Even the Sikhs are not Safe

Some Sikhs in the USA “partner” with Islamic supremacists like CAIR. They are siding with the Western defenders and enablers of those who brutalize, hate and oppress their people. India “Saharanpur riots were ‘meticulously planned’: Police say culprits set out to divide Sikhs and Muslims in UP,” by Piyush Srivastava, Daily Mail, July 29, 2014 (thanks to Avneet): Certain aspects of the Saharanpur clashes indicate meticulous planning by the rioters, who had a singular agenda of dividing the Sikhs and Muslims in the western Uttar Pradesh district. IG, Meerut Zone, Alok Sharma confirmed that the clashes were “pre-planned”. “The riot was pre-planned. The way the firing was done and shops were burnt indicate many possibilities…We are investigating all angles,” he said. The role of the civil and police administration is also under the scanner as the armed rioters had a free hand for nine hours till 4pm on Saturday, before the lathi-wielding policemen dispersed the mob. ADG, Telecom, Devendra Singh Chauhan admitted that the local administration could have prevented the riots if decisions were taken promptly. “The district magistrate and the senior superintendent of police are expected to take prompt decisions in such situation. The violence could have been averted if action was initiated at the proper time,” Chauhan, who has been sent to Saharanpur as special observer, said. The ADG said the rioters have been identified and police teams have been constituted to arrest them. The culprits will be booked under the stringent National Security Act, Chauhan added. The rioters had a well-chalked plan as they first set ablaze the fire-brigade office and fire tenders, crippling the department from carrying out any relief work. They then carried out looting and arson at the Ambala Road. “Some rioters were lighting Molotov cocktails and throwing them inside the shops. Despite repeated requests to impose curfew in the city, the police kept saying till 4pm that they didn’t receive any order to stop the people from gathering. Over 4,000 people had assembled at Ambala Road by 10am. They were increasingly getting violent,” claimed cloth trader Harvinder Singh, whose shop was torched. Interestingly, the disputed plot was never a major issue for the two communities until recently. The Sikhs claimed the Muslims had claimed their rights over the plot after they bought it four years ago. Though the Muslims claimed that the plot was a Waqf property, they could not prove the same in a minority commission. Later, they had withdrawn their claim over the plot and it was finally handed over to the Sikhs. Since then, it was a non-issue for the two communities. The construction work was started there a year ago without any opposition from the other side, the Sikh community claimed. But all of a sudden, some people objected to the construction by Sri Guru Singh Sabha and violence erupted on Saturday. Locals also claimed that some motorcycle-borne masked men were indiscriminately firing at whosoever was standing on their way, suggesting that they wanted to spread terror among the people for stopping construction at the plot. “We saw two masked men on a motorcycle who were firing at the passers-by in Ghantaghar area,” said Sanjeev Bhandari, whose shop was set on fire at Ambala Road. Prior to the clashes on Saturday, Saharanpur had last witnessed communal violence in December 1992, when the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya. With 247 incidents of communal violence, Uttar Pradesh has earned the dubious distinction of topping the list of states that witnessed riots in 2013 and the situation is no different in 2014. The communal violence claimed 77 lives last year in UP. While the data for this year is still being compiled by the Union home ministry, a rough estimate put the number of communal clashes reported this year to around 65, in which at least 15 people lost their lives. In Saharanpur, where clashes broke out between two communities on Saturday, three people were killed and 33 injured so far. The riots in Muzaffarnagar and its adjoining areas claimed over 60 lives during August-September last year. More than 90 people were also injured and over 50,000 people were displaced due to the communal violence. Uttar Pradesh also recorded a maximum of 360 people being injured in these incidents in 2013. The state registered a maximum of 118 communal incidents in 2012, in which 39 people were killed and 500 were injured. Maharashtra came next with 88 communal incidents last year, followed Madhya Pradesh (84), Karnataka (73), Gujarat (68), Bihar (63) and Rajasthan (52). A total of 823 such incidents were reported from across the country last year. A total of 133 people were killed and 2,269 injured in these incidents. While 12 people were killed in Maharashtra in these incidents, 11 people were killed in MP during the period.