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Also, media and press gave communal tone to crime incident by two Muslim boys, which lead to widespread violence. Hindus Muslims 55 [15] 200+ These riots shook Jawaharlal Nehru as he never expected communal riots of such intensity in independent India. Hindu nationalist organizations including ABVP, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh played a major ...
Sangh leaders [124] [125] as well as the Gujarat government [126] [127] maintain that the violence was rioting or inter-communal clashes—spontaneous and uncontrollable reaction to the Godhra train burning. The Sachar Committee Report was setup by the then Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh to study the socio-economic condition of Muslims ...
The 2023 Haryana riots commonly referred to as the Nuh violence were a series of clashes in northern India that originated in the state of Haryana and have subsequently spread to nearby regions. On 31 July 2023, communal violence erupted in the Nuh district of Haryana between Muslims and Hindus during an annual Brajmandal Yatra pilgrimage ...
Dhammayietra, an annual peace march in Lampatao, Cambodia at Thailand border against communal violence. Communal violence is a form of violence that is perpetrated across ethnic or communal lines, where the violent parties feel solidarity for their respective groups and victims are chosen based upon group membership. [1]
The 1969 Gujarat riots involved communal violence between Hindus and Muslims during September–October 1969, in Gujarat, India.The violence was Gujarat's first major riot that involved massacre, arson, and looting on a large scale.
[25] [26] Communal clashes erupted in Lahore and Amritsar on 4 March after Hindus and Sikhs began demonstrations against the Pakistan demand. On 5 March, which marked the Hindu festival of Holi , armed Muslim mobs started attacking Hindus and Sikhs in several cities of West Punjab , including the cantonment town of Rawalpindi and Multan ...
Communal violence in India is not new, with periodic clashes breaking out ever since the British partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, but observers say that religious polarization has ...
[4] [7] The first person killed for communal reasons however was a Hindu store owner, Shashi Bhushan. [9] In the subsequent communal fighting, on the morning of the 17th, at least 15 and likely many more people were killed and hundreds of business were burnt in the vicinities of Hapur Road, Golekuan, Pilokheri, Lakhipura, and Shyam Nagar.