By TwoCircles.net Special Correspondent,
Shamli, UP: As the political parties are busy blaming each other for the Muzaffarnagar riots, an estimate over a lakh people are believed to have thronged the various relief camps in the district or neighboring Shamli, Ghaziabad, etc, although the government figure puts the number to be only 40,000.
The state government has clearly failed to even provide basic services to those forced to live in camps. Poor displaced Muslims are living in some 40 schools, mosques and relief camps and are scared to even go back.
As you visit from camp to camp and talk to individual, the story is strikingly similar, houses attacked, burnt, people running in desperation for lives, leaving everything behind.
While those lucky, have reached to safer camps, but almost every family is worried for some member of the family who is missing, was trapped, or could not escape.
There is a family of three brothers, one married with a child, who could escape, but has no knowledge of their grandfather, who was too old to walk.
NoorJahan from village Lakh says, although she could escape, her husband has been trapped in the village. She says she got the information that the Jats in the village have kept him, and is hopeful that he is alive.
Salma from Putholli in Meerut narrates how her houses was attacked and they beaten before they could run away.
Akbari from village Laakh in Shami district narrates the horrifying experience of how her house was burnt, although she is thankful to God that all her family members are safe, although they still are forced to live in camp.
(Videos shot by: MuslimMirror Team)