Sunday, July 25, 2010
BJP NEED TO GO ON PROACTIVE ON CONGRESS
We , are now facing the same situation, where in a weak govt in India had allowed all the foreigners to capture India by fraudulent means as British had done to moguls .Now If all the Indians would not raise their heads and bring a strong govt then it would too late after the deluge strike us.Our future is dark and unthinkable.
Now Media houses of India should not call themselves free press as they are sold to foreigners under FDI and majority of the shares are with the foreign partners which comprises of church and Muslim countries. Almost all the media houses are governed by the foreigners who are mainly Christians and muslims.Almost all the TV news channel are spreading hatred against Hindus and are propagating Christianity and Islamic. These channels are under the majority partners of the church and maszid So all the Hindus organizations and media houses should start their own free news channel and foil the conspiracies by church and maszid media. Prejudiced and biased media can play havoc with democracy is the latest examples in India.Can the govt publish the share holdings in these news channels from FDI and investments by foreigners, Churches, Islamic countries? There is a sinister design in purchasing the media houses by the foreign investors in India.These media houses has played a major role in condemning the Hindu organizations like RSS,VHP,Bajarangdal,Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram,and most importantly BJP.In 2004 and 2009 BJP had lost the election by the vicious campaign by the media houses who had played the same lies and untruths several times daily.Now a day’s TV is the best media to influence the voters. The News channel by TVTODAY,AAJTAK,HT, CNN, NDTV and Times now has played a major role in ousting the NDA govt by their Goebbels propaganda. But the fall of Goebbels and Hitler should be known to them.Now the time has come for these Hindu organizations to start their own news channels to show the truth to the Indian voters and awaken them from their deep slumber. Now the TV media is of prime importance for congress that is feeding with all kinds of help for praising the UPA govt and Congress in particular and condemn all the other parties and preferably BJP.In south almost all the political parties and leaders have their own news channels. They are showing their parties work and also refute the lies of their competitive channels. If BJP,RSS,VHP and all other Hindu organizations would not start their own news channel very soon then the same news channels who had defeated them in 2004 and 2009 would again defeat them by spreading lies and untruths in 2014 election.The TEHLKA is a group of some unscrupulous people who are fed by congress and they are spreading the message of congress and soiling the image of journalism .It is a matter of high regret that Media which is the fourth pillar of democracy can go to so low as to sold itself and its conscience for some money and work for a particular party, organization and people. If the right to speech is their weapon then all of us a have a weapon of non violence agitation against such groups and organization and media houses. If Gandhijee can force the Britishers to leave India by his non - violent agitation we can also drove these foreigners from our media houses by our non-violent agitations,dharna,strikes,bandhs,gherao.We need not be so much aggressive to go and show highhandedness to the media houses like TV today and all other media houses who are spearheading the campaign of falsehood and constructed news. We can show them our strength by gherao their offices all over the country, sit in dharna before their offices. The agitation should not be violent in any manner. Peaceful agitation can conquer their hearts also.Now all our RSS, BJP and VHP leaders should prepare themselves for fighting legal battle with these media houses. All the nationalist and patriotic people should file cases against these media houses for spreading hatred among all the communities, breach of peace and tranquility. The RTI should be used to know the share holdings In all these media houses from the registrar of companies.BJP should start a nation wide agitation for awakening of all the patriotic forces and nationalists people. If the media houses would abuse its freedom and rights it would met the same fate that Hitler had met. Spreading of falsehood by a democratic institution is a crime against humanity.
stop abusing judiciary and cbi police
hail hitler sonia
In USA the two parties like democrats and republicans never accuse their leaders in open. If any person does any crime he is being tried under law and no witch hunt takes place in that country. Likewise in all the European countries all the politicking is transparent and equal.So why congress govt is doing all these witch hunting? It would lead to tit for tat policy by next govt, when BJP or NDA would comes to power in centre in 2014.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
HINDUS ARE NOT COWARDS,TRAITORS AND BOOT LICKERS?
Hinduism is not a religion but a culture and way of life as all our eminent journalist and Editors tells us.it is the fourth largest religion in world. 1.CHRISTIAN,2.ISLAM,3.BUDDHISM,4.HINDU.
Hindus are in majority in India and Nepal. India was a Hindu state before the constitution was amended by the congress to insert SECULARISM into the constitution. Nepal was a Hindu state when their king was the ruler and it becomes a SECULAR STATE after the Maoists takeover.
