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Plan was to break Jat-Muslim unityRakhi Chakrabarty<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Rakhi-Chakrabarty.cms>, TNN | Sep 11, 2013, 03.52 AM IST MUZAFFARNAGAR: City elders say Jats and Muslims here have always been together and a potent force. Any political party that won the backing of these communities has had a smooth sailing in elections. Members from both communities say forces were at work for some time to engineer a divide. "Very subtly, the communities were poisoned against each other. It was slow poisoning," a local physician said. For A Goel, a retired teacher, the scale and intensity of violence was shocking. "There was never such mistrust between communities, not even in the 1990s before or after the Babri Masjid demolition," he said. Indeed, the riots that hit Muzaffarnagar and Shamli had its seeds in a series of low-intensity clashes. Things got serious from August 18, when Jat youths teased A Hasan's daughter at Shoram and followed them to their village. Hasan's kin beat them up. The Jats retaliated. A riot followed. Cops were bystanders, locals claim. At Kawal, Shanawaz allegedly teased the sister of Jat youths Sachin and Gaurav. On August 27, Shahnawaz's cycle ran into the duo's bike. Later, they killed Shahnawaz. In retaliation, villagers lynched Sachin and Gaurav. This was when a mischievous morphed video clip appeared. Fearing escalation of tension, Muslim leaders met on August 30 at Muzaffarnagar. The DM and the SSP were present. A Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind team met Mulayam Singh on September 1 seeking paramilitary forces. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
