The following video from India features a first-hand account of an attack by a Muslim mob on Hindus and their temple of Shiva.
Many thanks to Bose for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | My name is Vikas. I live in Ghonda Assembly. My brother is getting married on March 2. | |
| 00:07 | We were coming back after distributing the wedding cards. My elder brother got shot. The moment | |
| 00:11 | we got to know our brother got shot, | |
| 00:15 | after we stepped out of the house, 400 to 500 Muslims were there. | |
| 00:19 | They were coming from the other side. They started throwing stones and firing at us. | |
| 00:23 | We told him: Please, brother, don’t do this. We are innocent. | |
| 00:27 | We are only your neighbours. You live here; we live here. | |
| 00:31 | We have to live together here. But they didn’t listen. | |
| 00:35 | They continuously fired at us and threw stones at us. —Did you feel that | |
| 00:40 | they targeted you selectively because you were a Hindu? | |
| 00:45 | Yes, they were doing all the attacking, lynchings against Hindus only. | |
| 00:49 | There is a Temple of Lord Shiva next to my house. They came to destroy that temple, too, | |
| 00:53 | very near to my house. They came to destroy that temple, | |
| 00:57 | but they weren’t able to attack the temple fully, and then they saw us… said, “They are Hindus,” | |
| 01:01 | then they started firing, throwing stones. | |
| 01:05 | Neighbours learned about this. Everybody came out of their respective houses. | |
| 01:09 | Then the situation got under control. Then we went to hospital. | |
| 01:13 | After that we don’t know anything about what happened. —How did you feel after watching | |
| 01:18 | the crowd? —The crowd really looked dangerous, like goons. Somebody was wearing a helmet; | |
| 01:23 | a few covered their faces with masks, looked very strange; don’t know what’s happening. | |
| 01:27 | We were all so afraid for our lives. |