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The relation between the Indian state & minorities is almost the same now as it was then in 1987 or even earlier, in the 50s & the 60s. The same absence of trust, the same hatred, the same prejudices, the same notions, and the same requirement and attempt to
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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
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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

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

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 & were beaten as if cotton was rugged before it gets filled . I was bleeding very badly but to make sure that others were not beaten like I was, I started painting their heads & faces with my blood in a bid to project them as already thrashed by the
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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. PAC asked 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
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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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They PAC targeted Ms to kill as they were shot on the head.The most horrific incident was that 11 of a family were killed & their bodies thrown in well. Another 6 of a family were burnt alive while senior officers were mute spectators.
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