‘I’d Do It Again’: Hindu Man Who Saved Lives of 8 Muslims in Ayodhya in 1992 | The Quint

Описание: Over 50 years ago, Razia Khatoon’s afternoons as a child had a recurring visitor at home – badki amma. She was a Hindu woman who was Razia’s mother’s age, and lived next door in their modest neighbourhood in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya.
“My mother and badki amma were like family and that relationship has carried on for generations,” said Razia, 60. This is why, on the morning of 7 December 1992 – a day after the Babri Majid was demolished – Razia didn’t hesitate for a minute before knocking at badki amma’s house after she heard news of violence spreading her lane.
“The Babri Masjid had been demolished a night ago. The next morning, I heard the Kar Sevaks were in our locality. There was violence, so I took my mother, who was wheelchair-bound by then, and went to our neighbour’s house to seek shelter,” said Razia, seated inside her one-room apartment in the same lane where she grew up, in Ayodhya.
Badki amma’s son, Parag Lal Yadav, and his two teenaged sons, too didn’t waste a minute before they let Razia and her mother in. For the next two days, the Yadavs saved the lives of eight Muslim neighbours.

At least 17 people were killed in Ayodhya.

“I would do it again,” says Parag, 70.
Thirty years after the Babri Masjid was demolished, Parag and Razia continue to live next door. This is their story.

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