DDHK News, India - Rashida's parents, a three year old girl, can't imagine their little girl's life ending up in a refugee camp. "My daughter looks cheerful until Tuesday night," her father, Mohammad Momin, told India Today ..
“We have lit bonfires from the garbage collected at the camp. My wife took him to the tent around midnight, ”said Momin, who lives with his family at the Manna Maja camp in Shamli district since anti-Muslim riots broke out in Muzaffarnagar, he added.
As the world's children welcome the new year with their families, Rashida breathed her last in the filthy camp after her family couldn't find a doctor for her.
“Rashida was cold and had a high fever in the morning. There are no doctors or medical staff near the camp. He died before I could take him to a doctor in Shamli, ”the father.
“We didn't sleep at night because the tents were leaking. We also couldn't cook a meal because our brick fireplace was wet. The officials forced us to leave the camp, ”he said.
With Rashida's death, the death toll in the refugee camps reached 35.
Reports of deaths in the refugee camp of Muslims who fled the riots in Muzaffarangar were strongly denied by the local government.
AK Gupta, regional secretary for the state of Uttar Pradesh, said cold weather could not be the reason for the death. Gupta said that if cold weather kills people, no one will survive in Siberia.
Riots broke out last August when Hindu-Muslim clashes erupted in Muzaffarnagar, western Uttar Pradesh, India. The rioting left at least 60 people dead and forced some 70.000 Muslims from their homes. Riots broke out again on October 31 and left four people dead. (mel / onislam.net / localhost / project / personal / ddhongkong.org / ddhongkong.org). *
