A screenshot from a viral video showing the body of a Dalit man being decreased from a bridge as caste Hindus had apparently disallowed access to lands encroached by them. Photo: Special Plan.
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” This is a great moment to challenge the narrative in India also and talk about the olden repression of Dalits, which shows up even throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with discrimination denying people help”
Stimulated on by U.S. anti-racism protests, Dalit advocates on June 10 called on India to acknowledge centuries of injustice they have actually endured and identify that “every life matters”.
Dalit advocates said they supported the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in action to the death of African-American George Floyd after he was knelt on by a white law enforcement officer, and hoped it would ignite a comparable discussion in India.
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