https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/02/asia/india-teenager-caste-killing-intl/index.html
The article i chose is about concerns about caste-based violence in India are growing after a 13 year old from a lower caste was beheaded in one of the country's southern states last week, with her alleged assailant coming from a higher class according to the police. The complaint filed to the police claims that the victim had rejected advances of the accused, triggering a violent reaction. The police have charged him under the act that criminalizes act-based violence. According to the National Crime Records Bureau. In spite of numerous laws and court rulings that have attempted to play an even level field, deep-rooted bias has repeatedly hampered progress, activists say.
This is a riveting event that has happened and i think it is very mortifying as well to know that someone can in fact be beheaded because of their social status or class. I don't agree with the event that happened and i wish it didn't. This relates to U.S History because of The 1989 Atrocities Act that presumes that if a non-scheduled-caste member harms a scheduled-caste member than it is because of the culpable mind of "untouchability".
It's absolutely awful that there are systems that determine how someone's life is lived out based on their class, especially when that system has the power to determine whether an innocent person lives or dies.
ReplyDeleteThis was very well written and I think it is awful that the caste system determines someones life and they can not change it.
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