal,
despite the bitterness, refuse to shed tears. The Dalits and Kolis sleep next
to the fire under the winter sky, while the mercury goes down to below five
degree Celsius.
The
Sindhis have set up a community camp with the help of the Swaminarayan trust.
And the reasonably rich Muslims are enclosed in their clusters, thinking hard
how to begin anew.
It
was midnight when Bhuranatha was accompanying the Deputy Tehsildar to the
district headquarters at Bhuj. This was a desperate attempt to draw the
Collector's attention to their plight. The Dalit clusters have not received
even emergency food supplies from either voluntary agencies or the Government.
"No one comes to the Harijan basti. And we don't go to them to beg for
food," he said.
So,
it's the frozen expanse and empty stomachs for this artisan community, who,
till yesterday, would display their meticulous craftsmanship in major metros of
India. They have no land, the harvest has failed and daily wages for
sharecropping did not come by. And now the quake has damaged all the craftwork
they had made through the winter.
But
the Dalits are still upbeat. Thin and wiry, they laugh easily. Their women in
black and maroon dresses do not have tears in their big black eyes as they
watch the fire sparkle in the night. The hard struggle of years to survive in
this harsh landscape has toughened these people. Adversity seems to have become
integral to their lives. They are angry, but not afraid.
"It's
not easy to live invisibly and on the margin all the time. Will the Government
refuse to look at us even after such a catastrophe?" asked veteran
Nathuhira cynically. Will the Government care to look at them?
Postman
Hiralal Thakkar, surrounded by his community members, said, "The bank,
post office, telephone exchange, school, electricity office, Panchayat Bhawan,
everything has been destroyed.”
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Dalits, minorities cry discrimination
Amit Sengupta, Rapar, Bhuj, February 7
-HTC, Thiruvananthapuram
THE
FIRST signs of Caste and other forms of Discrimination while distributing
relief supplies have begun emerging in the rigid caste-divided society of
Kutch.
Dalits and Muslims have started
complaining that they are being pushed to wall by vested caste interests,
including those in the political and bureaucratic establishment. The Dalit Women in Rapar are an angry lot.
Reason: The dominant castes are cornering all the benefits of Voluntary Relief,
and the Dalits have once again been marginalized. "They physically push us
out of the queue. Or threaten us of dire consequences," lamented
Ahilyaben, surrounded by wiry Dalit Women, visibly undernourished.
Rapar is the fourth centre after Bhuj,
Anjar and Bachau which bore the brunt of the earthquake. Over 100 people died
here and the casualty was more than a thousand in the 115 villages in the
taluka. By rough estimates, the homes of around 35,000 people were
destroyed. Villagers all over Kutch,
including Khavda, where 25,000 people have been rendered homeless and no
government relief had reached even 10 days after the quake, have been
complaining that there have been cases of Caste Discrimination with regard to
relief supplies. The powerful communities usurp warm blankets, foodgrains and
tarpaulins, they allege in one voice.
The majority in these areas comprise Muslims,
Dalits and Kolis, and it is transparent that they have been left to their fate.
Even the Swaminarayan Religious Trust has only concentrated on the Sindhi
Thakkars, who are its disciples. In
fact, the people and the Opposition have also alleged that the RSS and VHP
activists were hijacking relief supplies.
The Gujarat Government, on the other hand, has been blamed for showing a
subtle bias towards the RSS and VHP, which were active in many areas. An RSS
activist in Khavda said that patrolling was on in the razed and empty mofussil
township at night because the organisation was quite sure that members of a
certain minority community would indulge in looting. Muslims in Khavda, who constitute the majority population, have
remained aloof and set up their own support mechanism.
In Rapar, Dalits are bitter that even
voluntary groups were being manipulated. "We have got nothing. I have only
this coat, and even this I managed to get after several days," said
Shagun, 60, a Dalit, wearing a kid's tweed coat. But the richer communities
like the Thakkars and the Jains, whose houses were also destroyed, think
otherwise. Said Paras Mehta, a Jain activist, "We have self dignity. We
have organized our own support systems. The Dalits are shameless. They are
appropriating everything and hoarding relief material."
