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From: BubbaFred	1/7/2005 2:17:16 PM
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Indian Dalits Forced Out of Relief Camps, Activists Charge According to AFP, India's untouchables are being forced out of relief camps by higher caste survivors and being denied aid supplies, activists charged. Kuppuswamy Ramachandran, 32, a Dalit or untouchable in India's rigid caste hierarchy, said he and his family were told to leave a relief camp in worst-hit Nagapattinam district where 50 more families were housed. "The higher caste fishing community did not allow us to sleep in a marriage hall where they are put up because we belong to the lowest caste," Ramachandran said. "After three days we were moved out to a school but now the school is going to reopen within three days and the teachers drove us out," he said. "Where will I take my family and children? The school had no lights, toilets or drinking water," available for the displaced. acarvin at 1/7/2005 10:28:14 AM \| 10 comments \| Post a Comment \| Want to help? \| tsunamihelp.blogspot.com

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