The violence broke out two-three days back. It’s claimed it’s between the supporters of CAA and anti-CAA. There’s a clear footage of mob marching the streets and the police standing idle, and at some places dispersing them out with the teargas. Violence and the mentality of the mobs and the conscious of the police brought back the memories of the Sikh Genocide 1984.[1]
People have suggested, and it’s convincing too, that the 1984 pogrom was a planned attack on Sikhs. Its truthiness can be seen from the places picked by the mobs; those places where the Sikhs were living in numbers were flooded by the angry mobs-turned terrorists to kill the Sikhs. The situation couldn’t have been possibly imaginable unless you’re there, surrounded by the rioters. The feeling of not knowing what’s going to happen next in these scenarios is very dangerous and heart-wrenching.
The similar events of the past two-three days showed us with conviction how the mobs work and how the police help them. Kapil Mishra’s comments before the situation became very tense and are very alarming.[2]
DCP is standing with us. I am saying it on your behalf that we’re keeping peace until Trump is here (the US President). After he’s gone, we will not even listen to you if the carriageway/roads are not cleared (due to the protests.)
If a critic of the ruling party, not only just BJP but any party that could have been there, had said something like that a criminal case would have been filed against him. This is the privilege of the Forces and the politicians that they can get away with almost all the things that a common person cannot. There are politicians who have the criminal cases pending and are in the Indian Parliament. If that’d been made possible, the comments of Kapil Mishra or any other politicians or the police officer[3] is nothing new.
It was shown as a CAA and anti-CAA supporters. It’s true or not can’t be said. Perhaps, in the very beginning it was like that, and later it came out of the hands of these people and the mobs were goaded by some people with vested interests (politicians?). People were beaten and the properties were burned down. Thirteen people have died in the clashes, most of whom died because of the bullet injuries. A person in the civil dress can be seen with a gun in his hand. Both the parties, CAA and anti-CAA supporters, are calling them other party’s member. Whoever he might be, whatever his affiliations to the group is, it is an open challenge. The video showed an officer approaching the man and then he pulled his gun out. The officer retraced his steps back.
Some people see it as a Hindu-Muslim matter rather than CAA and anti-CAA. The reason being the properties of Muslims were set ablaze by the miscreants. The Indian Express also mentioned this incident. The mob let go of a journalist because he was a Hindu. Anti-Muslims chants were also raised by the mobs. The mobs don’t care about your age. They are there to kill. An autorickshaw driver and a person who went to buy some milk were also in the dead list.
I believe the Indians can never learn from the past. 1984 and 2002 pogroms should have been enough for us to know the hatred and killing are not going to help the common people but politicians. Common people should be cautious about their safety. The report in the Indian Express showed a man, probably a Hindu, saying the Muslims threw stones at them and they heard an idol was burned down by them, now they can’t keep quiet.
Everywhere the story will be same. There will be Hindus whose feeling got hurt, and there will be Muslims whose emotions were hurt, in any Hindu-Muslim clashes. Not only the Hindu-Muslim but any other clashes between different religions and groups we can see the feelings clouding their judgement and they go on a spree to kill others. Whatever the hurt you’ve received from your end you shouldn’t kill innocents. That is not only repulsive but inhumane too.
I urge all the people who’re reading this. Don’t escalate the situation. Don’t kill each other in the name of religion. Learn from the past. If you are a sane person, if you have a heart, if you have feelings, then your wrongdoing of the past will haunt you in future, and there will be no escape and you will regret it every moment you live on this planet.
The police should be independent of the political spectrum. There shouldn’t be any pressure on the police. They should be able to handle these situations, otherwise it will not be wrong to say what Prakash Singh (the Chairman of Indian Police Foundation) said of the police:
They were servants of the British during the colonial rule. They are servants of the ruling party now.
[1] Thousands of Sikhs were killed in daylight for days after the assassination of the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
[2] DCP sahib hamare saamne kharhe hai. Main aapke behalf pe yeh baat keh raha hoon. Trump k jaane tak to hum shanti se ja rahe hai. Lekin uske baad hum aapki bhi nahi sunege agar raaste khali nahi hue to.
[3] Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta comments on the Kartarpur Corridor that it has the potential to bring the radicalized people inside the Indian side. He apologized conditionally after that.