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Caste atrocity in Lathor, Bolangir district of Odisha.
*More than **50** houses are burnt by upper** **castes on** **22/1/12.*
A small boy’s incident took the shape of caste violence in Lathor, Balangir
district of Odisha. The incident started at 3.00pm at lathor ,a 9th class
dalit boy Ganesh Suna used to wear 2shirts every day but today he wear
only a shirt, but he went to purchase a shirt and wear it over that shirt,
but shopkeepers Bharat Meher and his brother Daya Meher , called him
back and accused him as a thief and beat him . When the boy was returning
to home helplessly at that time he met to an old man Gouranga Suna and told
about the incident and by responding to the shopkeeper s the old man told
that why do you beat him? If he has stolen the shirt we can pay the money
for that but you should not had to beaten him, but, the shopkeepers did not
listen him and beat to the old man (Gouranga Suna) too by their foot wears.
Then the old man reported to his family members, and then 4/5 youth from
Dalit community went to the shop and fought with them. This is the fact
matter occurred at the beginning of the incident and in this way feeling of
hatred created between dalit (Asavarna) and upper caste (Savarna), and
upper caste take the advantage of being majority heavy over the dalit
minority.
By taking the advantage of the situation, the upper castes reaction to
this incident and attacked by their weapons, stick, and muscles power and
fought against Dalits. Because Dalit were minority in number so they could
not face the violent force of upper castes mob. So Dalit tried to save them
from this brutal violence and run way from their home. Some dalit men went
to the forest, some went to the nearest villages and the women saved
themselves in other untouchable Ghasia Vasti (Scavenger) and saved their
life. In this way the upper castes created fear among dalit.
Even the violent upper castes people looted gold ornaments and expensive
materials. They burnt all the certificates of the students and other kind
of valuables documents. At the same time they abused to all dalit women
with derogatory language. Even the upper caste trader people like Marwadi
Agrawal distributed liquor and petrol freely to ruin the dalit houses.
Meanwhile some dalit tried to register an affair in the Lathor police
station but police refuse to register the case and unable to handle the
catastrophic situation. The Incident became very serious goes up to a level
where no one able stops the upper castes; even they beat to a local news
reporter of Kanak TV and threatened to The Dharitri reporter Bhubaneswar
Barik . By marching they blocked all the road communication facilities and
burnt tyre on the road and dug the road by which communication can be
stopped towards Lathor.
The burning goes up to more than 6th hour according to OTV news channel but
fact is that it’s more than 6 hour from the dalit people report and eyes
witness. The Upper castes mob fearlessly attacked to fire brigade and brunt
their vehicle so that the fire could not stop and they can burn all the
houses. Since, nobody has courage to off the burning so everything changed
in to ashes. From the current report there are no single commodities and
food grains which are left out for their uses until the case is registered
and fire brigade stop the fire. Police reached there at mid night and tried
to protect the victimized dalit people.
On the 23 January, in the morning police high authority DIG reached to the
spot with another battalion and ordered the fire brigade commandos to stop
the fire. When fire was stopped at that time there was nothing which can
be collected for their use. Then after the government following the case,
in the late morning at 10 or 11 am the administrative officers Tahasildar
and BDO reached to investigate the incident. The officers took the homeless
dalit in to a Govt School and provided some kind of relief and distributed
some Biscuits, Shawls and Chuda. The distributed things are useless which
cannot be eaten which are low in quality. The rehabilitation programme
taken by government is insufficient. And all homeless dalit accommodate
in a Govt school of the particular village. The victimized and homeless
dalit people need proper rehabilitation, adequate help and emotional
support.
Dalit are lost their houses, property, wealth, clothes bikes, books and
they are hopeless and homeless. More than 4 crores wealth has been lost.
Whole Dalit Vasti is being burnt, where more than 50 fifty families were
living, there is nothing to collect from the home, and they lost
everything. The children women and men are displaced from the home. The
rehabilitation programme which is taken by the government is insufficient;
all the people are rehabilitated in a government school. Imagine the
situation is very pathetic, people are crying, such a brutal attacked by
the caste Hindu nobody can think on the issue even Police and
administration are unable to give justice.
From TV report the Odisha Chief Minister declared to give 1 lakhs to each
victimized family as compensation.
These are the victimized dalit families:
*SL NO*
*Name of the Victims *
*Male No*
*Female No*
*Boy Age under 14*
*Girl Age under 14*
1
Gouranga Suna
2
3
1
1
2
Byasa Suna
1
2
2
3
Nilanchala Suna
3
2
-
4
Rajhansa Suna
2
1
1
5
Simanchal Suna
1
2
4
-
6
Trinatha Tandi
4
4
-
-
7
Dolamani Tandi
1
1
-
1
8
Sikun Bag
1
2
3
9
Mahendra Suna
6
3
1
-
10
Lakhsman Suna
3
3
-
-
11
Mukhiaru Suna
1
2
1
-
12
Karunakar Suna
1
2
2
-
13
Bhadra Suna
2
2
-
-
14
Sankritan Suna
2
3
-
-
15
Akrura Suna
1
2
1
16
Madan Suna
1
1
1
-
17
Pradeep Suna
3
3
-
-
18
Dalaganjan Suna
1
2
3
-
19
Tunu Suna
1
2
3
-
20
Kadam Sagadia
1
1
4
-
21
Kangres Sagadia
2
2
2
-
22
Shankar Sagdia
3
5
-
-
23
Rameshwar Tandi
2
2
-
-
24
Kalindri Suna
1
2
-
2
25
Tine Suna
2
1
-
-
26
Dhanu Suna
3
2
1
1
27
Biranchi Suna
3
2
2
-
28
Jaganath Tandi
1
1
1
-
29
Pati Sagadia
2
2
2
4
30
Dinesh Suna
2
1
-
-
31
Kanhu Suna
3
1
1
-
32
Pancha Suna
1
2
1
1
33
Kialash Suna
1
1
2
-
34
Gulapi Suna
-
2
1
2
35
Firoj Suna
1
1
2
-
* *
*TOTAL*
* *
*65*
*70*
*41*
*13*
This is a fact data we collected by the reasonable resources. There are
more victimized people whose name is to be enlisted.
These are the picture from the incident which speaks about the caste
violence and burnt houses.
1- The burnt materials are thrown out from the home-
These are the burnt and broken buildings.
Documents, utensils and houses are destroyed. More than 4 crores of
property have been lost.
The helpless women and innocent children are in the Govt School (relief
camp).
These are the up dated news many more facts and details are yet to come……
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