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Killing Dalit Kids for Defecating in Open Won’t Make India Swachh
India will never truly be swachh unless we rid the country of caste discrimination.
Aroop Mishra & Meghnad Bose
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India will never truly be swachh unless we rid the country of caste discrimination.
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(Cartoon: Aroop Mishra/The Quint)
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On 25 September, two Dalit children, aged 10 and 12, were beaten to death in a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district, allegedly because they were found defecating in the open.
A police source said that Hakim Yadav, one of the accused, said he killed the kids as God had commanded him in his dream to kill “demons”.
India will never truly be swachh unless we rid the country of caste discrimination.
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