Low caste survivors denied food and water

[The Sushi Bandit]

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.

[NMDemDist2]

1. Man's inhumanity to his fellow man knows no bottom

sad

[MHalblaub]

3. and you don't have to look over an ocean to see it. -nt-

[Patchuli]

2. That is shameful and so sad...sigh nt

[villager]

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!