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周日，印度已向抗议地区派遣了4000名军人，5000名辅助军人。印度政府要求到周日夜
晚，平息抗议，恢复秩序。
当地警察头目称，目前死亡人数已达10人，超过150人受伤。
抗议者已切断了通往德里的供水。
该地区乡村种姓Jats 的骚乱和抢劫，是印度越来越强烈的政府工作竞争和教育开放的
症状。印度人口十年内将超过中国。
在德里西边的一个公路的交叉路口，2000人阻断了交通。抗议领导人是一名59岁的农夫
，他称，我们将死在这里，直到政府屈服，我们决不收回我们的要求。
抗议者们袭击了当地部长们的家，点燃了火车站，在铁轨上静坐，阻断了数百辆火车，
破坏了向德里供水的水厂的水泵。
India deployed thousands of troops in Haryana on Sunday to quell protests
that have severely hit water supplies to Delhi, a city of more than 20
million people, forced factories to close and killed 10 people.
Rioting and looting in Haryana by the Jats, a rural caste, is symptomatic of
increasingly fierce competition for government jobs and educational
openings in India, whose growing population is set to overtake China's
within a decade.
The federal government has already deployed 4,000 troops and 5,000
paramilitaries in a massive show of force to restore order. It has ordered
an end to the protests by Sunday night, an official in Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's office said.
In Bahadurgarh, on the road west from Delhi, around 2,000 protesters were
occupying a highway intersection and stopping truck traffic. Shops in the
town were closed.
"We are here to die," said Rajendra Ahlavat, a 59-year-old farmer
and protest leader. "We will keep going until the government bows to the
pressure. There is no way we will take back our demands."
TV reports from Jhajjar, further west, showed troops fanning out on the
streets against a backdrop of burning and damaged buildings - evidence of
the fury of Jats who make up a quarter of Haryana's population and
number more than 80 million in total.
Haryana's police chief said the death toll had risen to 10 and 150 more
had been injured. "We are trying to identify the conspirators and take
action," Director General of Police Yash Pal Singal told a televised
news conference.
Protesters have attacked the homes of regional ministers, torched railway
stations and staged sit-ins on tracks, blocking hundreds of trains. They
sabotaged pumping equipment at a water treatment plant that provides most of
Delhi's water.
"No water available now. Still no hope to get it," Deputy Chief
Minister Manish Sisodia said in a tweet.
The Delhi government ordered schools to shut on Monday and rationed water
supply to residents to ensure that hospitals and emergency services have
enough.
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, India's biggest carmaker by sales, suspended
operations at its plants in the state after the protests disrupted the
supply of some components.
With many road and rail links cut, the government announced that extra
flights had been laid on to destinations in northwest India.
The unrest poses a threat to Modi's promise of jobs and growth for the
aspirational Indians who elected him in 2014 with the largest majority in
three decades.
Modi, who has previously faced criticism for ignoring unrest that does not
fit with the upbeat narrative of his nationalist government, avoided
reference to the protests in a visit to Chattisgarh.
He unveiled a statue and spoke on efforts towards rural and urban
development.
Modi wants to attract foreign investment to back his 'Make in India'
drive to create 100 million manufacturing jobs by 2022. At the current rate
India may only create 8 million jobs in that period, by one independent
estimate.
The Jat protests echo a similar movement last year in Modi's home state
of Gujarat, where the Patel community demanded a greater share of scarce
government jobs and college places that are now reserved for people from
lower castes.
Hardik Patel, the 22-year-old leader of the Gujarat unrest, became a
national sensation after drawing half a million people to one rally. The
authorities cracked down on Patel, who was charged with sedition in October.
(Additional reporting Suvashree Choudhury in Mumbai; Editing by Miral Fahmy
and Clarence Fernandez) |
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