Mobs Burn Out Delhi Muslims as Coronavirus Descends

From 24 February to 1 March, lethal bands of rampaging Hindu-first boys — unleashed by ruling party officials and abetted by police — ran amok in north east Delhi.

“Commentators have likened [it] to Kristallnacht” for India’s Muslims, says former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakura. “The riots did indeed have elements that recalled … the Night of Broken Glass, symbolizing the shattering of Jewish existence” in 1938 Nazi Germany.

This is all coming into the world’s grisly view now–at the very moment the Coronavirus pandemic is casting its pall.

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