Gujarat riot targeting techniques were repeated in Delhi’s 2020 anti-Muslim pogrom

Evidence

CJ Werleman, a journalist who closely examined the New Delhi massacre, wrote, “Attackers also marked Hindu-owned properties with saffron-colored flags to help their terrorists-in-arms identify Muslim targets … thus mimicking a sinister measure used on the eve of the 2002 Gujarat riots, which left more than 2,000 Muslims killed and thousands more battered, raped, and abused.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 449

Categorization

• XREF: The saffron-flag marking of targets echoes the stigmatizing ‘marking’ techniques discussed in US Islamophobia chapters, and links the Gujarat pogrom to Delhi 2020 as technique transmission.
• SEED: The copying of marking and targeting methods across pogroms two decades apart — technique ‘learning’ between state-linked mob violence — makes a strong comparative essay angle.