01-20-2006, 05:42 AM
<b>Gujarath Genocide</b> - A Test Dose of Hindutva?
The continuing violence, orgy, killing and looting, targeting the minorities for the past two months in Gujarat is nothing but blatant state sponsored terrorism.
Every citizen who believes in democracy, secularism, and above all humanism, should hung his or her head in shame!
Are we living in a civilized society? Gujarath - the land of Gandhi, is sheding bloody tears.
It is a sad tragedy and 1947-48 communal rioting is being repeated mercilessly.
The President of India, His Excellency, K.R.Narayanan observed: "The situation in Gujarat is a crisis of our State and society. I am deeply anguished and pained by the violent incidents that have disturbed the peace and communal harmony in Gujarat and elsewhere. I appeal for restoring communal harmony and call on citizens to do everything to end the violence."
President is the true representative of 100 crore citizens of India. His voice is the voice of the people!
The National Human Rights Commission headed by the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, condemned the Government of Gujarat for the acts of omissions and commissions.
Even countries who are very friendly to India conveyed their unhappy feelings to the Government of India.
The investment climate in a developing country like ours, is terribly suffering and has a setback.
For the past few months, the attempt to build Ram temple at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and the Gujarat incident have put the Government on wrong priorities and dingy digressions.
The Parliamentary proceedings were stalled by the opposition and the solution was found out by the Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha by his ruling of discussion and voting under rule number 184 of the Lok Sabha.
On 30th the deliberations and discussions went on upto 4.30 a.m. and the censure motion was defeated by a margin of 94 votes.
The NDA Government headed by Hon'ble A.B.Vajpayee was saved.
But all the political victories need not necessarily be a moral or ethical victory.
It is a moral defeat for the NDA! Its own allies who voted against the censure motion and favoured the Government did not support the adamant attitude of sheltering Narendra Modi's action in Gujarat.
The operation came out successful, but the patient died. Yes. Except two Hindutva parties like BJP and Shivsena, no other allies came to the rescue of Modi's minority baiting which is a pre-planned, systematic inhuman Hindutva act.
Indian Social Action Forum 'INSAF' has brought out from Raipur, a report of its study team on Gujarat carnage bringing out in full the whole truth.
The NDA Govrnment should see clearly the writing on the wall. Let us think of ensuring peace and tranquility and instil confidence among the minorities.
Discard the false prestige and defend the democratic values.
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A PEEP INTO THE TRAGIC EVENTS IN GUJARAT
Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF) is a national forum of about 500 social action groups, social movements and intellectuals. It is committed to resist globalisation, combat communalism and defend democracy. It was founded in 1993.
INSAF sent a team of seven persons from different parts of the country that toured the rural areas of Gujarat affected by the recent carnage. From April 2 to 5, 2002, they met the victims, visiting villages and relief camps. We give here a short summary of their findings.
They visited the relief camp at Chotaudepur on 2nd April and talked to many men, women and girls staying there. The victims were all Muslims and they gave the following information: The Sangh Parivar outfits like VHP made use of the Adivasis to attack them. The Adivasi youth had been offered money and encouraged that they could loot the property of the Muslims and that no police action would be taken againt them. In the beginning the Muslims of a few villages were assured safety. But the villagers could not carry out the assurance in the face of mob fury. There were no incidents of killing or rape in any of the villages in the tribal belt. The attackers damaged and looted the property. The economic base of the victims was destroyed.
The seven or eight Muslim families were fleeing with their belongings loaded in three trucks. They were attacked on the way by the adivasis who were drunk and acting on instructions. The belongings of the Muslims were burnt by the mob that came armed with swords, sickles, trishuls, guns etc.
The team spoke to the adivasi men and boys who took part in the loot and arson. They claimed that they had been urged. Their women stood by helplessly and wept. One woman asked the rioters to stop the violence. Her house was also burnt down!
The BJP members of the village of Jog asked the Muslims to leave. Even those who wanted to help could not do so. The local non-adivasi BJP leaders of the village Panvad brought adivasis from neighbouring villages and directed them to assault. Houses and trucks were burnt while the police watched. On the walls of the devasted houses they wrote slogans declaring Hindustan to be the land of the Hindus.
In Kadwal the mob razed to the ground the masjid that was under construction, and the books in it were burnt. Shakera Bibi, now in the relief camp in Chotaudepur, said: "It is the people in our village who identified our houses to the rioters who were mostly from other villages." They were given kerosine to burn the houses. They burnt the animals and took away the property. This happened on 3rd March. The instigators had given money to the adivasis to do this eight days before (that is prior to February 27, the day of the Godhra tragedy.) The adivasis know nothing of the difference between a mandir and masjid. The attack on Kawant village began on 11th March and continued for four days. They burnt down 154 Muslim houses of which 50 belonged to the Bohras.
