India: Worst mass violence in Delhi in decades kills 13 during Trump visit

Mass Hindu-Muslim violence engulfs Delhi today during Trump and Melania's suck-up session with Modi.

From the Washington Post:

“Rioters roamed the streets with iron rods and wooden sticks, demanding to know whether people were Hindus or Muslims. Mosques were damaged and shops were set ablaze, sending smoke billowing high into the air. People with gunshot wounds and blunt trauma from hurled stones rushed into a nearby hospital.”

The video and photos of the bloody violence are horrifying. None are published by us in this blog post, but some are shown in the embedded tweets that follow.

Excerpt:

The riots represent a serious escalation of tensions after months of protests in response to a controversial citizenship law and growing frictions between supporters and opponents of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (...)

This week’s violence in northeastern Delhi is the worst in the capital since at least 1992, when there were nationwide riots, and possibly since the anti-Sikh riots of 1984.

The trigger for the clashes came when Kapil Mishra, a local leader of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, on Sunday threatened to clear a sit-in mounted by protesters, nearly all Muslim women, against the citizenship law. He said he would take no action while Trump was visiting, but that if police did not move the protesters soon, he would take matters into his own hands.

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PHOTO: ”President Trump and the First Lady in India,” Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead, PUBLIC DOMAIN.

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are presented with a gift by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a tour of the home of Mahatma Gandhi Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, at Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, India.

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Many victims felled by bullets in Delhi clashes https://t.co/SBGRAsTlVg

— The Hindu (@the_hindu) February 25, 2020

National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval reviews the security situation in North-East Delhi. #DelhiViolence https://t.co/Nm146mT9da pic.twitter.com/Tdlo4WKESi

— ANI (@ANI) February 25, 2020

Chaos, Panic In GTB Hospital As Those Injured In Delhi Violence Rushed In https://t.co/WdEz0rPCZu

— NDTV News feed (@ndtvfeed) February 25, 2020

Mr Modi, Mr Shah, you and your people and your values have turned Delhi into Gujarat. A place of hate, violence, impunity, and bigotry.

— Tunku Varadarajan (@tunkuv) February 25, 2020

Trump praised India's PM Modi for “working very hard on religious freedom.”

But just 10 miles away, in New Delhi's working-class neighborhood of Maujpur, tensions boiled over into violence.

At least 13 people (Muslims and Hindus) were killed.

PHOTOS: https://t.co/jaUgL47ydq

— Kainaz Amaria (@kainazamaria) February 25, 2020

These visuals from Delhi have left me absolutely gutted. Never thought I would be alive to witness yet another pogrom.

— aparna (@FuschiaScribe) February 25, 2020

Trump’s witnessing first hand the poor air quality in India — very thick smog in Delhi today.

2/3 of world’s most polluted cities are in India, @iainmarlow reports https://t.co/m617XLxaFZ pic.twitter.com/7GHcYIUL0p

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 25, 2020

Hindu-Muslim violence has broken out in Delhi, sparked by protests over Modi's divisive new citizenship law. “The Muslims have other countries they can go to, like Syria or Nigeria. They need to get out of India,’’ one Hindu told @gettleman @suhasiniraj https://t.co/fwvKQueFTa

— Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) February 25, 2020

The scariest part of what’s happening in Delhi is the total radicalisation and dehumanisation of Delhi Police.

— Rituparna Chatterjee (@MasalaBai) February 25, 2020

#DelhiViolence | A man with a gun, seen around around 3.30 pm on 24 February, in Yamuna Vihar, across the road from Chand Bagh, in northeast Delhi.

Photograph by Shivam Khanna. pic.twitter.com/L8JgtbzWOy

— The Caravan (@thecaravanindia) February 25, 2020

At least 13 people are dead and hundreds injured after days of violent protests in New Delhi.

Protesters and supporters of India's new citizenship law clashed in the most deadly confrontation since the law was passed. #DelhiRiots2020

Warning: Graphic images. pic.twitter.com/Hx6oZFYjJ7

— AJ+ (@ajplus) February 25, 2020

On-ground reporting from a hospital in NE Delhi where people began flooding in w/ bullet and multiple stab wounds.

Many died simply because the ambulances to carry them to a bigger facility were barred from entering.

Only a late night court order allowed them to pass through. https://t.co/Aq7Oa4K2bG

— Yashica Dutt (@YashicaDutt) February 25, 2020

Delhi police, like other police forces across India, is quite comfortable providing cover for, while turning a blind eye to, violence against Indian Muslims by pro-Modi Hindu nationalist mobs. Shameful. https://t.co/kziiVNgyQj

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 25, 2020

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