Thread by @rkarnad

I'm at Mustafabad, near the Loni Border, and new fires (set post-9pm) are burning in front of our eyes - Muslim jhuggis and tempos, according to onlookers - by masked men shouting JSR. Delhi Police are present saying they are unable to intervene.

If you are concerned about this being fake news, it is all on video, coming out on the Wire tomorrow, also recorded by three other reporters from different orgs - all of whom had to literally run across the border to UP police thana (Loni Road) where the police were more helpful.

These are the exact coordinates according to GoogleMaps:
B-4, Street Number 5, Johripur Extension, Johripur, ext, Delhi 110094
28.7097773, 77.2866380

The jhuggis in question were empty - vacated yesterday by families fleeing the area, other residents said.

For corroboration you can check with @NikhilCariappa1 @sighyush - we met there and moved together for safety - or @haramitheatre, who I went out with.

https://twitter.com/sighyush/status/1232358691409682432?s=19

In the Wire's evening report on mob violence in Mustafabad, watch the footage of (Mahavat Hindu) slum-dwellers describing the arsonists:
“Kehte they tum Jai Shri Ram bolte raho aur bachte raho – tum nahi bologe tho mare jaoge."
#DelhiRiots #DelhiPolice
thewire.in/communalism/de…

Seems increasingly clear: What began with pro-govt gangs unleashed on protest sit-ins, blew up into mob violence between communities, then continued for many hours longer as Hindutva mobs alone running riot with impunity.
No need to erase any victims nor make false equivalences.

Conforms with what I witnessed in Maujpur 8pm-midnight Tuesday. In Muslim lanes, men were nervous, cowering from the line of sight / fire of police / CRPF.
Out on the main roads, armed, masked men with saffron tilaks (some of them drunk) were moving freely, in police presence.

All that is apart from the open arson we recorded taking place further north in #Mustafabad.