Hindus never believes in conversion of people of other faith. But In India all other faith or religion are busy in converting the people from other faith but Hindus leaders and preachers never get down to that business. They are simply busy in giving discourse and earn huge money and establishing their air-conditions Ashrams leading a luxurious life and doing business in selling medicines,literatures,books and CDs. They are flying in own aero planes and Helicopters.If they would have reached to every nook and corners of India with a message that Hinduism is in peril and save it then the govt would not have dared to take actions on Hindus organizations in fake cases.Now this govt want to put Narendra Modi and Advani in jails, but failing in its duty to hang a Muslim terrorist who had masterminded attack on parliament since so many years .Is not the case shows the true intentions of our so called secular govt in which the majority are Hindus.
When the British left India in 1947 they have set one condition before the leadership that they have to accept partition of India on religion line and our leaders accepted that condition to get freedom from the chains of British. At that time Britain PM MR. ATTLEE WAS in favour of granting freedom to India. Lord Mountbatten, the then Governor General of India told Nehru that he should accept the condition although Gandhijee was strongly against partition on religion lines as Mr. Attlee had agreed and if Mr. Churchill would become PM once again they would not get the freedom and Nehru agreed to partition as briefed by Mountbatten. The whole fault is of Nehru who was manipulated by the Governor General.
Now we all the people of India and Pakistan are suffering due to blunders of Nehru. He had also worsened the situation of Kashmir by going to UNSC when the Pakistan forces attacked Kashmir and our forces are ousting the from our land. Now both India and Pakistan are bitter enemies in all respects. They had fought several wars in the last 63 years of freedom. Although the general people of India and Pakistan are as close as long lost brothers but the political leadership had never reconciled to the facts of their friendship.Pakistan has seen democracy for a small period and that is also under the shadow of their military leadership. Now also the democracy and govt in Pakistan is fake and the showing of a parliamentary form of govt is a facade. Everything in Pakistan runs on whims and fancies of the Military chiefs. It is a true fact that General Kayani is ruling Pakistan by proxy. Pakistan army never want that both the country remain in peace with friendship and tranquility. It would not serve their purpose of extracting maximum mileage from USA and UK.
In Our country we have got two national parties who have some presence in states and centre. One is Congress and other is BJP.Now congress is ruling our country with a fractured mandate with the help of some state based parties like DMK,NCP,TMC and BSP. It has not having a simple majority of its own and it has stitched up a coalition govt which is pulling it in all sides and preventing it from taking strong and visible actions for good governance. At the time of NDA rule the BJP was the major partner but it was the coalition which also prevented the party to take any visible action.
The country is suffering the pain of terrorism,naxalism,Maoism only due to such fractured mandate by voters.If they would have given a strong mandate to any of the two parties the country would not have put to such dilemma. Now the govt is not able to take any action as it is highly incapacitate by their coalition partners who do not want to take actions on TERRORISM,NAXALISM and Maoism for the compulsions of vote bank.
But when it is in the case of any such actions by any group or individual from majority community the secular govt never fails to take actions as it would serve its purpose of consolidation of minority vote bank in its favour. The minorities are putting whole lot of pressures on the govt by threat that if it would not take actions be it fake or fraudulent on majority community, they would not going to vote them in any state or central election’s govt is taking actions fabricating fake evidence with the help of pliable CBI,Police and intelligence.
MALEGAON, AJMER, HYDERABAD ,SAMJHOUTA EXPRESS blasts now are being dangling before the RSS and many such Hindu organizations by the Christian govt centre and muslim govts in congress ruled states.I wondered why pak fm Mr.Qureshi did not took the names of advani,balasaheb and rss chief when a journo asked about 26/22 case and hate speech by Hafez qureshi and instead put the blame on home secy of India.
When HT and AAJTAK had shown a manipulated and constructed sting operation on RSS leaders for their involvement in bomb blasts it is proved that media has been in the hands of the foreigners who had a majority stock holding in these media houses. It is quite unbelievable that RSS leaders can be so novices and idiots who would utter the words as shown in the sting CD .The former MP cannot be a fool and idiot to agree to any such interview to any unknown journo .All these stings are frauds, fake , fabricated and constructed by the HT.Moreover whatever be the people’s anger on the govt’s policy of appeasement and weakness of the govt to take actions on criminals of Muslim community and letting them free as they have done in pune case and Mumbai case, Hindus can never be vindictive, revengeful and aggressive. They are passionate, lousy and patient. All these cases instituted against Hindus are fake,frauds,fabricated and constructed by the Christian govt only to please their masters .We have history of thousands of years wherein Hindus were betrayed by their own for which they were ruled by foreigners for thousands of years, only due to lack of unity and nationalism among them. Now all these rulers,officers,police and judges who are fabricating such cases are own brothers but they are working under duress from their masters at centre and they cannot be blamed as we have dug our own grave by putting them in Indian throne. If Hindus would not raise their voice now and in future their future is doomed and perilous. We are passing through a calamity period and perils are just visualised.
