Last Monday and Tuesday, the scenario of the battle brought on by the dispute between the social community Kathmandu Metropolitan City and the residents of Sukumba heated up so much and continues to be heating up. Crude jokes are being made about squatters on social media. On social media, slum dwellers and concrete poor are being referred to as terrorists, unruly mobs, and instigators of violence. Some are slandering that they’ve eyes on land value crores of rupees, whereas others are making sarcastic feedback saying, “How can those that can educate their youngsters overseas turn into squatters, make me a squatter, authorities?” But as quickly as I heard the information that the metropolis had created dozer terror within the slums like this, I remembered certainly one of my sisters who labored in my previous workplace.
She is a single lady. A single lady is left by her husband. His house is Nuwakot. I do not know why she determined to depart her husband and dwell alone, however greater than the choice to depart her husband and dwell alone, she was capable of keep there due to the numerous disdainful appears to be like the villagers forged on her. To escape the identical scorn, he arrived on this crowded metropolis a few years in the past in the hunt for a phenomenal future. He taught his youngsters by working in different folks’s houses, later working in an workplace. For virtually 20 years, he has been hiding his ache on this slum and incomes a residing within the crowded metropolis.
He just isn’t the one one, there are lots of folks residing in such settlements after struggling discrimination and humiliation within the village society, being poor and forgetting their ache within the streets of town – serving the city wealthy.
I’ve reached their home in that settlement a couple of years in the past. I’ve additionally met many different folks of that settlement, I’ve additionally heard their discuss. Small rooms, shacks drowning in snow, their habitation continues to rise every so often, generally with sewage floods and generally with dozers.
Many of us felt the significance of the home within the earthquake of 2072. The lack of vanity of not having a home, the lack of vanity when a home falls, the lack of vanity when not at residence, the difficulty of not having a home. I’m nonetheless in shock enthusiastic about it. What a chilly folks we’ve turn into.
After the dozers of the Kathmandu metropolis arrived on November 12 to take away the slum dwellers of Thapathali, pictures of the slums appeared within the information. After seeing these images, many issues stored enjoying in my thoughts. Seeing the scenes of moms dragging their youngsters and taking out their belongings, households unable to do their homework, moms, the disabled, the aged, and the horrible clashes that befell on Monday evening made me unhappy.
A metropolis mayor has 5 years to serve. In the push to turn into a hero in a single day, he didn’t violate the human rights of others and harm his self-respect. Smart management appears to be like for coverage choices to unravel issues, will get concerned and innovates!
While many on social media noticed a bunch of aggressive boys with tattoos, folks like goons sporting gold sikris, folks with houses elsewhere in political events, I felt the silent cry of the poor, dalit, single girls who’re rejected by the society.
However, many are preaching on social networks that one shouldn’t be sentimental, shouldn’t have any type of sympathy for individuals who seize public land. Yet what man am I if I shouldn’t have a lot human compassion for the helpless. Whether or not I can do one thing for them is one other story, however I believe it is a phenomenal braveness to have the ability to empathize with somebody.
When saying this, many individuals will assume, then, was that violence stunning? If the assault on town policemen was justified, was it justified to overtly threaten to kill the bare sheep? No, it wasn’t and it is not. Action needs to be taken towards those that interact in such violent actions and overtly threaten to kill. No one needs to be in favor of violence, not solely me, however paradoxically, our eyes solely noticed the violence there, however couldn’t hear the silent screams of the slum dwellers. Where to go, what to do, how one can deal with it if you all of the sudden really feel your urge with none choice?
It is ironic that every one the landless persons are being insulted on Facebook and Twitter by displaying two/4 dangerous characters who entered squatter settlements. Even extra yesterday, I see that those that say they’re doing politics for nomination are attempting to chase him from town. With such actions, evidently we’re diverting the dialogue of the squatter drawback in the direction of the tip quite than in the direction of an answer. Are we not ignoring those that are on the lookout for different help due to this? We want Sukilamukila city growth that too right now tomorrow. It does not matter to us that different folks’s homes are bulldozed, different folks’s homes are destroyed, others are homeless, different folks’s incomes are stopped, as a result of we expect the poor are an impediment to growth.
And how simply we touch upon social networks. Whether it’s a home or land of their village, I’ll ship it to them. If it’s the identical, I’ll ship it to them. If it’s the identical, I’ll ship it to them.
Why do folks come to the gang of massive cities? Because I’ve seen numerous abuse of poor, Dalit, single girls within the village. Perhaps to keep away from such humiliation, folks come to the crowds of massive cities. Many such persons are hiding their ache in these slums. But what will we care about that as a result of we’ve no sympathy with their cries. Instead, we’re focused on ‘Why do those that name themselves squatters permit them to take possession of land value tens of millions like Thapathali’?
And as a substitute of being their voice, we’re busy calculating the worth of such land. But in such settlements, there are lots of individuals who undergo discrimination and humiliation within the village society, and get misplaced and overlook their ache within the metropolis – they make a residing by serving the city wealthy. When ought to we examine such folks? When will we make their voice?
However, social and financial issues should not solved by dozers. But luckily we’ve acquired an engineer mayor. In phrases of engineering, he can say that the dozer can remedy many issues. A mayor can say that he’ll make his metropolis a metropolis free from the poor, he’ll make a metropolis the place folks dwell, however it’s silly to assume that town will turn into stunning solely by chasing away the poor and helpless folks within the metropolis. All varieties of individuals dwell within the metropolis, particularly Kathmandu, the capital of the nation. People come right here from completely different elements of the nation for various causes, persons are on the lookout for their swabhimana (self respect) within the crowd of town and it’s the duty of the mayor to arrange all these folks and make town stunning. All the folks from the poor to the wealthy needed to dwell within the metropolis and everybody needed to dwell with dignity.
A metropolis mayor has 5 years to serve. In the push to turn into a hero in a single day, he didn’t violate the human rights of others and harm his self-respect. Smart management appears to be like for coverage choices to unravel issues, will get concerned and innovates!