“Where is the honour in killing someone? Why are caste-based murders being labelled as honour killings? Dalits are being killed for their caste, so these are caste hatred killings and they should be called that.”

Quoted in Scroll.in (21 September 2018) https://scroll.in/latest/895332/telangana-do-not-describe-caste-based-murders-as-honour-killings-say-activists.

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