If the calamity would strike us it is our doing and we should not blame others when we have blundered to have brought such govt to power in 2004 and 2009.We should not blame the media as it is working on the orders of the Christian govt and its foreign masters/fund managers.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
COME ON ALL THE GUJARAT PEOPLE ,SAVE YOUR HNOUR AND PROSECUTE THE SO CALLED HUMAN RIGHTISTS.
In our country we are supposed to be safe as we believes in non-violence and have won our freedom in that platform.our gandhijee has taught us to be peace loving as he belongs to the state of gujarat which is highly peacelving people in world.Gujrat is known as a mini america all over teh country as many people from gujrat has enriched american culture and economy.but the riits of 2002 has become a nightmare in the eyes of gujrat people.the truth has forgotten by teh so called secularists and human right activists like mrs teesta shetalvad,mallika sarabhai have been engaged in spraeding lies and untruths.The 2002 Gujarat violence describes the Godhra train burning and resulting communal riots between Hindus and Muslims. According to media reports,on 27 February 2002 at Godhra City in the state of Gujarat, the Sabarmati Express train was forcibly stopped and attacked by a large Muslim mob. As a result , 59 Hindu passengers — mostly women, children and seniors returning from the holy city of Ayodhya — were burned alive. The resulting riots and massacres killed 794 Muslims and an additional 254 Hindus. 223 people were reported missing and 2,548 sustained injuries. 523 places of worship were damaged: 298 dargahs, 205 mosques, 17 temples, and 3 churches. Muslim-owned businesses suffered the bulk of the damage. 61,000 Muslims and 10,000 Hindus fled their homes. Preventive arrests of 17,947 Hindus and 3,616 Muslims were made. In total 27,901 Hindus and 7,651 Muslims were arrested. Nearly 10,000 rounds of bullets were fired by the police, killing 93 Muslims and 77 Hindus.
where are these ladies from human rights groups who had made the judicial process in india a farce?The facts are coming to the light daily that teesta shetalvad is spreading lies and untruths thorugh her favourite media links by marrying an muslim boy.but law of india had no acts to touch her .she can be booked under vatrious provisions of law for spreading communal hatred,lies and rumours with untruths.but our supreme courts and highcourts are most favourable to her.the tv media is also siidng with her under duress from the owners of the media group chiarmans to condemn the hindu groups and make their life hell.
On 27 February 2002, 58 Hindus, including 25 women and 15 children, were burnt alive in a railway coach by a mob[6] in the town of Godhra following an altercation between local Muslims and activists of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (Kar Sevaks) returning by the Sabarmathi express train from Ayodhya.[7] Initial media reports blamed the local Muslims for setting the coach on fire,[8] in what Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and the VHP leader Giriraj Kishore alleged was a "pre-planned" attack.[9][10] The New Nanavati Report states that the Attack on the "Kar Sevaks" on the train from Ayodhya was pre-planned, and exonerates Chief Minister Narendra Modi.[11] A previous report on the Godhra train burning, filed by Justice Banerjee, a more recent report filed by Justice Nanavati states that it was "pre-planned" by the mob. The Gujarat High Court ruling, as of 2006, has declared as illegal and unconstitutional, setting up of the Umesh Chandra Banerjee committee, which had concluded the fire started by accident. Gujarat High Court quashed the conclusions of the Banerjee Committee and declared its formation as a “colourful exercise,” “illegal, unconstitutional, null and void,” and its argument of accidental fire “opposed to the prima facie accepted facts on record."
The Ahmedabad-based Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), after conducting intensive tests, reported that it is impossible that inflammable liquid could have been poured from outside into the train compartment.[12] One of the reason it gave was that the height of the window of the coach was around 7 feet from the ground at the place and in the position it was not possible to throw any inflammable fluid inside from outside the coach from any bucket because by doing this, most of the fluid was getting thrown outside.[13] According to report, inflammable liquid was already present in the train compartment and fire started from inside.
