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Thread: #MalianaMassacre a Tale of Injustice in India
It has been 36 years since 72 Muslims were brutally killed in the small town of #Maliana, in #UttarPradesh by provincial police force. On 01 April, 40 accused in the #massacre during the 1987 riots in Maliana...,
It has been 36 years since 72 Muslims were brutally killed in the small town of #Maliana, in #UttarPradesh by provincial police force. On 01 April, 40 accused in the #massacre during the 1987 riots in Maliana...,
...Meerut were acquitted, while 23 accused have left this world and 30 accused are missing, against whom the trial will continue. The prosecution failed to produce sufficient evidence before the court, due to which benefit of doubt was given to the accused. #muslimsinindia
It took 36 years for the court to pronounce the verdict i.e. those who were accused in youth were acquitted in old age and children whose parents were killed have crossed puberty. Their families still await even the first glimmer of justice. #MalianaMassacre #IndianSupremeCourt
#Hashimpura massacre in #Meerut, UP is among the most dreadful targeted killings of Muslims in independent India. It took place on this date, 22 May, 1987 during the 1987 Meerut communal #riots during March to June 1987 with a death toll of more than 350.
Dreaded Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) rounded up 42 Muslim youth from #Hashimpura area of city, took them to outskirts and shot them in cold blood dumping their bodies in a canal. Had it not been chance survival of a youth, #HashimpuraMassacre wouldn't have been ever known.
As ghastly massacre splashed in media, 19 PAC men became known to have done the #HashimpuraMassacre. It took 13 years for 16 of them to surrender in May 2000. They were readily released on bail. In 2002 the case was transferred to a Sessions Court at the Tis Hazari court, Delhi.
Zainul Ansari, an 80 yr old non hindu, hacked to death, then burned in public by the #hindutvaterrorists.
Thread on that and on the role of Sitamadi's SP Vikas Burman:
Thread on that and on the role of Sitamadi's SP Vikas Burman:
19/20 October, 2018. Sitamani, Bihar.
The police laid out all routes for the procession of Durga Pooja. But it got hacked by the #Hindutva who forcefully took it through Madhuvan, a muslim dominated area.
The police laid out all routes for the procession of Durga Pooja. But it got hacked by the #Hindutva who forcefully took it through Madhuvan, a muslim dominated area.
After the 1992 riots, few areas of Sitamani are considered extremely sensitive, and hence, taking religious processions through them is not allowed by the police. Madhuvan is one of those areas. Still, the #hindutvaterrorists forced their way in.
The Delhi High Court's #Hashimpura verdict sentencing 16 former policemen to life imprisonment for killing 42 unarmed Muslim men in cold blood in 1987 will finally give the families of Hashimpura, who have been let down so far by the criminal justice system, some sense of justice
The Delhi High Court while passing the #Hashimpura verdict said “The prolongation of the trial for over two decades, compounded by the endemic systemic delays, have frustrated the attempts at securing effective justice for the victims.”
“Justice” occupies pride of place in the Preamble to the Constitution of India. But in Hashimpura, the actions of politicians, the police, and to some measure the courts, resulted in justice being denied till now.
