1992 Mumbai killings planned and supported by indian police

[Murshad]

 

[Murshad]

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cMxP7EP5KDM[/media] - Part 2 Anti-Muslim Bombay Riot Expose

 

[Murshad]

Parallels with Mumbai, 1992-93

V.K. RAMACHANDRAN


IN many important respects, events in Coimbatore in 1997-98 followed, on a smaller scale, the pattern of events in Mumbai in 1992-93. Both industrial cities, they were subjected to communal propaganda for more than a decade. (While Hindu fundamentalist organisations carried on this process of communalisation on a more sustained basis, Muslim fundamentalist organisations and speakers also contributed to the tension in Coimbatore.) In both cities, incidents that were well within the competence of the police and civil administration to control (that is, tension following the death of two head-load workers and the arson in Radhabai Chawl in January 1993 in Mumbai and the killing of constable Selvaraj in Coimbatore in November 1997) were used as a pretext for large-scale and savage attacks on the Muslim masses of the cities. In both cities, large sections of the police force were communalised and colluded with Hindu communalists in the attacks on Muslims. In both cities, within three months of communal violence in which the Muslim masses were the worst sufferers, hard-core Muslim fundamentalists responded by detonating a series of bombs that killed, maimed and injured innocent people and worsened communal and civil tension immeasurably. And in both cases, it is almost certain that the persons who organised the bombings received assistance from abroad.
As in Mumbai in 1992-93, the primary victims of the communal violence of November 1997 in Coimbatore - in terms of lives lost, people injured in attacks by the police and communal rioters and property looted and destroyed - were the city's Muslims. To read the report by the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), which focusses on the anti-Muslim aspect of the communal violence in Coimbatore between November 29 and December 1, 1997, is to relive, in part and on a smaller scale, the horrors of Mumbai in 1992-93. The report describes in detail the "shooting spree" that took place on November 30, in which 17 Muslims were killed and more than 100 injured. It describes also the different ways in which individual Muslims, caught by a mob, were singled out for killing. In Mumbai in 1992-93 as well, riot victims died in terrible ways: they were victims of police bullets, of beatings, of attacks with knives, choppers, acid and jagged pieces of broken glass. Many were killed and then burnt, their corpses rendered unrecognisable.
The report describes the looting and arson that occurred as having been "systematic, pre-planned and abetted". Muslim shops and homes and the makeshift establishments of Muslim pavement vendors were destroyed and people were encouraged to loot and burn. According to the report, the execution of the campaign of arson and loot was, "to a large extent, clinically precise". When two Muslim-owned shops were separated by a Hindu-owned shop, the Hindu-owned shop "remained unscathed". Compare this with Frontline's report on Mumbai in 1993: "A prominent feature of the riots was that gangs... worked to a plan, systematically identifying Muslim homes, shops and establishments, and destroying them." (Frontline, February 12, 1993).

 

[PeaceForAll]

for heavens sake.. 9/11 was done by america in american soil - mumbai killings was done by India on India itslef, afghan bombing of indian consulate was done by india on itself. dont you think its actually funny to think like that?

 

[Murshad]

What are trying to say? It has nothing to do what you said. When a human is killed, it should always be considered a sad thing. Though there is lot of killing going on in different part of world and different reasons can be assigned to these killings but when a state sponsors genocide of her own people it should always be condemnable.

 

[graphican]

for heavens sake.. 9/11 was done by america in american soil - mumbai killings was done by India on India itslef, afghan bombing of indian consulate was done by india on itself. dont you think its actually funny to think like that?

Cannot say about the rest but 9/11 was dont by America. Its funny to imagine how could people like you mention 9/11 as a terrorist attack by two dozen people. Can you explain how could 757 evaporated? How did George W.Bush saw the second plane attacking? What about Dic Chenny's Statement who accepted he ordered to "Pull" the Building 7? Shame on the intellect of people that believes world is more stupid than they are.

 

[StingRoy]

Can we stick to the point please...
The irony is that there is corruption in the political system in India as in many countries in the neighborhood. There have been several incidents where the police have failed to stand up to their duty... thanks to the outdated weaponry, lack of professionalism, low wages.. etc etc... But to say that they "planned" the attacks it utter nonsense and inflammatory...
No government agency would plan such attacks on their own people...and I am surprised at the comments by "Murshad" and "graphican"

 

[PlanetWarrior]

It is sad and barbaric when people die because of amongst others race or religion or discrimination. It is even more hard to digest when people die in their own country because of religious intolerance. Not agreeing with the contents of this video completely, I as an Indian feel really sad for my motherland when Muslims or other minorities are killed in communal riots just because of their religion. It is usually in the poorer areas that these sort of things happen. I am glad to see that India is now strictly enforcing the anti hate speech act and that even a member of the powerful Gandhi family , Varun Gandhi was thrown into jail for making provocative statements against our Muslim brothers and sisters in India. India belongs to all of its people and those who have a problem living with any Indian must leave India and live on an island.

 

[StingRoy]

PLanetWarrior, that is an excellent example you gave about Varun Gandhi.... I think after that incident, there is more confidence in the Indian society that religious provocation cannot be tolerated at any cost...
I would like to add a few more examples on how the people have rejected the political parties who are trying to garner support in the name of religion or cultural differences. A few months back there was a anti-north indian "movement" by the MNS supporters... see the results of the recent elections...
Similarly, in the aftermath of the Orissa Hindu-Christian riots, BJP who allegedly provoked some of these riots are almost wiped out after the state elections...
Power of democracy to all... Lets forget the past and try to embrace the future...