However, in September 2008 the Godhra Commission confirmed that there was an attack by a mob.[1] Going further, the report claims that one Hassan Lalu had thrown burning objects into the train and 140 litres of petrol had been used to set the train on fire, adding that stones were thrown at passengers to stop them from fleeing.[14][15]
The bodies of those killed in the train were brought to Ahmedabad, where a procession was held,[16] a move seen as a major provocation for the ensuing communal violence.[17] The VHP issued a call for a state-wide strike on 28 February 2002, which was supported by the BJP.[18][19]
[edit]Post Godhra violence
151 towns and 993 villages[20] in fifteen to sixteen of the state's 25 districts were affected by the post-Godhra violence, which was particularly severe in about five or six districts. The violence raged largely between 28 February and 3 March, and after a drop, restarted on 15 March, continuing till mid June.[21] Northern and central Gujarat, as well as the north-eastern tribal belt which are closer to Godhra City, were the worst affected while Saurashtra and Kutch remained largely peaceful.[20]
[edit]Attacks on Muslims
Attacks by large Hindu mobs began in the districts of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Saberkantha and, for the first time in its history, Gandhinagar on 28 February. Violence spread to the largely rural districts of Panchmahals, Mehsana, Kheda, Junagadh, Banaskantha, Patan, Anand and Narmada the next day. Over the next two days, Bharuch and Rajkot and later Surat were hit.[22]
The first incidents of attacks on the Muslim community started at Ahmedabad, where Hindus began throwing stones at and later burned a Muslim housing complex known as Gulburg Society, and then spread elsewhere.[23] The initial violence was believed to be instigated by unsubstantiated rumours, endorsed by a senior VHP leader, of Muslims having kidnapped three Hindu girls during the Godhra train attack.[23]
In Ahmedabad, the dargah of the Sufi saint-poet Wali Gujarati in Shahibaug and the 16th century Gumte Masjid mosque in Isanpur were destroyed. The Muhafiz Khan Masjid at Gheekanta was ransacked.[24] Police records list 298 dargahs, 205 mosques, 17 temples and three churches as damaged in the months of March and April.[25]
[edit]Attacks on Hindus
Attacks on Hindus by Muslim mobs in Danilimda, Modasa, Himmatnagar, Bharuch, Sindhi Market, Bhanderi Pole, and other localities in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat were perpetrated by Muslim mobs.[26] There was a significant loss of property.[27][28] Late in March, more than one thousand Hindus in Dariyapur and Kalupur, including 550 dalits, fled their homes to stay in makeshift shelters after being attacked by Muslims mobs.[29] According to the HRW report, over ten thousand Hindus were made homeless.[26]
Several Hindu residential areas, including Mahajan No Vaado, a fortified enclave in Muslim dominated Jamalpur, were targeted following calls for retaliation.
In the morning the mosques began announcing that Islam was in danger, that there was poison in the milk. This was used as a code word. The milk was meant to be Muslims & poison meant Hindus. The rioting lasted between 2:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.[26]
Residents were unable to go to work, fearing attacks. A Hindu temple in the area was destroyed. In Himmatnagar, a young man was killed when he went to a Muslim enclave on business.[26]
[edit]Toll
According to an official estimate, 1044 people were killed in the violence - 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus including those killed in the Godhra train fire. Another 223 people were reported missing, 2,548 injured, 919 women widowed and 606 children orphaned.[30]
Unofficial estimates put the death toll closer to 2000, with Muslims forming a high proportion of those killed.[31]
When missing people were declared dead after 7 years, total deaths went up from 1044 to 1,267.[32][33]
[edit]Security failure
By the evening of 28 February, curfews were imposed in twenty seven towns and cities.[34] By 25 March, thirty five towns were under curfew.[35] Police records show 21,563 preventive arrests were made by the end of April (17,947 of the arrested were listed as Hindus and 3,616 as Muslims) as well as 13,989 substantive arrests (9,954 Hindus and 4,035 Muslims).[25]
The New York Times' Celia Dugger reported that witnesses were "dismayed by the lack of intervention from local police", who often "watched the events taking place and took no action against the attacks on Muslims and their property".[36]
Human Rights Watch reported that in some cases members of the state police force led rioting mobs, "aiming and firing at every Muslim who got in the way", or instead of offering assistance "led the victims directly into the hands of their killers."[37] Calls for assistance to the police, fire brigades, and even ambulance services generally proved futile.[37]
