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"Mr President, India, just like Europe, is a subcontinent with many peoples and different languages, which is trying to put the war and oppression of the past behind it. However, India still has torture and the death penalty and there is still violence against the people of Kashmir, who never had the referendum that was needed after partition in 1947 to establish the state to which they wanted to belong.
In Europe, the strategic partnership with India that was agreed in 2004 should not be a reason to close our eyes to the discrimination against the 170 million untouchables who do not belong to any caste and have no rights. In 2007 the Indian Prime Minister rightly compared the discrimination against these Dalits to apartheid in South Africa. Many Dalits have converted to Christianity or Islam. The extremist opposition party BJP is trying to use the forthcoming elections to mobilise Hindus against the Christians and Muslims and to force the Dalits to resign themselves to always being poor and having no rights.
How can we help the Indian Government to stop this violence and how can we make sure that the EU aid after the floods also reaches the Dalits?"@en1
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