Muzaffarnagar pointed towards a new kind of riots. The strategy there seems to follow from the lessons learned from what went wrong in Gujarat 2002, where the high number of Muslims killed (790) attracted enormous press and civil society attention around the world, and created a political albatross that dogs Modi to this day. Hence keep the number of actual killings low and instead compensate for that by increasing those displaced and uprooted from their land and homes—clearly the pattern in Muzaffarnagar riots, where the thrust was on displacing Muslims (50,000), shattering their economic base and means of livelihood, rather than on killings per se (only 37 Muslims killed). -https://diigo/01nyfn
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:21:32 +0000
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