By the end of April, police recorded 170 people as killed in police firing, of whom 93 were Muslims and 77 were Hindus.[25]
Hindu residents of Mahajan No Vaado, part of the Muslim dominated area of Jamalpur, told HRW that on 1 March, the police ignored phone calls and left them fend for themselves when a Muslim mob attacked.[26] Numerous calls by Hindus throughout the riots were reportedly ignored by the police.[26]
One thousand army troops were flown in by the evening of 1 March to restore order. Intelligence officials alleged that the deployment was deliberately delayed by the state and central governments.[38] On 3 May, former Punjab police chief K P S Gill was appointed as security adviser to the Chief Minister.[39]
The Gujarat government transferred several senior police officers who had taken active measures to contain and investigate violent attacks to administrative positions.[19][40][41]
RB Sreekumar, who served as Gujarat's intelligence chief during the riots, alleged that the state government issued "unconstitutional directives", with officials asking him to kill Muslims involved in rioting or disrupting a Hindu religious event. The Gujarat government denied the allegations, calling them "baseless" and instigated out of malice because Mr. Sreekumar was not promoted.[42]
Defending the Modi administration in the Rajya Sabha against charges of genocide, BJP spokesman V K Malhotra said that the official toll of 254 Hindus, killed mostly in police firing, indicates how the state authorities took effective steps to curb the violence.[43] BJP MP and journalist Balbir Punj disputed allegations of bias against Muslims by the BJP-run state government, pointing out that the majority of those arrested during and after the riots were Hindus.[44]
An unidentified pamphlet circulated to journalists in Gujarat in 2007 labelled Modi's government as anti-Hindu for arresting Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) workers and Hindu activists involved in the riots.[45]
[edit]Role of government and police
The Narendra Modi led state government was reprimanded immediately for failing to prevent the riots, but then increasingly for actively fomenting and participating in it, which was a far more serious charge. Critiques came repeatedly from the Supreme Court, and the upper house of the Indian parliament unanimously passed a resolution calling for federal intervention in Gujarat; a similar censure motion in the lower house was defeated by about 100 votes.[46]
In April 2002, retired supreme court justices V. R. Krishna Iyer and P. B. Sawant headed a citizen's panel to investigate the riots[47]. Their report includes testimony of the then GujaratBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister Haren Pandya (since murdered), who testified about an evening meeting convened by Narendra Modi the evening of the Godhra train burning. At this meeting, officials were instructed not to obstruct the Hindu rage following the incident[48]. The report also highlighted a second meeting, held in Lunawada village of Panchmahal district, attended by state ministers Ashok Bhatt, and Prabhatsinh Chauhan, and other BJP and RSS leaders, where "detailed plans were made on the use of kerosene and petrol for arson and other methods of killing."[49].
In 2003, A comment by G.T. Nanavati, who leads the official commission investigating the riots, that part of the evidence collected and reviewed till then did not indicate any serious lapse on the part of the government or police in Gujarat[50][51] was criticised as inappropriate by aid and reconciliation activists and other jurists.[52][53]
Some individuals involved have admitted to massacres. Organizations such as Human Rights Watch criticized the Indian government for failure to address the resulting humanitarian condition of people, the "overwhelming majority of them Muslim," who fled their homes for relief camps in the aftermath of the events; as well as the Gujarat state administration for engaging in a cover-up of the state's role in the massacres.[54] Many of the investigations and prosecution of those accused of violence during the riots have been opened for reinvestigation and prosecution.[55][56] The large-scale civil unrest has been generally been described as riots or inter-communal clashes.
In response to allegations of state involvement, Gujarat government spokesman, Bharat Pandya, told the BBC that the rioting was a spontaneous Hindu backlash fuelled by widespread anger against Muslims. He said "Hindus are frustrated over the role of Muslims in the on-going violence in Indian-administered Kashmir and other parts of India" [57]
The US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, John Hanford, expressing concern over religious intolerance in Indian politics, said that while the rioters may have been aided by state and local officials, he did not believe that the BJP-led central government was involved in inciting the riots.[58]
At the same time, about two hundred policemen lost their lives trying to control the violence in Gujarat[59].
