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Has any tamil become President

MY qs is why did the ltte withdraw at this stage??

India: Hidden Apartheid of Discrimination Against Dalits
Government Fails to End Caste-Based Segregation and Attacks
(New York, February 13, 2007) India has systematically failed to uphold its international legal obligations to ensure the fundamental human rights of Dalits, or so-called untouchables, despite laws and policies against caste discrimination, the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. More than 165 million Dalits in India are condemned to a lifetime of abuse simply because of their caste.

Dalits endure segregation in housing, schools, and access to public services. They are denied access to land, forced to work in degrading conditions, and routinely abused at the hands of the police and upper-caste community members who enjoy the state s protection. Entrenched discrimination violates Dalits rights to education, health, housing, property, freedom of religion, free choice of employment, and equal treatment before the law. Dalits also suffer routine violations of their right to life and security of person through state-sponsored or -sanctioned acts of violence, including torture

Exploitation of labor is at the very heart of the caste system. Dalits are forced to perform tasks deemed too polluting or degrading for non-Dalits to carry out. According to unofficial estimates, more than 1.3 million Dalits mostly women are employed as manual scavengers to clear human waste from dry pit latrines. In several cities, Dalits are lowered into manholes without protection to clear sewage blockages, resulting in more than 100 deaths each year from inhalation of toxic gases or from drowning in excrement. Dalits comprise the majority of agricultural, bonded, and child laborers in the country. Many survive on less than US$1 per day

If they are not discriminated why special reservations....Funny

We Indians are perhaps dirtiest people in world. Our cities look like extended slums, towns are filthy dumps and villages often reek of excreta. It is said that poverty breeds filth and it could be true. But in our country there is another problem. The problem in head. The problem of mindset and problem of habit and perhaps culture. We just dont want to live in clean places. I have seen many and I really mean many well educated, well read and well traveled people who just don t think for a moment before littering in public places. Right outside my office, employees of at least 3 IT companies in vicinity can be seen smoking and having tea in plastic cups which they throw right there on road after they are finished. There is no dustbin there but it doesn't occur to any of them to take the empty cup back to office and throw in bin.

http://www.undercoverindian.com/2007/02/we-need-toilets-not-temples-why-are-we.html

One should ask the 'Dalits' abt this so called 'PEACE' out there!

MY qs is why did the ltte withdraw at this stage??

They are supporting the 'Weaker Sections' of Society !

They have no economic power & by giving them exclusive seats , they are being absorbed to the Indian Society !

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TYpvnMks1HE

do you kill untouchables in india?are you not one of them?