From: sudhama@engin.umich.edu (Sudhama Gopalan)
Subject: Newspaper gleanings about Bombay
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:48:31 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

 follows is a hastily typed summary from various newspapers about the
situation in Bombay.

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Violence was sporadic in the southh and central areas of the
city all thhrough the day.  The unrst appeared to be moving
outwards to the western and eastern suburbs from which numerous scattered
incidents of arson and rioting were reported.  Especially at Ghatkopar,
Santa Cruz, Vile Parle anad Vokola, the police had their hands full deanling wit
   h arsonists.  Large scale disturbances in Malad.

  To help thhe police control the situation, 39 columns and two
companies of the Border Security Frce arrived in the city.
The army had fire at three locatoions last night which was
the first such firing in Bombay in free India.  The army had been
ordered to fire at trouble makers.

  Prominent senior citizenstoday urged the Centre to declare
partial emergency, in bombay and hand over the city to tthe
army without any interference.  Goondas and criminals, mobsters and
beasts in thhe form of men, hhave taken over the city.  During
the last four days Bombay has witnessed scenes of violence and
lawlessness to whichh there hhas been no parallel during the
300 year-old history of the city.

  Most essential commodities are already beginning to dry up and supples from
the wholesale markets in New Bombay have completely stopped
since the riots broke out.

  Thunderstruct residents of Tardeo phoned in desperately to
complain that the families and friends of policemen residing in the
nearby police colony went on  a looting spree on Sunday and Nonday.
Shops were ransacked and clothes, groceries and electronic goods
- including refrigerators and TV sets - were carried away into the police
quarters.  Unlike in other neighbourhoods,  ther were no bonfires
of stolen goods in this particular section, bewailed a bewildered
eye-witness.

  EXODUS BEGINS IN CITY

  At least 10,000 people have assembled at VT station waiting for the next
train to transport them from the raging hell the city of gold had truned into.
The exodus began on Saturdaay last week as a direct fallout of the battering the
    riot-vitims received when rows of hutments along  the Harbour Railway
Line at Sewree and Cotton Green,    ...  and other parts were devastated.

  Contrary to expectations, members of both the majority, nostly non-
Maharashtrians and minority communities have taken the painful decision
to leave the city.
  Most of those waiting at VT station belong  the minority comunity and are
bound for Uttar Pradesh.  Railway authorities have pressed special trains into 
  service for Gorakhpur.  At least 4000 persons boarded a train for Gorakhpur
half-past midnight Monday and two batches of 4000 each left
at 3.30p.m. and 8.30 p.m. The victims are mostly bound for U.P
There was no exodus for the south and the smaller number that are
headed for Kerala, Bengal, Orissa etc, were being accommodaated on the regular
trains.

   Shivsainiks had been attacking members belonging to the Muslim community
in Dharavi and it is also a coincidence that most of them happen to be
Tamil speaking

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Apologies for the typos, some of which I tried to correct.

Sudhama.
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