الهند: مقاطعة الانتخابات ردا على تجاهل مأساة مسلمي مظفر نجار

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أعرب الكثير من المسلمين اللاجئين بالمعسكرات المؤقتة من الفارين من جحيم الاعتداءات التي وقعت بمنطقة "مظفر نجار" بولاية "أوتار براديش" الهندية - عن عزوفهم التام عن المشاركة في الانتخابات البرلمانية المقبلة؛ وذلك نتيجة التجاهل والإهمال الذي يتعامل به السياسيون مع أزمتهم المتفاقمة منذ سبتمبر العام الماضي، والتي أدت لتهجيرهم وصعوبة عودتهم لمنازلهم.

وقد أكد المسلمون أن السياسيين يغيبون وقت الحاجة إليهم، خاصةً في الأزمات وأحداث الشغب والاعتداءات الأخيرة التي تعرض المسلمون لها.

واعتبر المسلمون أن الانتخابات لن تحمل لهم أملاً بعد أن قُتل العشرات وأُجبر عشرات الآلاف على ترك ديارهم وممتلكاتهم، وبالرغم من إعلان الحكومة عن تعويض الأسر، فإنه ما يزال نحو 2,200 أسرة تقيم بأفرادها في المعسكرات المؤقتة، وصارت عنوانًا دائمًا لهم في ظل أزمة إنسانية بشعة؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muzaffarnagar Vote Aggravates Muslim Pains

Feeling ignored in makeshift camps for months, thousands of Muslims in Muzaffarnagar are intending to boycott next month’s parliamentary elections, seeing them as bringing no hope to their shattered life.

“Time has passed but our wounds are still fresh,” Rahima of Shahpur village in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh in India told OnIslam.net.

“Lok Sabha (Parliament) elections are due for next month, but we know our condition is not going to improve even after that.

“The political leaders weren’t around to help us in time of need and crisis during and after riots. But at the time of elections, they look to us for votes. We somehow saved ourselves and are now living in temporary camps,” she added.

Rahima is just like thousands of Muslims in Muzaffarnagar and its adjoining areas for whom temporary makeshift camps have become their permanent address after the riots erupted in September last year.

For them Lok Sabha elections in India do not bring any hope. More than 65 people were killed and 70,000 displaced in one of the worst riots witnessed in this part of the country last September. Majority of those who died were Muslims.

Athar Khan is also living in a temporary camp.

He wants to forget that particular evening when he was forced to flee when a mob attacked his house.

He left his home along with his wife and two children without any belongings and since then this small hut has become his home.

When he was reminded about the elections, he told OnIslam.net, “We have lost everything and nothing is left for us. What will we gain by casting vote or favoring any political party?”

“Will they help us if they come to power? I don’t think anyone is going to change our situation except Allah (Almighty),” said Athar, who is still looking for some permanent job for survival.

There are more than 200 families living in the makeshift camps and they have no plan to return to their homes, which they left following communal riots.

The state and the Union governments had announced compensation and jobs for those affected. But more than 2200 families are still living in makeshift camps.