[edit]Criminal prosecutions
The Indian Supreme Court has been strongly critical of the state government's investigation and prosecution of those accused of violence during the riots, directing police to review about 2,000 of the 4,000 riot related cases that had been closed citing lack of evidence or leads.[55] Following this direction, police identified nearly 1,600 cases for reinvestigation, arrested 640 accused and launched investigations against 40 police officers for their failures.[56][60]
Human Rights Watch alleges [61] that state and law enforcement officials harass and intimidate[62] key witnesses, NGOs, social activists and lawyers who are fighting to seek justice for riot victims.
In its 2003 annual report, Amnesty International says, "the same police force that was accused of colluding with the attackers was put in charge of the investigations into the massacres, undermining the process of delivery of justice to the victims."[63]
The Best Bakery murder trial received wide attention after witnesses retracted testimony in court and all accused were acquitted. The Indian Supreme Court, acting on a petition by social activist Teesta Setalvad, ordered a retrial outside Gujarat in which nine accused were found guilty in 2006.[64] A key witness, Zaheera Sheikh, who repeatedly changed her testimony during the trials and the petition was found guilty of perjury.[65]
After a local court dismissed the case against her assailants, Bilkis Bano approached the National Human Rights Commission and petitioned the Supreme Court seeking a retrial. The Supreme Court granted the motion, directing the Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the investigation, transferring the case out of Gujarat and directing the central government to appoint the public prosecutor.[66][67] Charges were filed in a Mumbai court against nineteen people as well as six police officials and a government doctor over their role in the initial investigations.[68] In January 2008, eleven men were sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murders and a policeman was convicted of falsifying evidence.[69]
In 2005, the Vadodara fast track court acquitted 108 people accused of murdering two youths, during a mob attack on a group of displaced Muslims returning under police escort to their homes in Avdhootnagar. The court passed strictures against the police for failing to protect the people under their escort[70] and failing to identify the attackers they had witnessed.[71]
Nine people were convicted of killing a Hindu man and injuring another during group clashes in Danilimda, Ahmedabad on 12 April, while 25 others were acquitted.[72]
Eight people, including a VHP leader and a member of the BJP, were convicted for the murder of seven members of a family and the rape of two minor girls in the village of Eral in Panchmahal district.[73][74]
Fifty two people from Pavagadh and Dhikva villages in Panchmahal district were acquitted of rioting charges for lack of evidence.[75]
A stringent anti-terror law, the POTA, was used by the Gujarat government to charge 131 people in connection to the Godhra train fire, but not invoked in prosecuting any of the accused in the post-Godhra riots.[76][77] In 2005 the POTA Review Committee set up by central government to review the application of the law opined that the Godhra accused should not be tried under the provisions of POTA.[78]
Shah-Nanavati commission
On 6 March, the Gujarat government set up a commission of enquiry headed by retired High Court judge K.G. Shah to enquire into the Godhra train burning and the subsequent violence and submit a report in three months.[79] Following criticism from victims' organisations, activists and political parties over Shah's alleged proximity to the BJP, on 22 May, the government reconstituted the commission, appointing retired Supreme Court Justice G.T. Nanavati to lead the commission.[80][81] In 2008, the Nanavati commission came out largely in favour of the Gujarat government's aspect. Nanavati's evidence hinged on the acquisition of 140 litres of petrol hours before the arrival of the train and the storage of the said petrol at the alleged key conspirator's, Razzak Kurkur, guest house. This was further corroborated by forensic evidence showing fuel was poured on the train compartment before being burnt. The alleged mastermind was said to be the cleric Maulvi Husain Haji Ibrahim Umarji and a dismissed Central Reserve Police Force officer named Nanumiyan, from Assam, who had instigated the Muslim crowds. Furthermore, two Kashmiris, Gulamnabi and Ali Mohammed, were in the same guesthouse for a fortnight prior to the event speaking about the Kashmir liberationmovement.[1]
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Indian National Congress party both came out railing against the exoneration of the Gujarat government by the commission citing the timing of the report (with general elections months away) as evident of unfairness. Congress spokesperson Veerappa Moily commented at the strange absolvement of the Gujarat government for complacency for the carnage. He also said the report reinforced communal prejudices.[82]
[edit]National Human Rights Commission
In its Proceedings of 1 April 2002, the Commission had set out its Preliminary Comments and Recommendations on the situation and sent a Confidential Report of the team of the Commission that visited Gujarat from 19–22 March 2002 to Gujarat government and Central Home Ministry. The Gujarat government in its reply did not provide its response to the Confidential report. Therefore, the Commission was compelled to release the confidential report in its entirety[83] and observed that nothing in the reports received in response "rebuts the presumption that the Modi administration failed in its duty to protect the rights of the people of Gujarat" by not exercising its jurisdiction over non-state players that may cause or facilitate the violation of human rights.
