Muzaffar Nagar a Tale of Death and Despair

Society Pakistan & World Affairs
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Heart wrenching and depressing to see the plight of these innocent people.??? ??? - ?BBC Urdu? - ??? ??? ???: ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ?? ??? ??? ???](مظفر نگر فسادات: رنگ برنگے خیموں تلے امید دم توڑ رہی ہے - BBC News اردو)

سات ستمبر کی شام مندر سے اعلان کیا گیا کہ گاؤں کے مسلمانوں پر حملہ کرو لیکن کچھ جاٹوں نے ہم سے آکر کہا کہ پریشان ہونے کی ضرورت نہیں ہے، آپ کو کچھ نہیں ہوگا، ہم آپ کی حفاظت کریں گے ۔۔۔ لیکن اگلے دن صبح مار کاٹ شروع ہوگئی۔ ہمارا گھر جلا دیا گیا، ہم جان بچانے کے لیے کھیتوں میں بھاگے ۔۔۔ نفسا نفسی کے اس عالم میں میری چار مہینے کی بچی گھر میں ہی رہ گئی ۔۔۔ اسے زندہ جلا دیا گیا۔‘

جمیلہ خاتون (اصلی نام نہیں) کی بیٹی ان میں شامل نہیں ہے۔ جب جمیلہ اور ان کے شوہر بچوں کو لے کر بھاگ رہے تھے تو ان کی ایک بیٹی کو حملہ آوروں نے پکڑ لیا۔ اس بچی کی لاش برآمد نہیں کی جاسکی ہے۔
’ہم نے مڑ کر دیکھا تو انہوں نے ہماری بیٹی کو پکڑ رکھا تھا ۔۔۔ ہم واپس نہیں گئے کیونکہ وہ ہمیں بھی مار ڈالتے۔۔۔‘

نیادی سہولیات سے محروم ان گندے کیمپوں میں اب امداد کا سلسلہ بھی ختم ہوتا جارہا ہے اور پلاسٹک کے ان رنگ برنگے خیموں کے نیچے امید دم توڑ رہی ہے۔ یہاں نئی زندگیوں کا آغاز بھی ہے اور تاریک مستقبل کا خوف بھی۔

BBC News - Muzaffarnagar: Tales of death and despair in India’s riot-hit town

"Around 9am on 8 September, armed bands of Jats started attacking Muslim homes.
“They first burnt down a local mosque, then they started attacking individual homes. Around 10:30am, five male members of my extended family, including my son, were killed. They were out on the street, defending the elderly, the women and the children who were locked inside our homes.”
Rubbing his index finger on his throat, he says in a barely audible voice: “They slit his throat.”
The fighting in Kutba went on for two hours after which the police arrived and escorted Muslims to safety.
Mr Aziz and many of his neighbours chose Shahpur, a Muslims majority village.

Bohti Bi, an elderly and ailing Muslim woman, is being looked after by her Jat neighbours
Though the law and order situation has improved in the past fortnight, Mr Aziz is not ready to go back. “I have given up everything,” he says.

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Re: Muzaffar Nagar a Tale of Death and Despair

Thats sad, but interesting thing is that Pakistani media tried to cover this up as compared to the Indians.

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Its all due to Islamists and Zia era and Taliban apologists in Pakistan......not to mention the islamic blasphemy law and hudood ordinance. If none of that happened, this wouldn't be happenning to muslims in india........

/#coconut mode

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Re: Muzaffar Nagar a Tale of Death and Despair

really sad incident.

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kharbooza kharbooze ko dekh kar rung pakaRta hai :snooty:

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From what I have read in independent news sites is that this area is dominated by Hindu Jat, Gujjars, Rajputs, Yadavs and Chamars and muslims are mostly about 15% of the population. The Hindu Jats, Gujjars and Rajputs are the dominant zamindars and the muslims are mostly poor landless farm workers for them.

The problem arose in some muslim dominated areas where there is a criminal element. A group of muslims youths harassed some girls that happened to belong to the Jat community. The jat girl went back and told her brother and cousins. The girls brother and cousin went and killed the muslim guy. The muslim guy's relatives then killed the two jat youths. The politicans from both sides got involved and riots started. Part of this is religious and part of this is feudal because the zamindar jat community wanted to teach a lesson to the poor laborers who dared to fight them.

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Instead both communities should have followed the law and taken recourse in the judiciary instead of taking matters into their own hands and indulging in mob mentality. Nobody "won" here. Everybody lost. Many riots and wars have been started because women have been dishonored but still man refuses to learn from it. How stupid!