Assam, September 24, 2021 : In India, a 12-year-old Shakh Farid, a Class 7 student, was killed in Indian Assam police firing after he had left home on Thursday afternoon to go the post-office to get his Aadhaar card. He returned home dead on a horse cart. human rights newsAround late afternoon, Farid’s parents heard that their son was killed. He was identified with the Aadhaar card which was in his pocket. His body was taken away in about three hours, according to the family. Along with Fareed, a 33-year-old man,Moinul Hoque, the video of whose shooting went viral, fell to the police bullets on Thursday.
The killings drew widespread condemnation from people across in India.
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Delhi Police detained a group of activists who gathered outside the Assam Bhavan in New Delhi on Friday. The activists belonging to the Fraternity Movement were protesting against Thursday’s killing in Assam’s Sipajhar in Darrang district that has shocked the every one. There, police firing claimed the lives of two of the protestors, including one who was brutalized by a photographer hired by the local administration.
A little later fraternity Movement president Shamsher Ibrahim appeared at the scene. He too was dragged away into the police van while he was speaking with the media.
“What happened in Assam is actually state-sponsored genocide,” Ibrahim said. “Assam is an experimental land for NRC, a racial law — referring to an exercise that was completed in August 2019 to prepare a list of citizens. We should not stay silent. We should raise our voice, that is why youth under the banner of the Fraternity Movement gathered here.”
Another activist Abu Jafar Molla called the police action “barbarity and heartless”. He said the eviction process is aimed at ethnic cleansing of Muslims of Assam.
On September 21, the state government demolished homes of 800 families in a Muslim dominated greater Dholpur area of Darrang district’s Sipajhar revenue circles to clear 4,500 bighas of land of “illegal encroachments”.
Meanwhile, All India Students Association has given a protest call at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Satuday, September 25 against killings in Assam. The AISA poster for protests said that the group demands the resignation of Superintendent of Police Darrang district who is brother of state chief minister.
Welfare Party of India has condemned the gruesome eviction drive undertaken during the Pandemic in Darrang district and held Assam Chief Minister Sarma accountable and demanded his immediate resignation.
Party’s National President Dr SQR Ilyas strongly criticised the barbaric and inhuman act adopted during the forceful eviction drive of the minorities in the Darrang district of Assam is an oppressive move by the BJP government. He said the incident is highly deplorable and is a state-sponsored terror. He called it an attempt for ethnic cleansing of Bengali Muslims in a free democratic country.
Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO), alongwith other groups, has started protests against the gruesome killings of two Muslims in Darrang district of Assam by the state police.
Following a nationwide protest call by SIO, agitations were held in various parts including Delhi, Kolkata (West Bengal), Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), Darbhanga (Bihar), Nagpur (Maharashtra) and several places in Kerala. The organisation has demanded swift action against the police personnel involved in the violent attack on the Muslims displaced from their homes.
AMU students protest against Assam killing
“The cold-blooded killing of two Muslims, and the desecration of one of the deceased’s body, shows the cruel and communal face of the fascist Hindutva state. The targetted witch hunt of minorities, especially Muslims, by the state and the encouragement given to ‘fringe’ and vigilante groups by state agencies, marks a disturbing slide in the security situation in Assam”, said Mohammad Salman Ahmad, National President, SIO.
He added, “The Himanta Biswa Sharma administration is using every trick in the book to systematically marginalize, aleniate and disenfranchise the Muslim population in the state. In the process, it appears successful in polarising a large section of the society, including the police force.”
Ever since the BJP has come to power in Assam, it has started eviction of thousands of people in areas dominated by those from the minority community. The 900 families evicted in Darrang district urgently need food, shelter and legal assistance. Instead, the state unleashed terror on then, killing two and injuring several others.
“It’s the legal and moral responsibility of the state government to rehabilitate more displaced families in Darrang district and elsewhere. The United Nations has recognised protection against forced evictions and the arbitrary destruction and demolition of one’s home as an important human rights. The Supreme The Supreme Court of India, in several judgements, has also held that adequate housing is a fundamental right emanating from the right to life protected by the Constitution,” said Salman Ahmad.
SIO has demanded that the state government must ensure that justice is delivered to the vicitms by punishing the concerned officials and police officers behind such a cruel attack. The organisation also demanded that the report of the judicial enquiry is made public as soon as possible and compensation of Rs 1 Crore each to the families of the two deceased and Rs 50 lakh each to the seriously injured. agencies