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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 07:34 PM
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Low caste survivors denied food and water
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/08/wsurv208.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/01/08/ixnewstop.html

Thousands of low caste Indian "untouchables" are being denied food, water and shelter by higher castes in camps for tsunami survivors.

Around 5,000 Dalits from the worst hit area south of Madras have been kept from aid agency water tanks and pushed to the back of long food queues.

Fishermen from the higher Meenavar caste also turned the Dalits, who they employed as labourers before the tsunami, out of shelters, gave them leftovers to eat and prevented them from using lavatories.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 07:42 PM
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1. Man's inhumanity to his fellow man knows no bottom
sad
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MHalblaub Donating Member (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 07:49 PM
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3. and you don't have to look over an ocean to see it. -nt-
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Patchuli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 07:46 PM
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2. That is shameful and so sad...sigh nt
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villager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 07:52 PM
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4. Those doing the "casting away" would make great Xtian fundies!
We oughtta get 'em together with our own Fundies, and they can spend all their time "denying" each other!
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