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Violence against Muslimsin independent India. An attack on a railway train carrying Muslim refugees during the Partition of India was carried out at Amritsar in Indian Punjab on 22 September 1947. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Three thousand Muslim refugees were killed [ 1][ 2] and a further one thousand wounded. [ 4] Only one hundred passengers remained ...
The 1947 Kamoke train massacre was an attack on a refugee train and subsequent massacre of Hindu and Sikh refugees by a Muslim mob at Kamoke, Pakistan on 24 September 1947 following the partition of India. [ 2] The train was carrying around 3,000-3,500 refugees from West Punjab [ 3] and was attacked 25 miles from Lahore by a mob of thousands of ...
For 2012, [ 11] there were 93 deaths in India from many incidences of communal violence (or 0.007 fatalities per 100,000 people). Of these, 48 were Muslims, 44 Hindus and one police official. The riots also injured 2,067 people, of which 1,010 were Hindus, 787 Muslims, 222 police officials and 48 others.
1947 Jammu massacres. A large number of Hindus and Sikhs in Rajouri, [2] and in Mirpur. [6] After the Partition of India, during October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, many Muslims were massacred and others driven away to West Punjab. The killings were carried out by extremist Hindus and Sikhs ...
Over 10,000 people have been killed in Hindu-Muslim communal violence since 1950. [ 18] According to official figures, there were 6,933 instances of communal violence between 1954 and 1982 and, between 1968 and 1980, there were 530 Hindus and 1,598 Muslims killed in a total of 3,949 instances of mass violence. [ 19]
The 1990 Aligarh riots were an outbreak of violent conflict between Hindu and Muslim Indians between December 7-10, 1990. It was part of a wave of riots in several major Indian cities that lead to hundreds of deaths in December of 1990. Between 75 and 200 people were killed in Aligarh. Official reports claim that 92 were killed, two-thirds of ...
The Godhra train burning occurred on the morning of 27 February 2002: 59 Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from Ayodhya were killed in a fire inside the Sabarmati Express near the Godhra railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat. [ 1] The cause of the fire remains disputed. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The Gujarat riots, in which Muslims were the ...
Four people were shot dead onboard a moving passenger train in India after a member of the railway police opened fire on them in an apparent hate crime. The suspect, identified as Chetan Singh ...