12-29-2006, 08:12 PM
utepian, please...
No one on this board is calling into question the facts of the case (though the CBI is), which is a case of premeditated, multiple murder. We are merely disputing the interpretation of the activists - that the caste angle (in the sense of superiority or pecking order) has much to do with this case.
Caste atrocities have occurred in other places in the past, and I am familiar with them. But, where they have occurred, they were perpetrated against the entire lower caste population of a village, not against a single family, and that too a very caste-specific provocation, like not showing "sufficient respect" to the land-owning caste. That is not the case here.
A long-standing (around 8-10 years old) land dispute is the primary cause. As well, in the very recent past, there were a series of escalations by both sides with the police-patil relative of the deceased entering into the picture.
No one on this board is calling into question the facts of the case (though the CBI is), which is a case of premeditated, multiple murder. We are merely disputing the interpretation of the activists - that the caste angle (in the sense of superiority or pecking order) has much to do with this case.
Caste atrocities have occurred in other places in the past, and I am familiar with them. But, where they have occurred, they were perpetrated against the entire lower caste population of a village, not against a single family, and that too a very caste-specific provocation, like not showing "sufficient respect" to the land-owning caste. That is not the case here.
A long-standing (around 8-10 years old) land dispute is the primary cause. As well, in the very recent past, there were a series of escalations by both sides with the police-patil relative of the deceased entering into the picture.