Thread by @khanthefatima

This time last year, 19 people part of the #antiCAA protests were killed in Uttar Pradesh. I'd travelled to various districts of the state which saw heightened violence, police brutality, and mass arrests. Here are some stories that tell the horror. Never forget.

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20-year-old UPSC aspirant Suleiman was shot dead in Bijnor, along with 21-year-old Anas whose son turned seven months old just a day after he was killed. 2/n
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That's Anas' father, Arshad Hussain, standing next to the spot where his son was killed. The bloodstains were still fresh. 3/n

Photograph by: @PraveenJain2622

In Muzaffarnagar, mass arrests, vandalism of mosques and homes-- a crackdown so intense that residents said they didn't even feel such fear during 2013 riots. 4/n
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Posters of ‘wanted’ men come up in Meerut where 5 killed in violence during CAA protests.

These posters soon came up in all other districts too. 5/n
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In Lucknow, women said UP police barged into their homes, beat them up, vandalised their property. 6/n
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This is especially relevant in context of all the talk of #lovejihad in UP.

In Lucknow, man killed in violence leaves behind a converted wife & their Hindu-Muslim love 7/n
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Remember how UP CM Yogi Adityanath had sworn “revenge” on the “violent protesters” of the state? Gorakhpur residents said the police are “obeying” him word by word. 8/n
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We'd managed to get an interview with then UP Police chief (DGP). He accepted that at least 1 of the 19 killings were infact due to police firing. Also conceded the widespread videos of police brutality need to be looked into. n/n

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