<< Prev Page    |    1    |    2    |    3    |    4    |    5    |    6    |    7    |    8    |    9    |    10    |    Next Page >> 10 Victims of riots The main victims of riots, in 1993 in Bhatkal, were the poor – the fishermen Mogeras, the Namdharis, the Dalji and the Deccani Muslims. The rich of both the communities managed to safeguard their lives and property even though the clash began at their level. During the 1997 riots in KG halli, those who were affected most were the push cart vendors, slum dwellers and shop owners. During the 1986 riots in Mysore, most of the trouble was confined to areas in which the poor or the lower middle class lived. One of the prominent features during the riot was the savage fight between harijans and muslims (the best of neighbours otherwise) in Gandhinagar, a sprawling slum which is one of the miserably backward localities of Mysore. Of the more than 750 huts in this slum owned by harijans and tenanted by Muslims, about 240 were either ransacked demolished or burnt. Muslims suffered more than harijans in the insensate encounter. However, the more affluent areas were not totally free of trouble as scores of two – wheelers belonging to both communities were burnt down.    << Prev Page    |    1    |    2    |    3    |    4    |    5    |    6    |    7    |    8    |    9    |    10    |    Next Page >>