Thread by @aamir4566

1987 : Twin Massacres of #Muslims at Meerut & Maliana by the Police

Initial response of the #Congress govt of massacres at Meerut & Maliana was one of denial, followed by attempts to cover up the crime. In a desperate attempt to find someone else to blame
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an Indian Embassy official explained the allegation by stating that “Police uniforms were stolen and used as a disguise by anti-social elements.

Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh administration, led by Chief Minister VB Singh (#Congress), claimed that the
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Muslims were the real aggressors, implying that the PAC’s was justified. Singh did suspend the PAC’s commandant, Tripathi, but after one day he was reinstated for the fear of Revolt in the PAC.

In an attempt to download Play the massacre, Union Home minister #HashimpuraMassacre

Buta Singh told the National Integration Council that only 10 persons were killed in Maliana.Indian govt led by RajivGandhi , despite granting compensation to the relatives of the Meerut victims, has never ack that its security forces were responsible for the #HashimpuraMassacre

PAC rounded up several hundred Muslim men in the #HashimpuraMassacre of Meerut.Once at the Ganga canal, the PAC lined up the man,shot them one by one, and threw their bodies in water. The floating bodies were discovered after a few days, and two survivors chronicled the massacre

“Here is a clear case of an organ of the state going out with cold-blooded calculation to raid and roundup a whole group of citizens, whisk them away, shoot them while in custody and then throw their bodies into the river.”
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The following day, the PAC arrived in the village of Maliana, under the pretext that Muslims from Meerut were hiding in the area. The PAC went on a Rampage, deliberately shooting unarmed men, women & children & burning some of the victims alive in their houses
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80 bodies were found in the #MalianaMassacre area believed to be those of victims of these killings.

Acdng to off figures, from may 19 to 23, 117 people were killed, 159 injured, and 623 houses, 344 shops and 14 factories were looted, burned and destroyed
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Report notes that in the first 4 days , 51 Hs were killed, & from May 21 to 25 at least 295 Ms were killed, almost all by or under the active supervision of the police & the PAC. Violence, including bomb explosions & killing & stabbing, continud until June 15 #HashimpuraMassacre

Those killed in the #HashimpuraMassacre #MalianaMassacre were Muslims. Their guilt or innocence of any kind was never an issue. Rather, the men who were killed at the upper Ganga Canal were picked up and arrested for one reason : They were Muslims.

In #MalianaMassacare & #HashimpuraMassacre ,killings were carried out in an entirely indiscmnt manner,No regard for the gender,age of the victims. It was Genocidal massacre targeted against a particular ethno-religious group regardless of any other factor
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At that time, #Congress govts were in power in both places. Rajiv Gandhi initially announced that he would visit Meerut, but later postponed it.political leadership’s apathy towards the hapless victims &general nonchalance over the situation was conspicuous in the choices it made

Everyone knows the truth - who has done it - but justice has not been done. We have been to courts so many times but of no use. I believe in God and strongly feel that he will do justice with us and the criminals and those who died.
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It took them precisely 2 hours to complete the task they had assigned themselves. At the end nothing stirred in #MalianaMassacre as people sat huddled together, gripped by fear as the stench of smoke and human bodies rose about them.
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