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Dalit Victims of Apartheid in India
Over 250 million people are victims of caste-based discrimination and segregation in India. They live miserable lives, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system in Hindu India. Dalits are discriminated against, denied access to land, forced to work in slave-like conditions, and routinely abused, even killed, at the hands of the police and of higher-caste groups that enjoy the state's protection, according to Human Rights Watch.
"Slavery and apartheid could be removed, so now [caste] can be removed through an international expression of outrage," Says the UN Human Rights Chair Pillay from South Africa.
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