The police was with them. The police killed seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds.The mob also burned down our home. At 10 a.m. they went after our mosque. Thirty to forty tear gas shells werereleased by the police as we, about fifty boys, were trying to save the mosque.... They killed oneseventeen-year-old and eight to ten other boys were injured.... We kept calling the police but no one came....The police would pick up the phone and hang up when they heard it was from Naroda Patia.28
My son was running to save his life and the police shot him. Our home wasbehind Noorani Masjid. They were coming to set the mosque on fire. Then we started running. A bullet hit myson's arm and then his stomach. No one was answering the police phone. The police took their side and notours. My son's name was Shafiq. He was eighteen years old... No one came to help. He was suffering so much.His arm fell off. I have received nothing from the government.... So many people are also missing. Some havelost their mother, their son, their father.30
They took my daughter's dowry. This is my daughter [she pointed to her]. Sheis seventeen. Her name is Mumtaz. She was supposed to get married. Now the groom won't come. They also burnedmy son's rickshaw. They burned everything after we left. During the attack they were screaming "Killthem. Cut them." We left on March 1. We stayed at home until then. The police sided with them. They wereBajrang Dal people. They were wearing saffron bandannas. There were also Shiv Sena people. First the policecame, they searched the mosque, they were checking for weapons to see if it was safe for the others to come.Then the others came. The police station is right near us. The police was with them for three full days. Wekept telling them to help us.31
They burnt my whole family.
Nineteen members of my family were killed. My wife, my mother, my son, mydaughters-in-law, my brother's daughter-in-law, and others. We found fourteen of the bodies, five are stillmissing. Those fourteen are buried here [at a mass grave site next to the Dariyakhan Ghummat camp in Shahibaug].Sixty-two people were killed there, twenty-nine bodies have not been found. First they cut people so theycouldn't run and then they set them on fire. One or two women were taken aside and gang-raped. After fivehours the police came and brought us here. It was so well planned. We buried fourteen members of my familyhere on March 7.43
They pulled them out and cut them up. When we came out then we saw that he wascut in the stomach, the chest and the head. They came with trishuls. My sister-in-law was burnt. First theytook her jewelry. Then took her into the kitchen and exploded the gas cylinder. They wanted to get rid of allthe evidence. They had been married for fifteen months and she was five months pregnant.47
First they took everyone's jewelry. Then they raped the women, then they cutthem up, and then they burned them. They should get as strict a punishment as possible.... I was hit with apipe. We ran outside when the gas cylinder exploded and then later the police came and we left.48
They wanted to leave by the railroad behind Jaffrey's house, but the policecommissioner said, " No, don't you trust me? You must stay here." Jaffrey even said, "Kill meand leave them alone." After the police brought people here [the camp] then all night they set bodies onfire, so there could be no cases against them, so there could be no evidence. Without police support, none ofthis could have happened.49