“Situation is so bad in Delhi that some fellow journalists advised me not to visit the troubled areas because the rampaging mobs catch hold of anyone who looks like a Muslim. Seems a well thought plan to keep media away.”
–tweeted by AP photojournalist Altaf Qadri @AltafQadriAP
TOI photojournalist Anindya Chattopadhyay recounts horror while covering the unrest in Maujpur, northeast Delhi on Monday. He was first stopped by mem
“Thoughts, prayers and solidarity with Muslims in Delhi who are at the mercy of murderous mobs and a partisan police force.”
–Kashmiri writer Mirza Waheed
Women & children were directly targeted in the Gujarat pogroms against Muslims, making this call for help from women in Chandbagh a very serious matter.
This testimony of a young Kashmiri boy locked up in an Indian jail resonates with testimony of political prisoners around the world who suffer lifelong health problems as a result of incarceration in squalid cells.
https://medium.com/@media_41618/a-15-year-old-kashmiri-boys-70-days-in-an-indian-jail-8b7ffba3c319
In his pathological narcissism, Trump will resent being upstaged by the Hindutva pogroms against Muslims. But Hindutva politics are his kind of politics. It can be claimed that his inflammatory comments about ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ to a stadium of nationalists was incitement to violence against Muslims & support for the occupation & lockdown of Kashmir.
“Every single thing that most of us in Kashmir said will happen, is happening one by one- but the alacrity with which it’s transpiring is surprising even to us. Anyway, as I said years ago to our students: Stay Local or Go International. There’s no safe 3rd option.”
–Kashmiri Mehboob Makhdoomi
“As the hatred and antagonism against Muslims have been completely mainstreamed in India, the lives of our political prisoners, who have been detained in jails in Delhi and all across India, are in peril. They are surrounded by inmates and police personnel who are violent nationalists. We do not know what lies ahead. Our prayers are with Indian Muslims too.”
–Kashmiri Ahmed Bin Qasim who mother & father are both political prisoners
This article includes videos & photos of the Hindutva pogrom against Muslims in Delhi that are absolutely terrifying.
Photos and videos of the violence, which left 5 people dead, showed just how tense and serious the situation is.
“If our solidarity is not with the people being attacked in Delhi, then the principles of our Azadi are flawed. This is not the time for whataboutery, whatever is happening in Delhi is sad. Kashmiris have always stood up for justice and equality but don’t let few Kashmiri idiots define the principles of Kashmiri resistance. Every person fighting for justice is one of our own. There is no difference. We stand with the people of Delhi. May you be safe.”
–Kashmiri Zachriah Sulayman
The Gujarat model of pogroms against Muslims has reached Delhi. That eventuality was made certain with the occupation & lockdown of Kashmir where the Gujarat model prevails.