India Muslims receive an increasing violent reaction after the Kashmir attack

The widespread frustration and demolition of property targeting Muslims in India has raised fears that the right -wing nationalist nationalists Campaign from persecution Against the largest minority group in the country.

The general anger was amplified after 26 people-all of whom were Hindu tourists-were killed by militants near Pahalagam in part of Kashmir, a Muslim-majority area. India said that Pakistan had a supportive hand in the attack, an accusation that Pakistan denies.

India appears to be preparing to strike Pakistan militarily in response to the terrorist attack, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledges to hunt terrorists and “destroy” safe havens. A minister from the Pakistani government said on Tuesday that Pakistan believes that the Indian strike is imminent.

So far, the central government in India has focused on implementing a series of punitive measures against Pakistan, including the threat to disrupt the flow of rivers across the border. But right -wing Hindu officials and groups have intensified the harassment of Muslims, which were put in a campaign against illegal immigrants.

In many states run by the Bharatiya Janata party of Mr. Modi, local officials used the moment to chase what they call “illegal Bangladeshis” and Rohingya, the Muslim minority who fled from Myanmar. Such stickers are often used, including “Pakistani” to target Muslim immigrants from other parts of India.

The killing of Muslims was reported in two states, Uttar Pradesh and Carnataka, where media reports indicate that they are hate crimes.

Inside Kashmir, the security forces arrested hundreds while they sought the perpetrators of the April 22 attack, and they detonated the homes of the people who accused them of terrorist affiliations. Surveying operations, which included the detention of 2000 people according to one official, are similar to the collective penalties carried out by the authorities after attacks on the security forces in Kashmir.

In other states, the Kashmirians reported harassment and violence, where the right -wing groups depict the attack on Kashmiri Species on the side of the road And the threat of violence if the Kashmirians do not leave.

“The attack was in Bahama terrible but it should not become an excuse to engage in revenge and attacks on minorities, including arbitrary arrests or brief sanctions,” said Minakshi Ganguli, deputy director of Asia in Human Rights Watch.

“The extremist broadcasting networks and social media users incite the hate” that led to violence.

The immediate reaction was targeted after the terrorist attack on the Kashmiris, and soon spread to a broader feeling of Muslims. Analysts said this had strengthened a demon for Muslims that Mr. Modi’s party had been working for a long time to unify the Hindu majority in India.

In the days after the attack, Kashmiri students studying in cities around India have informed harassment and threats. Ammar Abdullah, the best elected official of Kashmir, sent government ministers to different cities to help “ensure the safety and welfare of the Kashmiris.

In the state of Uttar Pradesh, Muslim restaurant worker He was shot and wounded on April 23. The attackers, who announced themselves members of a Hindu group, issued a video claiming responsibility and saying, “I swear to India that I will take revenge on 26 with 2,600 of them.” (However, state police said that killing was linked to a conflict around food.)

In the state of Karnataka, another Muslim man I was executed To repeat the pro -Pakistan slogans, according to Local news reports.

The most intense work came in Gojarat.

On Monday, the state police chief said that his officers arrested 6,500 “suspects of Bangladesh citizens.” Video clips of the detention car showed that men are being transported across the streets inside Kabalin of ropes.

In reference to the extent to which the arrests are not distinguished, the police chief said only that 450 detainees have been found so far to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

The government also in Gojarat also announced a campaign of demolition in the Muslim, Muslim neighborhoods near a lake, which showed drones from bulldozers and discharge trucks that are lined up for the process that they involve more than 2000 police officers. By Tuesday evening, the state’s interior minister, Harsh Sangafi, said that about 2000 huts were demolished in a campaign against “illegal Bangladeshis”.

Harsh Mandar, a social activist, said that the Indian Muslims’ coating as “Bangladesh” was an ancient cup used by Mr. Modi’s party.

Court petitions were rejected by the residents who are asking for a stop on Tuesday, because the government submitted a National security argument.

The petitioners argued that they were citizens in India with documents and lived in the region for decades. They admitted that the demolitions had occurred in an area that the government claimed to be a public land, but said it had occurred without prior notice or legal procedures.

The petitioners in the city of Ahmedabad in Googai said that the detainees had been subjected to “nursery violence, atrocities and insult”, although the police soon realized that “more than 90 percent of those detained” were Indian citizens.

Mr. Mander said that the procedures against Muslims: “They are all signs of what the state is doing to use its authority and its authority in illegal and unconstitutional ways against a specific society.”

Queen Rajand Nanda ShokatAnd Pragarti kilo by The reports contributed.