Fear, silent migration: A year after anti-Muslim riots in Delhi
Al JazeeraMuslim victims of last year’s Delhi violence say they have been forced to sell their properties due to a lack of security. “We are currently busy dealing with the farmer protests,” Chinmoy Biswal, a senior Delhi Police public relations officer told Al Jazeera, referring to the months-long farmers’ protests on the outskirts of Delhi against new farm laws. Farhana Khan, a local activist who has been helping the victims, said that ahead of Diwali – the Hindu festival of lights – last November, some “elements” used to gather near a crematorium in Shiv Vihar and would chant “Jai Shri Ram” whenever the adhan was called from a nearby mosque. “The house wasn’t put to flames only because it would have burned adjoining houses owned by Hindus too,” said Shahnaz’s sister, Nazia Parween. “Before the riots, both Hindus and Muslims used to come to my shop but now majority of non-Muslims have stopped buying from my shop.” Muhammad’s shop was first looted and then burned in last year’s violence.
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‘If we convert to Islam, will you give us houses?’: Pakistani Hindu refugees ask Centre
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Delhi riots aftermath: Muslims lock up homes, flee to find shelter in other parts of city, country; many are rebuffed
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US lawmakers express concern over Delhi violence as toll rises to 27, say country must speak up against anti-Muslim violence
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For Muslims in India, ‘entire neighborhoods have gone empty in fear’
LA Times
Modi says India’s minorities are living in world of imaginary fear. Muslims disagree
CNN
New Delhi residents live in perpetual fear of the immigrant Muslims in their neighbourhood
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