It further observed that "the violence in the State, which was initially claimed to have been brought under control in seventy two hours, persisted in varying degree for over two months, the toll in death and destruction rising with the passage of time despite the measures reportedly taken by the State Government".
The report claims failure of intelligence, failure to take appropriate action, patterns of arrests, uneven handling of major cases, and "Distorted FIRs: ‘extraneous influences’, issue of transparency and integrity" as key factors in the incident(s).
[edit]Banerjee Committee
In September 2004, a panel appointed by the central government and headed by former Supreme Court judge UC Banerjee to probe the Godhra train fire concluded that the fire was accidental.[84][85] Its findings were challenged by the BJP and the Gujarat inspector-general of police. In October 2006, the Gujarat High Court ruled that the panel was set up illegally, in violation of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 which prohibits the setting up of separate commissions by state and central governments to probe a matter of public importance.[86]
[edit]Concerned Citizens Tribunal
The citizen tribunal headed by retired Supreme Court justice Krishna Iyer collected evidence and testimony from more than 2000 riot victims, witnesses and others. In its report, the tribunal accuses the state government and chief minister Modi of complicity in the violence. While Krishna Iyer was nominally part of this tribunal, he made it clear in the preface of the report that his involvement was very limited. Interesting, this tribunal did not interview a single eyewitness regarding violence against Hindu victims. [87][88][89]
[edit]Aftermath
Opposition parties as well as three coalition partners[90] of the BJP-led central government demanded the dismissal of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for failing to contain the violence, with some calling for the removal of Union Home Minister L K Advani as well.[91]
On 18 July, Chief Minister Narendra Modi asked the Governor of Gujarat to dissolve the state assembly and call fresh elections.[92] The Indian Election Commission ruled out early elections, citing the prevailing law and order situation, a decision the union government unsuccessfully[93] appealed against in the Supreme Court.[94]
In August 2002 a plot by Lashkar-e-Toiba to assassinate Narendra Modi, Praveen Togadia, and other Sangh Parivar leaders was unearthed by Indian police. The terrorists were planning to set up a base in Gujarat and were trying to lure some of the riot-hit people into taking up "so-called jihadi activities" Delhi Police Special Commissioner (Intelligence) K K Paul said.[95]
In September 2002, at least 29 people were killed when Islamic fundamentalist gunmen engaged in the Akshardham Temple attack in the city of Gandhinagar in Gujarat. The PakistaniInter-Services Intelligence and Islamic terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba were accused of supporting the terrorists.[96][97][98][99]
Elections were held in December and Modi was returned to power in a landslide victory.[100]
Emails made public by the perpetrators of a series of bombings in western India in July 2008 indicated that those attacks were "the revenge of Gujarat".
[edit]Relief efforts
Amnesty International's annual report on India in 2003 claimed the "Gujarat government did not actively fulfill its duty to provide appropriate relief and rehabilitation to the survivors".[63]
The state government initially offered compensation payments of 200,000 rupees to the families of those who died in the Godhra train fire and 100,000 rupees to the families of those who died in the subsequent riots, which local Muslims described as discriminatory.[101] Subsequently, the government set the compensation amount at 150,000 rupees. [102]
By 27 March, nearly 100,000 displaced people moved into 101 relief camps. This swelled to over 150,000 in 104 camps the next two weeks.[21] The camps were run by community groups and NGOs, with the government committing to provide amenities and supplementary services. Drinking water, medical help, clothing and blankets were in short supply at the camps.[103] At least another 100 camps were denied government support, according to a camp organiser.[104] and relief supplies were prevented from reaching the camps over fears that they may be carrying arms.[105]
Relief camp organisers alleged that the state government was coercing refugees to leave relief camps, with 25,000 people made to leave eighteen camps that were shut down. Following government assurances that camps would not be shut down, the Gujarat High Court bench ordered that camp organisers be given a supervisory role to ensure that the assurances were met.[106]
On 23 May 2008, the Union Government announced a 320 crore rupee (US $ 80 million) relief package for the victims of the riots[107].
