Muzaffarnagar (2013)

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1. www.dnaindia.com/india/1888043/report-dna-special-jolly-canal-killings-triggered-the-muzaffarnagar-riots

via http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=17866

dna special: Jolly canal killings triggered the Muzaffarnagar riots

Friday, Sep 13, 2013, 6:34 IST | Place: Muzaffarnagar | Agency: DNA

Pradip R Sagar

With many people still missing, dna finds out where it all began.



People at the Shahpur relief camp. They fled to the camp from their violence-hit villages. - Arjit Sen/DNA Satyender Kumar Baliyan shudders as he recounts how he escaped the massacre at Gang Nahar, popularly known as Jolly canal, last Saturday.



Baliyan, 24, was among a group of 2,000 villagers returning home after attending the Mahapanchayat hosted by several Jat communities of western Uttar Pradesh in nearby Kawal village, when they were ambushed by a mob, armed with assault rifles and other sophisticated weapons.



“Since, I was with the NCC for more than three years during my school days, I could easily tell that our assailants were using AK47 rifles and other weapons,” he told dna at the site of the massacre. The mob set on fire 18 tractor trollies and three motorbikes of the villagers.



Local people say the Jolly canal massacre turned into the communal riots of Muzaffarnagar, in which the official death toll is 45. But local people say the number is much higher.



Eyewitnesses say after the mass killings, the attackers dumped the bodies in the canal, which meets the Ganges river in adjoining Haridwar district. So far, six bodies have been fished out.



“We were unarmed. And they(attackers) ambushed us like Naxals. They started firing indiscriminately,” Baliyan said.



Omkar Singh Rana of Baseda village, cannot find his elder brother Brijpal Singh Rana since the attack on Saturday. “It is not only my elder brother... there are hundreds of people who have gone missing after the massacre. Though six bodies have been found, we are sure there will be many more,” Rana told dna.



The villagers accused the local administration of not acting swiftly.



The police allowed the attackers to flee, some said. “The district administration has not made any effort to track the missing persons or find the bodies. Even the water flow in the canal was not controlled; it was deliberately increased to sweep away the dumped bodies,” said Bhanwar Singh, pradhan of Baseda village.



The district administration has registered 40 missing complaints till Wednesday. But often cases are not registered because officials think people might have migrated to other parts of the state.



District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma admitted that the number of missing persons is more than the registered cases. “In case of the Jolly canal, we have recovered six bodies so far. Work is on to trace others, if any,” he said. “But in some cases people have migrated to other places. And since there is no contact with family members, they lodge missing complaints.”



The Jat community went on the rampage after the killings at Jolly canal. “Blaming Muslims for the Jolly canal attack, Jats set our houses on fire and killed our women and kids.”

Great pretence in the final line of the above DNA piece: i.e. it pretends that islamaniacs were not behind the massacre of Dharmics at Jolly Canal. But if the earlier (islamic) crime was merely alleged, then so too is the allegation that Dharmics retaliated on the muslims at any point after the Jolly Canal Massacre. Surely? By the same logic?



Also, the last line in the article seems to have been inserted by the DNA Editor. Note how the final quotation out-of-the-blue refers to "our houses" from an islamic's POV, yet the islamic character is not introduced in the rest of the DNA piece. (But who owns/operates DNA again?) Can here already see the careful construction of argumentation on the lines of how media eventually twisted the run-up of events to the Godhra riots, where christomedia and other christogovt mouthpieces eventually declared (and their international mentors repeated) that

1. the Hindus on the train "spontaneously combusted" and Hindus "unfairly blamed" "poor innocent" islam of having burnt the Hindus.

2. the Godhra riots that followed *were* real.

I.e. the action/Hindu victimisation was "imagined", and the reaction/riots of Hindus and Muslims (and only the islamic victimisation thereof) was "real".



Anyway, in short, Muzaffarnagar looks pretty much like it's the new Godhra for inter/national christomedia to get their dear Congress into power.