{"id":38127,"date":"2021-10-18T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/18\/do-we-not-have-any-rights-indian-muslims-fear-after-assam-evictions"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:00:05","slug":"do-we-not-have-any-rights-indian-muslims-fear-after-assam-evictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38127","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Do we not have any rights?\u2019 Indian Muslims\u2019 fear after Assam evictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BJP government accused of \u2018divide-and-conquer policy\u2019 as villagers are beaten and shot<\/p>\n<p>Maynal Haque was holding a bamboo stick in his hand when the police shot him at point-blank range. All around him, the houses of the village he grew up in were being destroyed or set alight by police. As Haque fell to the ground, officers\u2019 batons pounded on his body and a photographer, appointed by police to document the raid, ran over and began stamping hard on him, a scene caught in video footage. Once dead, Haque was rolled into a bulldozer and carried off by officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was with just a stick but they fired at his chest,\u201d Haque\u2019s wife, Mamataj Begum, said through tears. \u201cThey killed him in a brutal way. The sole breadwinner of our family is murdered by police. How shall we live without him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/18\/do-we-not-have-any-rights-indian-muslims-fear-after-assam-evictions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP government accused of \u2018divide-and-conquer policy\u2019 as villagers are beaten and shotMaynal Haque was holding a bamboo stick in his hand when the police shot him at point-blank range. All around him, the houses of the village he grew up in were being &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38128,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38127\/revisions\/38128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}