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Muzaffarnagar riots: 'They harassed me daily and killed my uncles', say victim Hindu girl

" Click here to read all details about Muzaffarnagar Riots "   "Every day for seven or eight days, they were harassing me on my way to school," says the 16-year-old, describing the circumstances leading to the triple murders that are supposed to have triggered the Muzaffarnagar violence. "When I came home and told my family, my uncle Gaurav said he would come with me till Kawwal," she says. "That day when we reached Kawwal and they started harassing me again, Uncle protested. Sachin Uncle too came by. He told me to go home they would sort things out. I came back home. After that I don't know what happened." More than three weeks later, with both her uncles and her alleged tormentor dead, and Uttar Pradesh plunged into its worst communal clashes in a decade, life has come to a standstill for her and her friends, none of whom have since gone back to school, Bharti Inter College, 8 km from her village. The family, mourning the death