[edit]Media coverage
Covering the first major communal riots following in the advent of satellite television to India, television news channels set a precedent by identifying the community of those involved in the violence, breaking a long-standing practice.[108]
Critical reporting on the Gujarat government's handling of the situation helped bring about the Indian government's intervention in controlling the violence.[108] The Gujarat government banned television news channels critical of the government's response. STAR News, Zee News, Aaj Tak, CNN and local stations were blocked.[108]
The Editorial Guild of India rejected the charge that graphic news coverage aggravated the situation, saying that the coverage exposed the "horrors" of the riots as well as the "supine if not complicit" attitude of the state, helping propel remedial action. The team also faulted Gujarati language papers Gujarat Samachar and the pro-Hindutva Sandesh of distorted and provocative reporting.[108]
The Godhra fire received extensive news coverage until it was overtaken by the subsequent violence and the presentation of the Union budget.[108] Television and newspaper reports, particularly local Gujarati language media, carried graphic and at times sensationalised images and accounts of the Godhra train fire.[109] S Gurumurthy, Arvind Lavakare and columnistRajeev Srinivasan argue that news reports emphasized the provocative behaviour of the kar sevaks on the Sabarmathi Express in an effort to rationalise the subsequent mob attack at Godhra and displace blame from the mob on to the kar sevaks.[110][111]
In 2004, the weekly newspaper Tehelka published a hidden camera exposé alleging that a BJP legislator Madhu Srivastava bribed Zaheera Sheikh, a witness in the Best Bakery killings trial.[112] Srivatsava denied the allegation,[113] and an inquiry committee appointed by the Indian Supreme Court drew an "adverse inference" from the video footage, though it failed to uncover evidence that money was actually paid.[114] In a 2007 expose, the newspaper released hidden camera footage of several members of the BJP, VHP and the Bajrang Dal admitting their role in the riots.[115][116] Among those featured in the tapes was the special counsel representing the Gujarat government before the Nanavati-Shah Commission, Arvind Pandya, who resigned from his post after they were made public.[117] While the report was criticized by some as being politically motivated,[118][119][120][121] some newspapers said the revelations simply reinforced what was common knowledge.[116][122][123][124] The Gujarat government blocked telecast of cable news channels broadcasting the expose, a move strongly condemned by the Editors Guild of India.[125].
The riots were also the subject of a 2004 documentary film by Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker), called Final Solution (Gujarat Riots). The film was denied entry to Mumbai International Film Festival in 2004 due to objections by Censor Board of India, but won two awards at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival (2004)[126]
[edit]Controversies on the riots
[edit]Atrocities against women
An international fact finding committee formed of experts from US, UK, France, Germany and Sri Lanka reported, "sexual violence was being used as a strategy for terrorising women belonging to minority community in the state."[127]
Taking a stand decried by the media and other rights groups, Nafisa Hussain, a member of the National Commission for Women accused organisations and the media of needlessly exaggerating the plight of women victims of the riots.[128][129][130] which was strongly disputed as Gujarat did not have a State Commission for Women to act on the ground.[131] The newspaper Tribune reported that "The National Commission for Women has reluctantly agreed to the complicity of Gujarat Government in the communal violence in the state." The tone of their most recent report was reported by the Tribune as "lenient".[132]
[edit]Riot cases controversy
In April 2009, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) setup by the Supreme Court of India to investigate and expedite the Gujarat riot cases submitted before the Court that Teesta Setalvad had cooked up cases of violence to spice up the incidents. The SIT which is headed by former CBI director, R K Raghavan has said that false witnesses were tutored to give evidence about imaginary incidents by Teesta Setalvad and other NGOs[133]. The SIT charged her of “cooking up macabre tales of killings”[134][135].
The court was told that 22 witnesses, who had submitted identical affidavits before various courts relating to riot incidents, were questioned by SIT and it was found that the witnesses had not actually witnessed the incidents and they were tutored and the affidavits were handed over to them by Setalvad[134].
The report which was brought to the notice of the bench consisting of Justices Arijit Pasayat, P Sathasivam and Aftab Alam, noted that the much publicised case of a pregnant Muslim woman Kausar Banu being gangraped by a mob and foetus being removed from sharp weapons, was also cooked up and false[133][136].
so there is amle eveidence against these so called human rights activists to be prosecuted by all the gujarat people for saving their hnours.they can lodge fir's with their ps against these ladies under various provisions of law and make them pay for their sins.