In a series of dark days, yesterday was among the darkest.
As world’s eyes are on India, those of us outside NEED to amplify narratives that highlight this👇🏽
Not the Taj, not Obama’s Gandhi Ashram entry, but THIS bald, stark Hindu hate that’s baying for the blood of our people.
Journalists were told not to cover the brutality because ‘finally the Hindu had risen’.
Those didn’t comply were asked to ‘prove’ they weren’t Muslim — by insisting to pull their pants down.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/are…
Rioters, fundamentalists, foot soldiers played music, chanted ‘Jai Sri Ram’ and cheered in glee, while proudly claiming to having given ‘freedom to a Muslim man’ — objectively by beating him mercilessly.
Protestors who had been asking for ‘freedom’ from the draconian effects of CAA+NPR were mocked with merciless violence.
The national anthem which they pridefully sang to reclaim their nation was forced on baton-point from their assaulted pile of bodies.
Prominent members of the ruling party openly incited hate — we’ll hold (against the protestors) till Trump leaves, after that we won’t even listen to you — to the Delhi Police.
Only to turn around and appeal for peace after night long of rioting.
While the police seemed to encourage the mob who seemed to back the divisive CAA+NPR laws.
Thread below from an eyewitness journalist’s account of what went on ground, including detailed accounts of violence.
https://t.co/2D9HaBAZeI
Another eyewitness journalist’s account of what went down and how the riots seemed to have started.
https://t.co/t5fvBski6h
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