The generalized arrests and demolitions of the property aimed at Muslims in India have caused Conns that the Hindu right -wing nationalists are exploiting the terrorist attack last week in Kashmir to deepen a campaign of oppression against the minority.
The public anger has increased after 26 people, but one of them, the Hindu tourists were killed by militants near the city of Pahalgam in the part administered by the Indian of Kashmir, a region of Muslim majority. India has said that Pakistan had a support hand in the attack, an accusation that Pakistan denies.
India has seemed to be prepared to attack Pakistan militarily in response to the terrorist attack, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi promising to hunt terrorists and “drag” their safe shelters. A Pakistani government minister said Tuesday that Pakistan believed that an Indian strike was incoming.
Until now, the central government of India has focused on carrying out a series of punitive measures against Pakistan, including threat to interrupt the flow of cross -border rivers. But officials and Hindu right -wing groups have intensified the harassment of Muslims, who have framed as an impulse against illegal migrants.
In several states led by the Bharatiya Janata party of Mr. Modi, local officials have used the time to pursue what they call “illegal bangladeshis” and Rohingya, the Muslim minority that fled myanmar. These labels, including “Pakistani”, are often used to attack Muslim migrants from other parts of India.
The murders of the Muslims were reported in two states, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, with reports of the media that suggest that they were hate crimes.
Within Kashmir, the security forces have arrested one hundred are looking for the perpetrators of the April 22 attack, and have exploited the houses of people who have accused of having terrorist affiliations. The sweeps, which have included the arrest of 2,000 people according to an official, resemble the collective punishments that the authorities have previously carried out after attacks on the security forces in Kashmir.
The puppy in other states have reported harassment and violence, with right -wing groups filming in the assault of the sellers of the Kashmir road and the threatening violence if the puppy do not leave.
“The attack in Pahalgam was horrible, but should not become a pretext to participate in retaliation and attacks against minorities, including arbitrary trial or summary punishments,” Meenakshi Ganguly said right -wing director.
Mrs. Ganguly said that “ultra -nationalist transmission networks and social networks users have been inciting hate” that has resulted in violence.
The immediate reaction after the terrorist attack was attacked in Kashmir and soon extended to a broader anti-musulm feeling. That, analysts said, has promoted a demonization of Muslims that Mr. Modi’s party has won for a long time to unite the Hindu majority of India.
In the days after the attack, Kashmir students studying in Cities of India reported harassment and threats. The senior elected official of Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, sent government ministers to different cities to help “guarantee safety and well -being” or purse.
In Uttar Pradesh, a worker of Muslim restaurants was shot dead and another injured on April 23. The attackers, declaring members of a Hindu group, published a video that claims the responsibility and saying: “I swear for the Indian mother that I will be.
In Karnataka, another Muslim man, lynching for singing pro-pakistan slogans, according to local news reports.
The broader action has arrived in Gujarat.
On Monday, the State Police chief said that his officers had arrested 6,500 “citizens suspended from Bangladesh.” The detention driving videos showed that men moved through the streets inside the strings cords.
In an indication of how indisriminated they were the trials, the police chief said that only 450 of the arrest had found that they were illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
The Government in Gujarat also announced a demolition campaign in a poor Muslim neighborhood near a lake, showing images of drains and dump trucks aligned for an operation that, he said, involved more than 2000 police officers. On Tuesday night, the interior minister of the State, Harsh Sanghavi, said that around 2,000 huts had been razed on a trip against “illegal bangladeshis.”
Harsh Mander, a social activist, said painting Indian Muslims like “Bangladesh” was an old trope used by Mr. Modi.
The judicial requests of the residents who requested a pause were denied on Tuesday, since the government had presented an argument of national security.
The petitioners argued that they were citizens of India with documentation and had lived in the area for decades. They acknowledged that the demolitions had tasks in an area that the government affirms was a public country, but said they had happened without prior notice or due process.
The petitioners in the city of Gujarati de Ahmedabad said that the detainees had a leg subject to “violence of custody, atrocities and humiliation”, despite the fact that the police soon realized that “more than 90 percent of those who are detained” were Indian citizens.
The actions against the Muslims, said Mander, “are all the signs of what the State is doing to use its power and authority illegally and not very stituished against a particular community.”
Hishasini raj” Nanda showkatand Pragati Kb Contributed reports.
