Tripura: Nightmare for Muslims as Hindutva mobs unleash terror

A massive wave of anti-Muslim violence was witnessed about a week ago in Tripura which has led to 16 verified incidents of Mosques getting vandalised. Of the same, three Mosques were completely burned down. 27 verified incidents of mob violence and an incident of right-wing groups attacking three houses in Panisagar and molesting women were also reported.
News reports suggest that the attacks were in retaliation to the communal violence in Bangladesh that went on for a few days about a week ago. However, locals told Siasat.com that it was just an excuse for the Hindutva mobs to unleash terror on the local Muslims in Tripura.
Some stills of places where mosques were burnt in Tripura.
Bursting the myth of police protecting Mosques in Tripura While addressing an online press conference on anti-Muslim violence in Tripura, organised by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), Fawaz Shaheen, the national secretary of Students’ Islamic Organisation (SIO) said that sections of national media which managed to report on the ongoing violence are misleading people. While Shaheen verified that police officials were granting protection to mosques, he said that it was limited to district centres alone.
“The attacks are not happening in district centres, they’re happening in remote areas,” he added.
Nadeem Khan, secretary of APCR speaking at the same event said that a very dangerous face of majoritarian democracy has been unleashed in Tripura, and remarked that the government is misleading the public amass by investing heavily in public relations. “They are only showing a few images of police protecting the masjids in Agartala, the state capital, where the violence is minimal,” he said.
Source: SIO Pc.credits: Maktoob media State sponsored violence? Around fifteen to twenty thousand Muslims had protested on Tuesday in North Tripura against the violence. However, section 144 (ruling that prohibits public gatherings in a given jurisdiction) was immediately imposed.