巴拉特

分类： bharat

  • A police complaint has been filed in India accusing the Wall Street Journal of fueling sectarian hostility during recent unrest in Delhi

    A police complaint has been filed in India accusing the Wall Street Journal of fueling sectarian hostility during recent unrest in Delhi and falsely reporting that a mob had shouted a Hindu slogan before stabbing a man to death.
    The complaint was filed on Friday over a February 26 report in the Journal, which stated a gang of attackers chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ – a Sanskrit expression meaning ‘Glory to Lord Rama’, sometimes used by Hindus as a greeting – as they murdered intelligence officer Ankit Sharma during days of riots in India’s capital city. The formal protest, filed with police in Delhi and Maharashtra, was first reported by Indian public broadcaster Prasar Bharati.
    While the Journal relayed the claim in a quote from Sharma’s brother, Ankur, he now insists the quotation is a fake, intended to smear his late sibling.

    “I never gave such a statement to The Wall Street Journal,” Ankur told Prasar Bharati. “This is a ploy to defame my brother and my family. The Wall Street Journal is lying.”

    Sparked over a controversial citizenship law passed in December, Delhi was gripped by riots for three days starting last Sunday, with intense clashes between rival protesters leaving 39 dead and more than 200 with injuries.

  • Men ride a motorcycle past security forces patrolling a street in a riot affected area after clashes erupted between people demonstrating for and against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, February 26, 2020

    Men ride a motorcycle past security forces patrolling a street in a riot affected area after clashes erupted between people demonstrating for and against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, February 26, 2020

    Violent unrest in India’s capital has left at least 30 people dead, with more than 250 injured. After days of intense clashes between rival protesters over a citizenship law, the city has returned to relative calm.
    With two more people succumbing to serious injuries sustained during the riots, the death toll reached at least 30 early on Thursday morning, Sunil Kumar Gautam, superintendent of the Guru Teg Bahadur hospital, told ANI.
    While Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal previously called for the army to be deployed to the city to put down the unrest, so far only police have intervened, equipped with batons, tear gas, water cannon and even drones in some cases. With police making more than 100 arrests in connection to the riots and continuing patrols across New Delhi, the violence – which gripped the capital for three days – has largely come to an end.
    The UN, meanwhile, has called on all parties to avoid further escalation. A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “maximum restraint” and for “violence to be avoided,” noting that the UN chief was saddened by reports of lost lives.

    The Delhi riots have grabbed headlines in Pakistan, too. Pakistani PM Imran Khan responded to the news by blaming the spike in violence on “the Nazi-inspired RSS ideology,” referring to a right-wing Hindu nationalist organization, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

    “Now 200 million Muslims in India are being targeted. The world community must act now,” Khan said, adding that any non-Muslim minorities targeted in Pakistan would be dealt with “strictly.”

  • At least 13 people have been killed and 150 injured in sectarian clashes over a new citizenship law in Delhi, India

    At least 13 people have been killed and 150 injured in sectarian clashes over a new citizenship law in Delhi, India, since intense violence erupted in parts of the capital on Sunday, hospital officials said.
    There were reports of stone-throwing by protesters, with some seen bearing metal bars, when fresh skirmishes broke out on Tuesday between people supporting the legislation and those against it.
    Around 3,500 police and paramilitaries have been deployed, according to local authorities, with cops firing tear gas and pellets to disperse crowds of protesters.

    Delhi Police called for calm and posted a message on Twitter appealing to people not to spread rumors online that could incite further violence.