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 * This segment was copied from the article Namantar Andolan's revision (in section "Attacks") during 15:17 UTC, 28 December 2018.

Riots affected 1,200 villages in Marathwada, impacting on 25,000 Marathi Buddhists, Dalits and causing thousands of them to seek safety in jungles. The terrorised Dalits did not return to their villages despite of starvation. This violence was allegedly organised by members of the Maratha community and took many forms, including killings, molestation and rape of Dalit women, burning of houses and huts, pillaging of Dalit colonies, forcing Dalits out of villages, polluting drinking water wells, destruction of cattle and refusal to employ. This continued for 67 days. According to the Yukrant leader, attacks on Dalit were collective and pre-planned. In many villages, Dalit colonies were burned. The burning houses in Marathwada region affected 900 Dalit households. Upper caste rioters demolished essential household items that the Dalit possessed. They even burned the fodder stocks owned by Dalits. The bridges and culverts were intentionally broken or damaged to paralyse the military and police aid in villages during the time of the attacks. Upper caste mobs attacked government property including government hospitals, railway station, gram panchayat offices, state transport buses, District Council-operated school buildings, the telephone system and the government godowns, the communal property of ₹ 300 million was damaged. The Marathwada region was under siege of violence for over two years. The Dalits were wrecked economically and psychologically. Many Dalit protesters were physically injured and nineteen died including five protesters who lost their lives during the police repression.

Much of the violence occurred in Nanded district. Examples include:
 * Sonkhed village: The mob burned a Dalit residential area. Two women were raped and three children were killed.
 * Sugaon village: Janardhan Mavde was killed.
 * Bolsa and Izzatgaon villages: women were raped and tortured (one woman had her breast cut off).
 * The elder son of the martyr Pochiram Kamble, Chandar Kamble, lost his life during the Andolan.
 * Koklegaon: A Dalit teacher, local social activist, was tortured with his wife. Dalit habitations were set on fire.

Violence occurred in Parbhani district. Examples include:
 * Parbhani town: Hindu students and youths destroyed the statue of Ambedkar at Bhim Nagar.
 * Parbhani City: On 17 July 1978, agitators stopped buses and trains and even cut the telephone lines. The police did not intervene, and after 30 July Dalit habitations were targeted.
 * Adgaon Village: Dalits were threatened; cattle shed and agricultural equipments were torched.
 * Samiti observed similar violent incidents (like Nanded district) in Koregaon, Kaulgaon, Nandgaon, Sodgaon, Halta, Cohgaon, Nandapur, and many other villages of Parbhani district.

Examples of violence in Aurangabad district included:
 * Aurangabad City: Non-Dalits destroyed public property by burning buses, blowing up bridges to paralyze the social life.
 * Aurangabad City: Many professors opposed renaming the university. On the other hand, prof. Desarda, a Marxist teacher, was beaten by Maratha students for supporting the Namantar.
 * Akola Village: Mahajanrao Patil, a Lingayat, an upper caste Hindu, helped Dalits so he was beaten badly. Police did not react after his complaint. Kashinath Borde, neo-Buddhist police Patil, a flour mill owner, who officially reported complaints of harassment against Hindus was targeted. His bullock cart, household goods and house were burned.

Examples of violence in Beed district included:
 * Ambejogai: : Followers of Sharad Pawar got assaulted.

Examples of violence in Osmanabad district included:
 * Tuljapur: Dalit women were specifically attacked. Upper caste women helped in the torching of Dalit houses.
 * Dalits were terrorised by damaging the road bridges, telephone lines and the roads connecting between Kalam and Yermala.
 * Dalits in Tulzapur, Savargaon, Bavi, Pthrud, and Wagholi attacked.
 * A group of almost 900 violent upper caste youths attacked on Dalits.

Example of violence in Hingoli district included:
 * Basmath: After the attacks, the tahsildar did not provided meals for the victims. Instead, he advised them to beg for it.

Examples of violence in Nashik district included:
 * Nashik city: The attempts were made to garland the statue of Shivaji with footwear, to criticize Neo-Buddhists and to activate riots.
 * Vihit village: The statue of Ambedkar was damaged.

Examples of violence in Nagpur included: In Jalgot Village, Fauzdar Bhurevar was beaten and then burned alive by a mob at a police outpost. Violence was reported in Pune. Demonstrators in Mumbai teargassed. Statues of Ambedkar and Buddha through the region were also damaged or destroyed.
 * The police shot Avinash Dongre, a child, in his head when he was chanting the slogan Change the name at Indora Bridge 10.
 * Along with Dongre, Dilip Ramteke, Abdul Sattar, Roshan Borkar and Ratan Mendhe sacrificed their lives in Namantar struggle at Nagpur.

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