NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE No One Killed Dalits

RNI : MAHENG/2014/59661 A geogrAphicAl nArrAtive Price : Rs 10 | Year : 1, Issue :7 | Pages : 16 Mumbai | English | Monthly | November 2015thesabha SUBSCRIBE @ NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE Rs 100/year online at www.thesabha.org About thesabha It is an initiative to connect geographies through university stu- dents, workers, farmers Bernie Sander Meena Kandasamy Aamir Khan and other producers. A senator running for Author of the book A bollywood actor It is an adless newspa- President in 2016 In USA The Gypsy Goddess per, with contribution Bernie Sander Meena Kandasamy Aamir Khan from individuals and (In a rally for the USA president race) ( At the 7th Anuradha Ghandy Memorial ( In Goenka award ceremony ) civil society institutions. Lecture in Mumbai ) “The profit motivation of private compa- This mass killing of Dalits is something “For any society it is very important to nies running prisons, works at cross pur- that happens again and again, and the have a sense of security. I mean there will Contact: poses with the goals of criminal justice. way in which the judiciary functions is be acts of violence in the world for dif- Call or Whatsapp Criminal justice and public safety are also replicated in the same manner. So ferent reasons. But for us as Indians, as a +91 8454073328 without a doubt the responsibility of when I started looking at it, you could part of society to have a sense of securi- the citizens of our country, not private find the whole common thread that runs ty… two-three things are very important, Email corporations. They should be carried out through all these massacres and the first I feel. One is sense of justice. If there is [email protected] by those who answer to voters, not those thing is there is a large element of victim a wrong step that anyone takes, then a Website who answer to investors. blaming, there is dismissing the evidence correct justice is what is required. We have 2.2 million people in the jail, of the witnesses in one pretext or the www.thesabha.org that is more people incarcerated than in other, the judiciary being completely em- Common man should feel that justice any country in the world including China bodied by the fate of the case, the judicia- will be done. That’s what gives a sense which is a autocratic state. ry not stepping in, and all the witnesses of security. In times of deficit, We are spending about turn hostile because of the threats they 80 billion dollar a year to incarcerate face, the judiciary not taking any steps to The second and very important sense of people. Our criminal justice system is protect them. security is the people who are our elected broken, and we need to fix it. So, from time to time this judiciary might representatives – people who we select to For high school graduates unemploy- make the right noises, it can pretend that look after us for five years if at state lev- ment rates is white 33%, hispanic 37%, it is pulling up the government, it can ex- el or Centre. When people take law in to afro-american 53%..And when they are press the occasional outrage, but if you their hands and when there is a sense of unemployed bad things starts to hap- look at it closer you will understand the insecurity, we look upon these people to pen. And if anybody thinks there is no true face of the judiciary. And I think in take a strong stance, make strong state- correlation between unemployment and this context it is important for you to ments and speed up the legal process to youth ending up in jail, they are wrong. know recall a bit of Foucault, who says prosecute cases. When we see it happen- So maybe instead of investing in jail and the real political task in a society is to ing there is a sense of security but when incarceration we should invest in jobs criticise the working of the institutions, we don’t see that happening there is a and education- Instead of spending bil- that appears to be both neutral and in- sense of insecurity. So it does not mat- lion dollars on people to lock out, why dependent. To criticise and attack them ter who the ruling party is. It’s happened can’t we spend on education? It costs less in such a manner that the political vio- across ages.” to spend on someone to put in jail than lence that has been exercised obscurely to put him in college.” through the mask, gets unveiled. So that Social Media Trends one can fight against them. India #ChennaiRainsHelp No One Killed Dalits #OccupyUGC A talk by Meena Kandasamy on 7th Anuradha Ghandy Memorial Lecture #PinjraTod #DelhiOddEvenLogic “Our memories of the Gujrat genocide in 2002 is still So, when we trace the history of massacres whether fresh. We cannot forget the bodies of small children it is Villupuram whether it is Bathani Tola, whether it which is lined up and arranged next to each other and is Laxmanpur bathe, let us realise that the killing of I think there is a long history of the killing of children. children is the bottom mark that runs through each South Asia If you look at the massacre in Kilvenmani that hap- of these caste atrocities. pened on christmas day 1968, 23 small children were The Congress Party in Kilvenmani in Nagapatinam #NepalBlockade killed. All of them were burnt to death. district is represented by the man who actually #AungSanSuuKyi In fact, it is not just children who were locked in a hut lynched the dalits. So, Gopal Krishna Naidu is the were burnt to death but there is one episode which president of the Tanjore Congress, the chief minister anybody in Kilvenmani tells you again and again and of the state. At the time Annadurai, he comes and World it is the episode of how one of the mothers of the says people should forget this as they forget a feverish #FeelTheBern child in a last desperate attempt to save the child nightmare or a flash of lightning, this is India’s first #GlassSteagall throws the child outside hoping that somebody will Dravidian Chief Minister. And then Periyar a month #TPP save, somebody in the mob will have the humanity to later speaks about the event and he says wage is not #ParisAttack save this child, but they basically chopped the baby something that you can demand it is something that into pieces and put the baby back in the hut and set is fixed by the market condition and he blames the #FeesMustFall the hut on fire. So this is the caste Hindu humanity communists for the act of kilvanmani. #MillionStudentMarch that we have in this country. (continued in page 2 ) 2 www.thesabha.org November 2015 Continued from page 1... Meena Kandasamy : No one killed Dalits I personally, when I read about this case, when I read which it called out the judiciary for its discriminatory of Bihar, he was killed as well. These are the limits to about how 44 people both men and women and chil- treatment to judges belonging to SC and ST communi- justice system. These police states, caste society can’t dren were lynched to death, I was betrayed not by what ties. It took issue with the way the Madras High Court shield these murderers from the wrath of the people. It the caste hindus did but what the judgement did and is been treated. Starring the story from Chhattisgarh took a 12 years to avenge Gopal Krishna Naidu but on I felt that the judgement was as merciless as the mas- the 17th district judges all belonging to SC, ST com- the 14th Dec of 1980 people delivered the justice which sacre itself. munities were removed when they had 10 to 5 years court has failed to deliver. The case of Bramneshwar of service left. The commission finds out this is nearly Singh, he could not survive a year after he was let out If we revisit the undivided east Tanjore district in the because they are maturing for elevation of high court of the jail. This could not have happened if only there immediate aftermath of what happened in Kilvenmani judges, so system was trying to prevent this. is properly functioning and impartial judiciary. you will find something very interesting emerging, You will have all these landlords who go out and say things The commission report also observes that the Bom- To the Judiciary like, there will be hundred of more Gopal Krishna bay high court and Delhi high court doesn’t follow the The systematic denial of justice to the Dalit people is Naidus (he is the man who basically led this lynch mob policy of reservation in the staff employment from a genocidal hate. I used the word knowing which not who is a landlord ), hundred more Kilvenmani’s will last 61 years. The Madras and Rajasthan high court hold in any court of the law but nevertheless that is continue to burn, and one of the other things they said, don’t follow any policy of reservation for SC, ST for no smaller word to describe the degree of hate you hundred landlords are willing to enter the gallows, gazetted and promotion based posts. Six decades of received against Dalits. Of course I give you the con- hundreds of us ready to embrace the noose. And this is the appointment shows that it revolves around the few tempt that you worked so hard to earn.

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