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1n Seelampur & Jafrabad have been the epicentre of riots since December - only one community was doing the attacking. This thread collates all those old tweets from mid December 2019. DONT give me this crap it started 3 days back. Meanwhile the Supreme Court was sleeping.
2n On the 20th flag marches were conducted .... this was no peaceful place... people are just making this out as violence out of the blue. They want to suppress the fact that it has been a continuum of violence by ONE SINGLE COMMUNITY since December

3n 27th December things again escalated- remember this is all when Jamia blew up on 17th December and Seelampur was used as an “east of the Urals” safe zone to use a sovietism. Jamia was crushed so they started pretending to be peaceful at #ShaheenBagh
4n since full force hadn’t been used at Seelampur/Jafrabad and that area, things continued to fester. Note the moment drones were up in the air violence receded. The moment drones were brought down, violence increased
5n note Seelampur to Jafrabad is one ugly almost contiguous slum, known for crime. #chronologysamajhiye
6n and ooops guess what on the 27th December 5 terrorists of Islamic State #ISIS were picked up for plotting terror attacks on major political leaders. Understand this #Seelampur #Jafrabadprotest is a continuum of high crime, jihad & outright terrorism

newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/de…
7n next to give you and understanding of why a second community joined the violence yesterday, look at this map marking Seelampur green, Jafrabad/Maujpur blue & Ashok Nagar in red. These terror hives were blocking some of the main east-west arterials & has created economic chaos
8n UNDERSTAND: “retaliation” has come after 70 days of siege & blockade of the hindus of the area by a certain other community. The police stood by and did NOTHING & the liberal press was mum on this virtual “liberated zone”. Something had to give
thewire.in/communalism/de…
9n check DRONE footage from 18/12. Why drones? As @swati_gs said “you have no chance of getting between Muslim mobs ALIVE”. Note: the preponderance of violence, is perpetrated by one community but videographers can ONLY get in on the hindu side.

Just note @swati_gs didn’t say that - I’m paraphrasing her thread on why videos are only coming out in one side & not the other
10n local AAP councillor Tahir Hussain. Turns out his house on the left is being used as an armoury and fort to bombard people with petrol bombs
11n turns out that it is Hussain & his men who are alleged to have dragged young IB officer Ankit Sharma to be killed. Apparently 3 others were mutilated and killed
12n crowd of a “certain community” pelts an @ndtv journo as soon as cameras are turned on. The channel currently claiming a “brave expose” going amidst Hindu protestors, seems unwilling to exercise the same bravery with this other community & caves
13n following up on tweets 10 & 11 in this sequence, another AAP councillor has come out in support of his friend Tahir Hussain and called the dead IB officer a “Thulla” who deserved the death he got.
opindia.com/2020/02/aap-th…
14n schools burnt - anti CAA graffiti on the walls, guess who? Note this is done deliberately to destroy/delay any future these kids would have - its trying to erode the employability of a whole generation of kids
15n in Tahir Hussain’s house (the man believed to have killed Ankit Sharma) are found the remains of a minor girls burnt clothes. The worst is feared
.16n a thread on proactive riot preparations in Muslim areas. Tell me from which angle does this look like “self defence”? Also remind me again who decided to enlarge to liberated zone onto arterial mainroads & escalate this conflict?
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