Our children are gone
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- 305.23 BAR
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An attempt to interprete the Indian constitution and the international law on indigenous peoples and their children's rights
This old folk-song of the Korku Indigenous People' probably written during a devastating famine, is unnervingly close to their shattering reality today. Four thousand of their children died in the last four years. Over the years, thousands of them have lost their land to usurious money-lenders. Adding insult to the exploitation, the Government has decided to evict about 8,000 Korku from their ancestral space.
The spring of 1993 arrived in their villages with messengers of death and destitution. Every month since then, the lives of a hundred or more Korku children are extinguished, through spring, summer and rains. Every new year death pulls into the dust more children. Last year, 1075 pre-school age Korku children succumbed to hunger and medical neglect.
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