A fact-finding team of civil society activists that visited Dhule to enquire into the January 6 communal violence in the Maharashtra town has alleged deliberate targeting of Muslims by the police. Six persons, all Muslims, died in the police firing that followed the violence which has been a recurring phenomenon in the town.
This time trouble appears to have started in a small way in the form of an altercation between a food stall owner and a rickshaw-puller. It spiralled out of control after Muslim and Hindu mobs joined the quarrel and began hurling stones at each other. According to the fact-finding report released in Delhi on Friday by Shabnam Hashmi, Prof. Ram Puniyani, Prof. Apoorvanand and others, the police made no effort to contain the tension and instead “started firing indiscriminately at Muslims.” The team alleged that the police stood by while Hindu mobs looted and torched Muslim homes. “This is evident from the fact that 35 Muslim homes were completely destroyed in the fire while the corresponding figure for Hindu homes was four.”
The report said: “They [police] did not use the public address system to alert the crowd, nor did they use lathi or teargas shells before going for firing… The police firing was not intended to disperse the mob. All the bullet injuries are above the knee, in the abdomen, chest, neck, back and face.”
Ms. Hashmi and Prof. Apporvanad, who were accompanied by family members of those killed in the firing, said the plight of the affected Muslims was doubly worse because they were listed as “accused” and not allowed to lodge FIRs. The team disputed the version of the Collector that the police firing was in self-defence as the mobs had attacked the police with lethal chemicals, resulting in grievous injuries to many policemen. Quoting from the records of the Civil Hospital, the team said that of 159 police personnel taken to the hospital, only 18 were admitted and the records showed that all of them suffered simple injuries.
The fact-finding report broadly corroborates the reportage in *The Hindu of police excesses against Dhule Muslims, including their failure to follow the standard operating procedure of using firing as the last resort. The report demanded, among other things, suspension of the Dhule Collector and the Superintendent of Police, prosecution of all policemen involved in killing people and destroying property, immediate lodging of FIRs in all cases of deaths, injuries and loss of property and announcement of a relief and rehabilitation package, including the opening of a relief camp for those who have been uprooted following the violence.
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Minorities will always be targeted in South Asia. Unfortunately, jahaalat is on the rise. We have become the victims of communal-ism. I feel for Muslims and Christians in India.
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welcome to India the worlds biggest democracy!
Something is being done about this to contain this. I understand that these are baby steps, but still these are being done. In a vast country like India there can be miscreants and the govt has done the right step by getting into the details rather than just accept the police version.
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And that makes it quite acceptable to have Muslims killed in Hindu dominated India?
Is this some kind of contest or comparison why you brought Pakistan here?
While it is not right to compare the incidents in Pakistan, I cannot stand those who do not hesitate to show their glee whenever some minorities are killed in their own home countries. While equal/more rights are demanded wherever muslims are in a minority, I do not see the same enthusiasm to give these rights to minorities wherever the Muslims are in a majority.
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from my understanding due to communalism in recent years more Muslim minorities have died in Pakistan then have been killed in Hindu dominated India.
in other post you asked me not to talk about India because you claimed i was trying to change subject well look at this you now talking about pakistan in a Topic about India haha your attention span is like a goldfish you forget so quick.
Did you also mention you have no interest in defending the abuse of minorities by groups and government of India.
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While it is not right to compare the incidents in Pakistan, I cannot stand those who do not hesitate to show their glee whenever some minorities are killed in their own home countries. While equal/more rights are demanded wherever muslims are in a minority, I do not see the same enthusiasm to give these rights to minorities wherever the Muslims are in a majority.
what glee it exposes the worlds biggest democracy as a sham minorities are not respected even hindus of lower caste not respected it is a nation which is really a fragile union on the verge of cracking.
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No not at all, my simple point was this does not solely happen in India and to think it does was naive.
this thread is about india. such incidents do indeed call into question the country's secular and democratic credentials. you are trying to draw parallels with a neighbor that is neither secular nor democratic and where minorities are constitutionally inferior. that is a wildly inappropriate benchmark for india to measure itself against.
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what glee it exposes the worlds biggest democracy as a sham minorities are not respected even hindus of lower caste not respected it is a nation which is really a fragile union on the verge of cracking.
Could you please enlighten us about when the cracks would grow to a break up. With your knowledge and intelligence, I think it is a blessing that you are spending time here to make us understand on what is wrong with our country.
ps: It would also help if you could read the post and answer to the point than to madly ramble.
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Could you please enlighten us about when the cracks would grow to a break up. With your knowledge and intelligence, I think it is a blessing that you are spending time here to make us understand on what is wrong with our country.
ps: It would also help if you could read the post and answer to the point than to madly ramble.
If you don't know then you don't need to know because it shows you cannot even be bothered to research state of your nation.
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^^
Sorry my research skills are not so good. Having a solid researcher here should help us or do you think your research skills are insufficient to point to an exact date.
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No not at all, my simple point was this does not solely happen in India and to think it does was naive.
The problem was two fold in your post;
Using word 'more'. That means making comparison.
Secondly you did not focus on India.
While it is not right to compare the incidents in Pakistan, I cannot stand those who do not hesitate to show their glee whenever some minorities are killed in their own home countries. While equal/more rights are demanded wherever muslims are in a minority, I do not see the same enthusiasm to give these rights to minorities wherever the Muslims are in a majority.
Anyone showing glee on anyone being killed, regardless those belong to minorities or majorities is wrong.
What enthusiasm? I merely pointed out the obvious.
Pakistan or any Muslim Majority area is not the topic of this thread. Please feel free to point out your concern in the thread where it would be appropriate.
Feel free to search those threads.
Until then I would like to see you showing 'your enthusiasm' against these hate crimes in India. :)