In Dholavira and Gaddar, which are
distant, poor villages beyond Rapar which emerge after miles of no-man's land
comprising saline islands of the sea, every house has been destroyed, but there
is no sign of any official or voluntary relief. Even the Army is not active
here. Somehow, as in Bhuj, all relief trucks stop at the Taluka Head-Quarters
at Rapar. Thanks to the Sikhs of
Punjab and the Jats of Haryana, Rapar has been able to face food scarcity with
dignity. Hundreds of Sikhs have gathered here and built huge tents with
langars. Everyone is welcome. "We
can cook food for 50,000 people at one time," said Baba Lakhbir Singh from
Ratwaria Sahib near Chandigarh. "We have huge utensils and 50 specialist
cooks. About 200 trucks will be arriving soon with foodgrains. We can feed the
population for as long as it takes."
However, the poor are disgusted. Once again, they are face to face with
the oppressions of an entrenched caste society.
There are murmurs of protests against
the State Government all over Kutch. The first organized Protest against
Discrimination in Relief and total lack of official accountability was staged
at the Collector's office in Bhuj. Surely, more Protests are bound to happen in
the days to come.
VHP
criticised
Archbishop Cyril Mar Baselios has
condemned the VHP’s demand to reject the Vatican's aid for the quake victims.
In a statement, the Archbishop said it was unfortunate that some organisations
were questioning the integrity of those helping the victims of one of the worst
natural disasters.
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Friends,
The above is not a Govt Note or Press Release secretly
written by an unknown cowardish clerk from behind the Govt Disk with Official
and Stste Protection, but by a Press Correspondent in a leading News Paper in
Delhi! Many Journalists, TV Crew,
Politicians, Representatives of various Political Parties, Members of many
National and International NGOs, Voluntary Organisations, and International
Rescue Workers have been witnesses to these sad facts!
Many Dalits and Muslims struggle in the Cold Winter
Nights in the open, with nothing to cover or protect or save them, but sheer
determination and tough nature of their lives and bodies that could stand many
trials and abuse by the dominant caste hindus!
Look at what really is happening in this Country! The brahmanic hindus and their agent
baniyas, with the help of some of their traditional kshatriya associates, and
the Govts have been trying to project and rewrite the image of RSS VHP and
other fundamentalist outfits as not being Political or Sectarian Religious
groups, but as Voluntary Organisations engaged in humanitarian social service! Govt and the brahmin-bania media are also
actively engaged in this! What
humanitarianism and social service this is?
They have fully exposed themselves in the most tragic circumstances and
failed before the people, inspite of what the lumpen elements of their parties
belonging to the enslaved shudra communities and co-opted casteless outcaste
ati-shudra SC&ST Dalits may say or swear for their bones!
But shameless caste hindus, take even the little money
and material of the Govts that belongs to the People, majority of whom are the
SC&ST Dalits, Minorities and Other Backward Classes! They take all the Foreign Aid and Relief
Materials that is pouring in from the Soverign Countries of the World that are
Buddhists, Christian, Jewish and Islamic!
Shamelessly these fundamentalist hindu brahmin-baniyas are appropriating
them all, not providing them to any of the buddhist christian and muslim
SC&ST Dalits and also not yet converted SC&ST Dalits! How shameless are these brahmin-baniya
hindus! Howcruel are they!
While the whole Buddhists, Christian, Jewish and Islamic
World including Pakistan are rushing with aid men material money medicine
equipments, sniffer-dogs and rescue workers, to search rescue render first-aid
provide relief and rehabilitate the injured and the victims, as well as with
due respect dispose off the bodies of the dead, crores of sinned hindus
officials politicins and Govt Functionaries are busy washing their unwashable
accumulated sins and crimes against humanity and their fellow neighbours
brothers and sisters, over days and weeks endlessly, in the dirty waters of the
rivers Ganges and Yamuna flowing into Allahabad. They are perhaps not just trying to wash their sins, but are
trying to avoid their inevitable end in the hell for what all the crimes they
had done in their short lifetimes, and yet are trying to book and reserve their
seats in the heavens of their choice in the company of the people of their
liking! And a few amongst them calling
themselves as enterpreneurs are further cruel enough to organise sight seeing
tours for those equally cruel fellow caste-hindus to go and see the damages and
sufferings of the people of the quake-ravaged areas! And some others are still cruel enough to loot the damaged houses
and shops, as well as steal and rob the Relief Materials and sell them in
distant markets right from Ahmedabad to Surat and beyond in Delhi and Punjab!
This is the hindumind!
And this is hindu India!! And
this exactly is hindutva of the hindus, Govts and their Courts!!!