North Delhi, as many states in the country, was the scene of community clashes, Saturday, without any reaction of the Modi Government.
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Jahangirpuri is now locked by dozens of armed paramilitaries and paramilitaries. This northern Delhi district – it is located near thirty kilometers from the center of the Indian capital -, dense, poor and dusty, is home to a majority of Hindus (75%) and a minority of Muslims, of which a good part is Originally from Western Bengal. The two communities have learned to coexist, each in its colony, residential blocks closed by grids and accessible by narrow alleys barely asphalted. The neighborhood has a dozen.
In the main street, on the edge of the mosque, the shops held by the Muslims fell the curtain. The religious building carries traces of weekend violence, the courtyard is cluttered with stoneware, saffron flags and glass debris.
Saturday, April 16, midday, several hundred men dressed in saffron, armed with sabers, pistols and wearing flags traveled in procession Muslim enclaves on Hanuman Jayanti, a religious holiday Hindu, with the cries of “Jai Shri Ram” (“Greate the god RAM”), the song of rallying Hindu extremists. Around 5:30 pm, when spirits were warmly heated, they went to the mosque. Heating between the two communities then broke. Several people have been injured, stores and lasted vehicles. The police intervened late to bring calm.
Ghyas Sarwab, a neighborhood Muslim, attended the stage and wants to testify. “The Hindus came from the outside, he assured. They came in the only idea of provoking our community. They organized three processions by threatening us with their swords and asking us to sing their god Ram. Politicians of the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party, the party of the Indian people, in power] were in the procession. At the time of prayer, they came to the mosque to plant the grid their saffron flags and attack with shots of stones the Muslims who were inside. “
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The police quickly draws reverse conclusions. According to the inspector dispatched on site, it was “a peaceful manifestation to mark Hanuman Jayanti” disturbed by Muslims when the procession went to the mosque. About twenty people was arrested, Muslims. The local representatives of the BJP have threw oil on fire by attaching violence to illegal migrants “Bangladais and Rohingyas” residing in the region.
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