Communal Riots Break Out In North India

[lsingh]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-24012420

Indian army soldiers have been deployed in Muzaffarnagar in northern Uttar Pradesh state after 28 people were killed in religious clashes.

Several villages are under curfew after violence between Hindus and Muslims.

Officials say the death toll is likely to rise as more than 50 people were injured in the rioting.

The clashes were sparked by the killing of three men after they protested against the alleged harassment of a local woman.

Later the circulation of a fake video showing two men being lynched led to more violence, which spread to neighbouring villages in the district.

Among those killed in the weekend clashes was a TV journalist.

A total of 800 troops have been deployed in the area to bring the situation under control and more than 100 people have been arrested on charges of inciting violence.

"A curfew has been imposed in three riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar. The situation is still very tense, but under control,'' senior Uttar Pradesh official RM Srivastava told the Associated Press news agency.

The clashes broke out on Saturday after Hindu farmers held a meeting to protest against the killing of three men who had spoken out against the alleged harassment of a local woman.

Reports say a few participants made provocative speeches at the meeting.

Some of the farmers were attacked when they were returning home after the meeting, senior police official Arun Kumar said.

"The attackers seemed well planned. Some were armed with rifles and sharp-edged weapons," Mr Kumar said.

Within hours clashes broke out in neighbouring villages, officials said.

Uttar Pradesh experienced some of the worst religious clashes in India after a Hindu mob razed the 16th Century Babri Mosque in the holy city of Ayodhya in 1992.

This prompted nationwide rioting between Hindus and Muslims in which more than 2,000 people died.

India has seen a rise in religious violence this year with 451 incidents reported so far compared to 410 for all of 2012, a federal minister has said.

[Hindustani]

Apologies from us kafirs we thought it would be ok to defend our sister from being molested in the open market place. We forgot that harassment, violence, rape, abduction, sexual grooming of the kafir women is the birth right of the religion of peace hence should not be stopped. :blink2:

Kudos to those two young boys from the Jatt community for defending their sister by taking out the molester and then being beaten to death, the skulls crushed with cindar blocks.

[Guest]

Apologies from us kafirs we thought it would be ok to defend our sister from being molested in the open market place. We forgot that harassment, violence, rape, abduction, sexual grooming of the kafir women is the birth right of the religion of peace hence should not be stopped. :blink2:

You need to change the title of the thread to something else especially since most of the dead are kafirs and the "minority" which is actually a majority in these parts is doing most of the killing.

Kudos to those two young boys from the Jatt community for defending their sister by taking out the molester and then being beaten to death, the skulls crushed with cindar blocks.

Krodh much?

[Hindustani]

Brother, Krodh is a natural human emotion. And an extremely powerful emotion if harnessed correctly. Krodh? Perhaps a little but I am tired of what I see. Anycase, kudos to those two 16

year olds who died for the protection of their sister.

[Jonny101]

Good thing is for the first time the army was sent in on time before hundreds or even thousands would die. Only about 30 people died in this riot which by Indian standards is very few. India, especially UP/Bihar and the other Hindi belt states are like a tinderbox just waiting to explode. Punjab already went through it's worst communal riots in 1947 which permanently divided the Muslims and Sikhs from each other so we do not have to face each other in future. But that's not the case for the rest of India where Hindus and Muslims live side by side. Just small things can spark riots as we have recently saw in Muzzafarnagar.

[proactive]

The clashes usually always occur because some Muslim needs to sexually harass or rape a non-Muslim woman. The same has happened to the Rohangya Muslims in Myanmar.

The chronology seems to be that a sister of a Jaat boy was sexually targeted by a Muslim. The boy and his cousin then went and got knives and seriously assaulted the Muslim. The Muslim community then lynched both boys, The Musla was taken to hospital where he died. The Police under political pressure from the Samajwadi party government did not arrest any of the murderers.The Jaat community then held a Mahapanchayat to protest the police inaction. Jaats going back to their villages from the Mahapanchayat were attacked by mobs of Muslims. The Jaats then attack Muslims in their villages.

[ghettosikh]

muslims starting crap again and when they get done in they start crying about it nothing new here

[GPS]

The boys had warned muslim eve teaser many times not to do this.But he continued to do mean acts.

Then they went to him .

Their meanness deserve no sympathy from me.

[Jonny101]

True, this communal riot should not be compared to 84 anti Sikh riots. This is a case of brothers trying to protect their sister's honour from a lecherous pervert who was harassing her. When the brothers reacted the Muslims took this as an affront as to how these lowly Kafirs can be so bold as to try to attack one of our boys who was just harassing a kafir's girl. The Jaats, Gujjars, Rajputs in these areas are very reactionary. Had the military not been brought in on time who knows how bloody this might have become. I wouldn't be surprised if the BJP will now sweep the elections in these areas as a result of this riot.

[Mehtab Singh]

I wouldn't be surprised if the BJP will now sweep the elections in these areas as a result of this riot.

In fact there were big boys from the BJP present at one of those mahapanchayats where inflammatory speeches were given right before these riots. In any case, it was not the Kafirs who started it, atleast this time.