New Delhi rioters replicated Gujarat’s flag-marking technique to target Muslims.

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: Supports the chapter’s ‘history repeating itself’ thesis and the reader’s global-synthesis lens on technique transfer between pogroms.