Yet Another Day, Yet Another Murder
Two stories of violence shook Tamil Nadu in the last week. The first incident happened in the Thoothukudi district, where a newly married couple was hacked to death, just 3 days after their wedding, by the girl’s parents. The father of the girl hired mercenaries to kill the couple who eloped to get married. The second incident happened in the Tirunelveli district where 2 men from the scheduled caste community were attacked by a bunch of men from an intermediary caste after knowing that they were from a nearby Dalit hamlet. These men attacked them with weapons, stripped them, and urinated on them. This is the same Tirunelveli district that saw the gruesome attack on two school-going Dalit kids a few months back. While both the recent incidents, the murder of the newlywed and the assault of 2 Dalit men are seen as caste violence, only one of them is caste violence. The newlywed were from the same community and the only problem there was class differenc...
