Huggler Justin

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• "Untouchable" caste find themselves deprived of tsunami aid

  25 January 2005
  The persecution of Dalit tsunami survivors has been mostly at the hands of other survivors, fishermen from the slightly higher Meenavar caste, the community in mainland India hit worst by the tsunami. Most of the Dalits in the affected area are either subsistence farmers or make their living on the fringes of the fishing industry, carrying heavy loads of fish from boats or selling them in the market.