Thread by @Inquilabo

Years after the 1987 #HashimpuraMassacre and #MalianaMassacre
Not much has changed for the survivors and the relatives of the people killed. The wounds are still fresh, the quest for justice is still an ongoing ordeal and they no more trust men in #khakis

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Hajra Bi said Our children had come back after Friday prayers when PAC climbed our terrace and asked about gunshots(imprints are still there on the walls).One of them was dancing,He mocked me asked if it was Amitabh Bachchan who had fired.They took away my son who never came back

Haneef said, "PAC desperately tried to enter house and then told me to come outside. I was the first one to be arrested. Later other men from the locality also assembled and formed a line. We were told to keep our hands up and were taken to civil lines police
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station and were beaten as if cotton was rugged before it gets filled inside a quilt. I was bleeding very badly but to make sure that others were not beaten like I was, I started painting their heads and faces with my blood in a bid to project them as already thrashed by the

policemen. Later, we were sent to Fatehgarh jail, where policemen abused us and threatened us that they we will dig your graves and bury us
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Mujeeb-ur Rahman recalls,When our truck reached the canal,we were taken out & shot at point blank range.I was shot in the leg,uncle was shot in the chest and he died on the spot. As the killing spree continued, I was thrown in the canal. Somehow I survived.
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Zareena Bano recalls the fateful night in tears. Emphasising on the denial of justice in India,They killed my husband & son. Since then I have been waiting for the perpetrators to be brought to justice or even get imprisoned. But that has not happened yet. #HashimpuraMassacre

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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Babbudin says, "I was a child when the massacre happened and was terrified with the intensity of brutality. #PACasked the men of our locality to gather outside on the Hapur’s road and took some 400-500 men to Ganga Canal, Muradnagar. They pulled the men out of the truck and

started firing and threw the bodies into the canal. Others were taken at Hindon and shot there. I survived because the bullets couldn’t kill me and I was left on the bridge on the presumption that I was dead
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It took them precisely two hours to complete the task they had assigned themselves. At the end of those two hours, nothing stirred in #MalianaMassacre as people sat huddled together, gripped by fear as the stench of smoke and human bodies rose about them. Those who ran out to

escape the inferno were showered with gunfire by #PAC men positioned on rooftops. Scores fell to the bullets.”
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They #PAC targeted #Muslims to kill as they were shot on the head.The most horrific incident was that 11 members of one family were killed and their bodies thrown in well. Another six persons of a family were burnt alive while senior officers of the district were mute spectators.

Both events were unfortunate equally horrifying, but #HashimpuraMassacre more serious worrisome given that all those killed were under police custody & not victims of mob violence, Vibhuti Narain Rai, novelist and SP of Gzbd at that time, writes in his book , Hashimpura, May 22

Soon after the incident, there was some speculation in the press that a brother of a locally posted Major Satish Chandra Kaushik (prabhat kaushik )had died of gunshot injuries on 21.5.87 in Mohalla Hashimpura. According to the report, Prabhat was an #RSS worker

It was said that as a consequence of this personal tragedy Major Satish Chandra Kaushik engineered the #HashimpuraMassacre on the Upper Ganga and Hindon canals. To revenge the death of his brother prabhat kaushik ,who was an #RSS worker according to report
outlookindia.com/magazine/story…

In 2013, Rai, who was heading the #HashimpuraMassacre investigation before the CID took over, met the 75-year old aunt of Major Kaushik. According to Rai, she called the killings “an ideal atonement by the Muslim community for the murder of her younger nephew”

More than a dozen witnesses testified before the CID that “Major Pathania was ordering people with a loudhailer to come out of their houses.” He was later issued several summons by the court, even a notice to the defence ministry in 2013, but never turned up.
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Unlike #HashimpuraMassacre,where the then Gzbd SP made sure that a just FIR was lodged against the PAC men….law enforcement agencies were careful in registering a weak case in #MaliyanaMassacare
That is why justice remains suspended for the dead, maimed and broken in Maliyana

The relation between the Indian state & #minorities is almost the same now as it was then in 1987 or even earlier, in the 1950s and the 1960s. The same absence of trust, the same hatred, the same prejudices, the same notions, and the same requirement and attempt to

prove their ‘Indian-ness’. Nothing has changed. It is as if the more things change, the more they remain the same. Or perhaps, worsen,” Rai wrote in his daring account of the Hashimpura horror

eleventhcolumn.com/2020/05/22/whe…

At that time, #Congress govts were in power in both places. #RajivGandhi 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