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34 yrs after custodial massacre of Muslims by goons in uniform, justice is incomplete!
The survivors and members of the families of those killed in the #HashimpuraMassacre organised themselves to move the SC in 1995 to make the report public &to prosecute those indicted in it...
The survivors and members of the families of those killed in the #HashimpuraMassacre organised themselves to move the SC in 1995 to make the report public &to prosecute those indicted in it...
The SC refused to intervene, and instead asked the petitioners to approach the HC. The case remained unresolved in the HC, but the state government finally bowed to pressure in 1996 by filing criminal charge sheets against 19 personnel of the 41st batallion of the PAC...2/n
More than 64 senior officials were found guilty by the Crime Branch-CID, but the state govt claimed that departmental proceedings were sufficient against most of those found complicit in the crime. Not a single senior off is included in the charge sheet,..3/n
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How anti-Muslim sentiments among the police officials led to #HashimpuraMassacre:
The crime dates back to May 1987, when communal tempers India were dangerously inflamed by the dispute over the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. The CongRSS govt by Rajv Gandhi had ordered the opening..1/n
The crime dates back to May 1987, when communal tempers India were dangerously inflamed by the dispute over the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. The CongRSS govt by Rajv Gandhi had ordered the opening..1/n
of the locks of the medieval mosque, allowing Hindu prayers inside the disputed structure, and this had sparked angry protests by Muslims in many parts of the country including Meerut, where fierce riots broke out. An estimated 350 people died in these riots...2/n
The civil administration in UP failed to quell the mass violence and pressed into service 60 companies of the PAC, besides 50 gazetted police officers, the CRPF and the Army. The PAC had been raised specifically to assist in controlling riots,...3/n
— It has been 34 years since the night of 22 May, 1987 when about 45 Muslim men from Hashimpura, a settlement in Meerut, were rounded up and packed into the rear of a truck of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC).
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— On that night of May 1987, 42 of those on board the truck were killed in two massacres in neighbouring Ghaziabad dist. One along the Upper Ganga canal near Muradnagar, nd the other along the Hindon canal in Makanpur in what hav since come to be known as the #HashimpuraMassacre.
— Thirty four years after the 1987 #HashimpuraMassacre, not much has changed for the survivors and the relatives of the people killed. The wounds are still fresh, the quest for justice is still an ongoing ordeal and they no more trust men in khakis.
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
That is why justice remains suspended for the dead, maimed and broken in Maliyana
Years after the 1987 #HashimpuraMassacre and #MalianaMassacre
Not much has changed for the survivors and the relatives of the people killed. The wounds are still fresh, the quest for justice is still an ongoing ordeal and they no more trust men in khakis
Not much has changed for the survivors and the relatives of the people killed. The wounds are still fresh, the quest for justice is still an ongoing ordeal and they no more trust men in khakis
It took them precisely 2 hours to complete the task they had assigned themselves. At the end of those two hours, nothing stirred in #MalianaMassacre as people sat huddled together, gripped by fear as the stench of smoke and human bodies rose about them.
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Those who ran out to escape the inferno were showered with gunfire by PAC men positioned on rooftops. Scores fell to the bullets.”
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1987 : Twin Massacres of #Muslims at Meerut & Maliana by the Police
Initial response of the #Congress govt of massacres at Meerut & Maliana was one of denial, followed by attempts to cover up the crime. In a desperate attempt to find someone else to blame
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Initial response of the #Congress govt of massacres at Meerut & Maliana was one of denial, followed by attempts to cover up the crime. In a desperate attempt to find someone else to blame
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an Indian Embassy official explained the allegation by stating that “Police uniforms were stolen and used as a disguise by anti-social elements.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh administration, led by Chief Minister VB Singh (#Congress), claimed that the
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Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh administration, led by Chief Minister VB Singh (#Congress), claimed that the
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Muslims were the real aggressors, implying that the PAC’s was justified. Singh did suspend the PAC’s commandant, Tripathi, but after one day he was reinstated for the fear of Revolt in the PAC.
In an attempt to download Play the massacre, Union Home minister #HashimpuraMassacre
In an attempt to download Play the massacre, Union Home minister #HashimpuraMassacre
#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.
Years after the 1987 #HashimpuraMassacre and #MalianaMassacre
Not much has changed for the survivors and the relatives of the people killed. The wounds are still fresh, the quest for justice is still an ongoing ordeal and they no more trust men in #khakis
Not much has changed for the survivors and the relatives of the people killed. The wounds are still fresh, the quest for justice is still an ongoing ordeal and they no more trust men in #khakis
Hajra Bi said Our children had come back after Friday prayers when PAC climbed our terrace and asked about gunshots(imprints are still there on the walls).One of them was dancing,He mocked me asked if it was Amitabh Bachchan who had fired.They took away my son who never came back
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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