The 1921 Malabar Hindu Genocide stands as one of the most gruesome acts of violence against Hindus by Islamists.
The perpetrators Moplah/Mapilla Muslims of Kerala brutally slaughtered at least 2,500 Hindus, forcibly converted at least 2,500, hundreds of women raped and sexually assaulted, 26,000 Hindus fled as refugees and more than 100 Hindu temples destroyed.
The brutalities included violating the modesty of women, butchering children and pregnant women, and forcing Hindus into submission and death. These atrocities were reported in international news dailies and accounts of the police, district magistrates and other officials.
The horrors have been described in the testimonials of Hindu victims of the 1921 Moplah genocide in a Letter to Lady Reading:
Pregnant women cut to pieces and left on the roadside and in jungles with the unborn babe protruding from the mangled corpse; of our innocent and helpless children torn from our arms and done to death before our eyes… and our husbands and fathers, tortured, flayed, and burnt alive.
The cries of our murdered children in their death agonies are still ringing in our ears… We remember how we choked and stifled our babies’ cries lest the sound should betray our hiding place.
Wells and tanks filled up with mutilated but often only half-dead bodies of our nearest and dearest ones who refused to abandon the faith of our fathers. Our places of worship desecrated and destroyed… images of the deity shamefully insulted with entrails of slaughtered cows.
The riots led by Haji and Ali started as a protest against the overthrowing of the Turkish Caliphate. The Islamist rioters aimed to establish “the Caliphate rule” in India by establishing a Khilafat army consisting of over 60,000 Muslim soldiers with Turkish Caliphate flags. The slogans were merely against the “Kafirs,” non-believers of Islam, specifically against Malabar Hindus and even the British.
Dr. B R Ambedkar, a champion of social justice and freedom, described the massacres, forcible conversions, desecration of temples, and other barbaric acts as “indescribable” by the Moplahs.
Today (25th September 2024) marks 103 years of the Malabar Hindu Genocide.
