“In Delhi carnage of Muslims, state-sponsored terror through police & RSS gangs is going to lead to radicalisation of the 200 million Indian Muslims just as the Kashmiri youth has been radicalised through the oppression of Indian Occupation forces & deaths of almost 100,000 Kashmiris,” the prime minister posted on his Twitter handle.
He also shared the images from New Delhi depicting the children mourning over bodies of their slain parents, injured lying on streets, Muslim families fleeing the area, ransacked houses, gutted mosque and markets. “I have been predicting that unless the international community intervenes these developments will have disastrous consequences not only for the region but eventually for the world also,” he remarked.
A day earlier on Friday, Indian police detained hundreds of people following days of the worst bout of communal violence in the capital in decades.
At least 38 people were killed in Hindu-Muslim violence this week, police said, amid mounting international criticism that authorities failed to protect minority Muslims.
The clashes began over a citizenship law that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government introduced in December providing a path to Indian citizenship for six religious groups from neighbouring countries – but not Muslims.
Critics say the law is discriminatory and comes on top of other measures such as withdrawal of autonomy for Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir that has deepened disquiet about the future of India’s 200 million Muslims.
The violence morphed into street battles between Hindu and Muslim groups with the police largely ineffective in ending the violence.
The Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) condemned the violence against Muslims and vandalism of mosques and Muslim-owned properties.
US Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders accused President Donald Trump of failing on the issue of human rights after he refused to be drawn into criticising New Delhi for its handling of the violence.
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