After a deadly attack, more than 1,500 Muslims from India, including his own citizens, excluded the authorities of militia in April.
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Back in April, militants killed 26 Hindu tourists in India, controlled by Kashmir. India accused Pakistan of attack. Islamabad denies this accusation. But human rights groups say that this left vulnerable Muslims in India, including India citizens who pay the price after. Omkar Khandekar from NPR has this report from Mumbai.
Omkar Khandakar, Byline: Over the past 10 years, a resident of Mumbai Mustafa Kamal has parked his bicycle opposite the police station and installed an impromptu product kiosk. His specialty was Jhalmuri, a fiery appetizer of spices and magnificent rice. One evening in June of this year, two constants asked his identity certificates. He showed them the four that he had, including a map of voters.
Mustafa Kamal: (not English).
Khandakar: Kamal says that the constes accused him of forged them, and they detained him. Five days later, he says that he was sent more than a thousand miles from home to the border between India and Bangladesh.
Kamal: (not in English).
Khandakar: Kamal says that the Indian border guard ordered him to leave India, or they shoot him. Kamal says that he was part of the group, which included several dozen people, all seized from Mumbai. He was allowed to return to India two days later, after the Bangladesh resident shot him, and two other men sobbing near the border. The video became viral in Indian social networks and caused a way out.
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Unknown person No. 1: (crying, speaks of Bengal).
Unknown person No. 2: (speaking of Bengal).
Khandakar: The Maharastra Police, who allegedly detained him, did not respond to NPR's requests for an interview. The human rights report states that after the April attack in Kashmir, the Indian government forcibly expelled more than 1,500 people to neighboring Bangladesh and Myanmar. And it is the Muslims of the working class that speak of a banl, which are the main goal, says TEESTA SETALVAD to a non -profit group of citizens for justice and peace. Banglla is a language separated by the Indian state of West Bengal and Bangladesh in the neighborhood. We placed these charges of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of India, but we have not heard anyone. Settalwad says that repression was intended for distraction.
Teesta setalvad: a terrorist attack of this kind creates a certain national indignation. And, unfortunately, the current political leadership prefers to use this as a case, so as not to answer questions about the failure of intelligence, etc., but saying that you had it very, very sinister planned penetration to change India’s demography.
Khandakar: Infiltration is the assertion that India Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the ruling Party of the BDP also performed at the celebration of Independence Day this year.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi: (in the speaker of the Neckanic language).
Khandakar: According to Modi, the infiltrators steal workplaces, aim at women and occupy the land. Ziya US Salam is the author of the book “To be a Muslim in Hindu India”. He says that infiltrators are a whistle for Muslims.
Ziya US Salam: The idea is to serve the Hinduta lobby and create hatred of the Middle Indian Muslims and benefit from it during the elections.
Khandakar: In India there are elections in the three states of the battle over the next 12 months. According to Salam, raising rhetoric, works to evade uncomfortable questions.
Salam: Be it, whether it be the best roads, jobs, control inflation, the construction of the best schools, providing hospitals – when BDP fails on all these fronts, they are indulged in this disagreement rhetoric.
Khandakar: Mustafa Kamal now lives in the village of his mother in East India. He says that he wants to return to Mumbai to sell Jalmuri. If the police come to him, he says that he also feeds them.
Kamal: (not in English).
Khandakar: “Because,” he says, “when you live in the sea, you do not make enemies from crocodiles.” Omkar Khandakar, NPR News, Mumbai.
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