Mob Rule In Delhi
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 29 February 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Deadly violence erupted this week in north-east Delhi between supporters and opponents of India’s new and controversial citizenship law. The legislation grants amnesty to illegal immigrants but only non-Muslim ones. The worst of the violence has abated but Yogita Limaye says many are stunned by the ferocity of the attacks.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, the death of a modern day Pharaoh, but one who was dethroned by the Arab Spring. |
| 0:13.0 | First the bombs and the fighting now famine, |
| 0:15.3 | no respite for the villages of Blue Nile in Sudan. |
| 0:19.2 | From he to she and back again a modern day tale of gender from the Netherlands and elegant travel |
| 0:26.1 | makes a reappearance with freshly cooked omelets on a train in Austria. |
| 0:31.6 | First India where trouble is growing over the new citizenship law, which grants |
| 0:36.8 | amnesty to illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, but only to non-Muslims. |
| 0:45.0 | The legislation was an election promise from the Hindu Nationalist B.J.P. Party. |
| 0:50.3 | Nearly 40 people have been killed in demonstrations so far with the worst violence in Delhi, |
| 0:56.0 | where Yogita Lymoye says the atmosphere is tense. |
| 1:01.0 | It was hard to believe India's national capital. |
| 1:05.0 | Struwn all over the road were |
| 1:10.0 | all over the road were bricks, stones and shattered glass. We were in Mustafa Bade, a densely populated |
| 1:16.8 | neighborhood in northeast Delhi. Homes and shops were charred, their walls blackened, and whatever was inside them had turned into an |
| 1:25.3 | unidentifiable mess. We stopped the car when we suddenly saw a stream of people |
| 1:31.3 | hurriedly crossing the road. Men, women and children carrying bags, |
| 1:36.4 | their faces tents. They were Muslim families who were fleeing the Hindu dominated areas |
| 1:42.4 | they lived in. |
| 1:43.7 | They told us they didn't feel safe in their homes anymore. |
| 1:47.7 | The street we were standing on, which just days ago must have been a noisy bustling one, was eerily empty and had become a sort of boundary |
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