Malayalam film twists history of 1921 Moplah Massacre by saying Muslims only attacked Hindu landlords - Namboodiris and Nairs while sparing majority Thiyyas. I'm a Thiyya, I will expose the lie in this thread.
1. 5000+ Hindus were murdered in 1921 massacre https://www.opindia.com/2020/06/vaariyamkunnan-prithviraj-sukumaran-malayalam-movie-mophal-massacre/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

2. I grew up hearing stories of the massacre from my grandmother. She used to tell me how her father, who was the personal physical of the Maharaja of Cochin, organised the defence of their neighbourhood when they heard about the Muslim mobs coming their way in South Malabar.

3. My great grandfather, Kakanat Mamu Vaidyar, was a gentle soul but when the time came he became a warrior. He, other family members and his neighbours but bamboo from plantations and drove pointed stakes into the ground all around their area to stop the marauding jehadi mobs.

4. Thorns were strewn amidst these stakes. This strategy worked very well because in Kerala people did not wear footwear and most people, including Muslims, walked barefoot.

5. While this strategy slowed down the mobs, it didn't stop them. Driven by jehad fervour, they ran over these obstacles and entered the area. My grandfather took his family and neighbours inside their large home built of solid masonry.

6. The rioters tried to break down the doors but the solid doors stood firm. They all had swords, butcher's knives and other crude weapons. As usual Hindus were totally disarmed. Some jehadis of the mob climbed on the roof of the house.

7. They were able to look into the house from the ventilators and saw a horrified group of Hindus inside. Now, you need to know that my grandfather was not a landlord. He was a physician. There were zero Muslims in our area. So why were they there? That's a rhetorical question.

8. Unable to enter enside and seething in frustration, the mob thrust their swords through the ventilators and said, "We will kill you all. You think you are safe? You are not. We are going for now, but will come back to get you all."

9. After more threats and vile abusive language directed at the women and children, the mob got down from the roofs, regrouped outside and went looking to hunt Hindus that were not as well protected.

10. The Moplah Massacre of 1921 is depicted in Kerala history as the Maapla Viplavam - Muslim Rebellion, against the British and "oppressive" landlords. But this lie has no legs. The Muslim League took the opportunity of Gandhi's Khilafat Movement to attack Hindus.

11. Using the fig leaf of uprooting British rule, Muslims organized a genocide of Hindus. They claimed to be attacking the British. So many British soldiers or administrators did they kill. Exactly zero. How many Hindus did they kill - more than 5,000. You get the picture?

12. The hell you did. You didn't get the full picture because Hindus themselves have presented half the story. In all accounts of Muslim massacres, by Tipu Sultan in 1700s to the Moplahs in 1921, you will read Muslims killed Nairs and Namboodiris. As if no other jatis existed.

13. Namboodiris are less than 1% of Kerala. Nairs aren't more than 14% today. Thiyyas are 23% today. In 1980s they were 33% of total Kerala pop. Going back further to 1921, Thiyyas must surely have been more. Plus there were Arayans, goldsmith, Pulayas, Veton, Perumannan.

14. My point is, there are hundreds of Hindu jatis. And they all look the same. In fact, Thiyyas, Nairs, Namboodiris, Arayans etc are indistinguishable from one another. So, were the Muslim mobs able to cherry pick their victims in the midst of a genocide? It is counterintuitive.

15. Logically, Thiyyas being being the majority jati, they would be proportionally represented in the Hindu death toll of 5,000. (I'm using the lower figure, the unofficial toll is probably double.)

16. However, if the majority among the dead Hindus were indeed Namboodiris and Nairs, it is due to two factors.

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*Namboodiris, being priestly, were totally defenceless. Got massacred.
*Thiyyas are descendants of Chekavar warrior clans. Although not Kshatriyas, they practised Kalari as profession. In many Thiyya homes, swords, spears, axes were common. This allowed them to at least fight

18. There is a two pronged whitewashing of Thiyya genocide. Firstly, if only Nairs and Namboodiris are shown as victims it suits the Muslim-Left-Woke narrative that 1921 was an uprising against feudalism. "Terror Has No Religion" started way back.

19. Secondly, some groups want to erase Thiyya history. Like it or not, that is a reality of Kerala society. By denying Thiyya genocide, they deny them space in history books. This is what drives the jati divide and sends a sizable chunk of Thiyyas to the CPM.

20. Moplah Massacre of 1921 was a genocide of Hindus in which all jatis were targeted without discrimination. Muslims are now 27% of Kerala and have gulf money. In an Orwellian reprise they are now trying to alter history, with support from the communists, who are expert at this.

21. Orwell: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped."

22. In Orwell's 1984, the Party slogan was: “Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

23. Orwell: "Due to the unreliability of individual memory, the influence of propaganda, and most of all the deaths of people who remembered life before the Revolution, the Party can succeed in exerting its control over the past."

24. 100 years after the Moplah Massacre, there is a renewed attempt to glorify the killers of 1921. But with Hindus now having a variety of platforms to highlight the truth, the Kerala film world can make any number hagiographies but won't succeed in whitewashing genocide.
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