: The other virus: Hate crimes against India’s Muslims are spreading with Covid-19 #IndiaNEWS On the evening of April 3, a school teacher in Amranga, a village in Assam’s Kamrup district, called

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The other virus: Hate crimes against India’s Muslims are spreading with Covid-19 #IndiaNEWS
On the evening of April 3, a school teacher in Amranga, a village in Assam’s Kamrup district, called up the local police. He was anticipating trouble. The WhatsApp groups on his phone would not stop buzzing. A message was doing the rounds: two men from the adjacent village of Bholagaon, who had attended the religious convention organised by the Tablighi Jamaat, were hiding in the fields near Amranga. The convention, held in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area, had turned out to be the source of a large cluster of Covid-19 patients.Men in and around the area should step out of their homes to apprehend them, said messages on the WhatsApp groups. “As the rumour spread, men from all the Hindu villages in the area marched out,� said the school teacher. “I also reached the spot along with everyone.�By around 9 pm, a crowd had assembled at a plot of land where a couple of daily wage-workers had been digging a pond to set up a fishery. “These labourers had been working there for the last nine months,� said Hem Kanta Sarma, officer in charge of Palashbari police station, under whose jurisdiction Amranga falls. “There was no one who had gone to Nizamuddin.�When Kumud Das, who was overseeing the...Read more

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