Generalized detentions and demolitions of goods targeting Muslims in India have feared that right -wing Hindu nationalists operate last week’s terrorist attack in Cashmere to deepen an oppression campaign against the largest minority group in the country.
The anger of the public swollen after 26 people – all except one of them, Hindu tourists – were killed by activists near the city of Pahalgam in the undivided part of the Kashmir Indians, a Muslim major region. India said Pakistan has a support for the attack, an accusation that Pakistan denies.
India seemed to prepare to strike Pakistan militarily in response to the terrorist attack, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi promising to track down the terrorists and “shave” their shelters. A Minister of the Pakistani government said on Tuesday that Pakistan thought that an Indian strike was imminent.
Until now, the central government of India has focused on the realization of a series of punitive measures against Pakistan, in particular by threatening to disturb the flow of cross -border rivers. But right -wing Hindu officials and groups intensified the harassment of Muslims, which they formulated as a journey against illegal migrants.
In several states led by Mr. Modi Bharatiya Janata’s party, local officials used the time to track down what they call “illegal Bangladeshis” and Rohingya, the Muslim minority that fled myanmar. Such labels, including “Pakistani”, are often used to target Muslim migrants from other parts of India.
The murders of Muslims were reported in two states, the Uttar Pradesh and the Karnataka, with reports with the media suggesting that these were hatred crimes.
Inside the cashmere, the security forces arrested hundreds while looking for the authors of the April 22 attack, and exploded the houses of the people they accused of having terrorist affiliations. The sweeping, which included the detention of 2,000 people according to a civil servant, resemble the collective sanctions that the authorities previously carried out after attacks against the security forces in cashmere.
The Kashmiris in other states have pointed out harassment and violence, with right -wing groups that turn to sellers on the roadside of cashmere and threatening violence if the Kashmiris do not leave.
“The attack on Pahalgam was horrible but should not become a pretext for engaging in reprisals and attacks on minorities, including arbitrary arrests or summary sanctions,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, deputy director of Asia of Human Rights Watch.
Ganguly said that “ultra -nationalist broadcasting networks and social media users have prompted hatred” that resulted in violence.
The immediate backlash after the terrorist attack was targeted on the Kashmiris and quickly spread to a wider anti-Muslim feeling. This said analysts, continued a demonization of Muslims that Mr. Modi’s party has long used to unite the Hindu majority of India.
In the days that followed the attack, the students of the cashmere who study in the cities of India reported harassment and threats. The highest elected official of cashmere, Omar Abdullah, sent ministers of government to different cities to help “ensure security and well-being” of Cashmiris.
In the Uttar Pradesh, a Muslim worker was killed and another injured on April 23. The attackers, declaring themselves members of a Hindu group, published a video claiming responsibility and saying: “I swear on Mother India that I avenged 26 with 2,600 of them.” (However, state police said that murder was linked to a food dispute.)
In Karnataka, another Muslim man was lynched for sanging Pro-Pakistani slogans, according to local reports.
The most radical action came to Gujarat.
On Monday, the state police chief said his police arrested 6,500 “alleged Bangladais citizens”. Drive’s dentation videos have shown that men were moved to the streets inside the strings.
In an indication of how the arrests were blind, the police chief said that only 450 prisoners had so far been tried illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
The Government of Gujarat also announced a demolition campaign in a Muslim slum near a lake, showing images of bulldozers drones and tilting trucks for an operation which, according to him, involved more than 2,000 police officers. Tuesday evening, the Minister of the Interior of the State, Harsh Sanghavi, said that around 2,000 huts had been shaved in a journey against the illegal “bangladeshs”.
Harsh Mander, a social activist, said that the painting of Indian Muslims like “Bangladesh” was an old trope used by Mr. Modi’s party.
Resident queries requesting a break were refused on Tuesday because the government had advanced a national security argument.
The petitioners argued that they were citizens of India with documents and have lived in the region for decades. They acknowledged that the demolitions had taken place in an area that the government claimed to be public land, but said that they had occurred without notice or regular procedure.
The Petitioners of the City of Gujarati of Ahmedabad said that detained persons had been subject to “guardian violence, atrocities and humiliation”, despite the realization of the police that “more than 90% of those detained” were Indian citizens.
Actions against Muslims, said Mr. Mander: “Are all signs of what the state does to use its power and authority in an illegal and unconstitutional way against a particular community.”
Queen Raj,, Nanda showkatAnd Pragati KB Contributed reports.
