Hidden Monster and Crouching Tiger!

Between human and animal, the big different is not the intelligent quotient, I think there are animals those cleverer than the human being is. Only difference can be counted is known as humanity, without this the two legged are not much differ from its four legged counterpart. If I said ‘not much differ’ then I am very soft, may be I am a human too. There are hardly a few who lived a life and die being a human where other considerable numbers are always involved in horrifying and beastly act. Often we wonder how it is possible but it is a bitter fact. Riots are a kind of manufactured disaster principally created by the opportunist like politicians for their personal gains. In India riots mostly based on religious feeling and there is no secret that it happened mainly between two communities, Hindus and Muslims. Indians had seen some worst riots and I too was a silent spectator one such. Watched with wide eyes and horror, it was the other side of the human that was as worst as like a wild hungry animal.

Here is some of the riots which taken place in India since Independent.

Partition of India

Riots after partition will be the first among others, which started on 16 August 1946. A partition plan was accepted but no large population movements were contemplated. As India and Pakistan become independent, 14.5 million people crossed borders to ensure their safety in an increasingly lawless and communal environment. While the British authority was gone, the newly formed governments were completely unequipped to deal with migrations of such staggering magnitude, and massive violence and slaughter occurred on both sides of the border along communal lines. Estimates of the number of deaths range around roughly 500,000, with low estimates at 200,000 and high estimates at 1,000,000.

1984 Anti-Sikh Riots

Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October 1984 by two of her bodyguards in retaliation for the storming of the Golden temple. After the assassination the 1984 anti-Sikh riots took place in Delhi, where government and police officials aided by some of the ministers and workers from ruling party. They were "methodically and systematically" targeting Sikhs and Sikh homes.  As a result of that 10,000-17,000 were burned alive or otherwise killed, Sikh people suffered massive property damage, and "at least 50,000" Sikhs became displaced persons. To date, the Government of India has not prosecuted any of the assailants.

Gujarat Riots

Should I say that the Gujarat is the safe heaven for rioters, because on record there are more than half a dozen riots taken place in different parts of Gujarat.  However, February 2002, Gujarat riots happened after the burning at Godhra, of a coach of the Sabarmati express which was coming from Ayodhya, carrying kar sevaks was one of the worst of all. It also said as a state sponsored riots but as of now nothing is proved. On 27 February 2002 at Godhra City  in the state of Gujarat, the Sabarmati Express train was attacked by a large Muslim mob  in a conspiracy.  As a result, 58 Hindu pilgrims, mostly women and children of ladies compartment returning from Ayodhya, were killed. The attack prompted retaliatory massacres against Muslims and communal riots on a large scale, in which 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed and 223 more people were reported missing. 523 places of worship were damaged: 298 dargahs, 205 mosques, 17 temples, and 3 churches. Muslim-owned businesses suffered the bulk of the damage. 61,000 Muslims and 10,000 Hindus fled their homes.  Nearly 10,000 rounds of bullets were fired in police shootings that killed 93 Muslims and 77 Hindus.

Mumbai Riots

It was unbelievable till its happened. After what I saw still I cannot imagine a riots in Mumbai. I was caught unaware at the first day itself. On that morning I left home little earlier than usual as for an appointment, Muslims mob started pelting stone on the local trains by which I was going to my office. It was happened on 7^th December, 1992 in between Vidyavihar and Kurla station. It was the first reaction after the Babri Masjid demolition by saffron brigades of India. The riots happened between 7th December, 1992 to 12th December and again recurs with a vengeance in first week of January 1993, that was really worst of it when whole Mumbai started burning.  The riots in Mumbai, in December 1992 and January 1993, in which around 900 people died. An estimated 575 Muslims and 275 Hindus died and 2,000 people were injured in the riots.

During that time, there was a sudden spurt in attendance at Friday namaaz in mosques, which was interpreted by the Hindu fanatics as ominous and evidencing intent to seek revenge on the part of Muslims. The Hindus replied with their ingenious Maha-artis on the street itself, ostensibly to protest against the namaaz on streets and calling of azaans from mosques. Life in Mumbai limp back to normal from 20^th  January.

To that riots and the aftermath which led to the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts. Two months later, Muslims retaliate from over the boundary by planting 13 bombs in the different parts of Mumbai. The bombs in Worli, Air India Building and Dalal Street (Share Market) were worst affected by that carnage.

!!!(Hue)man, superior to the animal in true sense, as they accustom to alter their colour like a chameleon at their wish!!!