Hashimpura Muslim Massacre | A Forgotten Chapter of 1987
On the night of May 22, 1987, in the industrial settlement of Hashimpura, Meerut, 42 Muslim men were abducted by the Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), taken to the edge of the Ganga canal, and executed in cold blood. Their only crime? Being Muslim in a city under curfew.
This video unpacks one of the most horrifying custodial massacres in independent India’s history — an event buried under decades of state denial, media silence, and judicial delay.
We trace the timeline from the night of the massacre to the survivors’ decades-long struggle for justice, the complicity of the Congress government, the impunity of the PAC, and the painful slowness of India’s legal system.
Hashimpura is not just a story of one night — it is the story of how a state apparatus can turn against its own citizens, and how justice delayed can almost become justice denied.
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