About 4000 refugees were found in the relief camp in Godhra town. They were people from the Panchamahal distsrict. The attack on them began on 27th February, ie. immediately after the Godhra carnage. Unlike the Chotaudepur camp, the people here had suffered of death, sexual assault, in addition to loss of property. The attack on them mirrored the assaults in urban areas like Ahmedabad. The women sheltered in the camp told how men and children were killed and women gang-raped. Bilkis who was six months pregnant was subjected to the indignity till she became unconscious and was left alone in an unknown area.
In Vadivamanpur village, the police went to each Muslim house in the village and beat up and humiliated the women without any provocation on Moharram.
The Adivasis, the most disadvantaged sections, had been paid and used for the job by the more powerful political forces. With one exception, no Muslim was killed in the violence. The involvement of the adivasis was limited to economic crime - looting and arson. They did not humiliate or harm women. The Sang parivar mobilised the dalits and adivasis across the country against the Muslims. The fundamentalists exploit the illiteracy, poverty and unemployment of the disadvantaged sections of the society.
The March- April brutal violence in Gujarat is a state-sponsored genocide. It was marked by police inaction in some places and active agency in some other places. It was the result of careful planning, propaganda and indoctrination over ten years. The Sangh Parivar has hit two birds with one stone: Muslims have been eliminated and adivasis have been shown as criminals responsible for that elimination.
The forces of peace are very few and need to be enormously strengthened to combat this dangerous politics successfully.
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The continuing violence, orgy, killing and looting, targeting the minorities for the past two months in Gujarat is nothing but blatant state sponsored terrorism.
Every citizen who believes in democracy, secularism, and above all humanism, should hung his or her head in shame!
Are we living in a civilized society? Gujarath - the land of Gandhi, is sheding bloody tears.
It is a sad tragedy and 1947-48 communal rioting is being repeated mercilessly.
The President of India, His Excellency, K.R.Narayanan observed: "The situation in Gujarat is a crisis of our State and society. I am deeply anguished and pained by the violent incidents that have disturbed the peace and communal harmony in Gujarat and elsewhere. I appeal for restoring communal harmony and call on citizens to do everything to end the violence."
President is the true representative of 100 crore citizens of India. His voice is the voice of the people!
The National Human Rights Commission headed by the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, condemned the Government of Gujarat for the acts of omissions and commissions.
Even countries who are very friendly to India conveyed their unhappy feelings to the Government of India.
The investment climate in a developing country like ours, is terribly suffering and has a setback.
For the past few months, the attempt to build Ram temple at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and the Gujarat incident have put the Government on wrong priorities and dingy digressions.
The Parliamentary proceedings were stalled by the opposition and the solution was found out by the Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha by his ruling of discussion and voting under rule number 184 of the Lok Sabha.
On 30th the deliberations and discussions went on upto 4.30 a.m. and the censure motion was defeated by a margin of 94 votes.
The NDA Government headed by Hon'ble A.B.Vajpayee was saved.
But all the political victories need not necessarily be a moral or ethical victory.
It is a moral defeat for the NDA! Its own allies who voted against the censure motion and favoured the Government did not support the adamant attitude of sheltering Narendra Modi's action in Gujarat.
The operation came out successful, but the patient died. Yes. Except two Hindutva parties like BJP and Shivsena, no other allies came to the rescue of Modi's minority baiting which is a pre-planned, systematic inhuman Hindutva act.
Indian Social Action Forum 'INSAF' has brought out from Raipur, a report of its study team on Gujarat carnage bringing out in full the whole truth.
The NDA Govrnment should see clearly the writing on the wall. Let us think of ensuring peace and tranquility and instil confidence among the minorities.
Discard the false prestige and defend the democratic values.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A PEEP INTO THE TRAGIC EVENTS IN GUJARAT
Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF) is a national forum of about 500 social action groups, social movements and intellectuals. It is committed to resist globalisation, combat communalism and defend democracy. It was founded in 1993.
INSAF sent a team of seven persons from different parts of the country that toured the rural areas of Gujarat affected by the recent carnage. From April 2 to 5, 2002, they met the victims, visiting villages and relief camps. We give here a short summary of their findings.
They visited the relief camp at Chotaudepur on 2nd April and talked to many men, women and girls staying there. The victims were all Muslims and they gave the following information: The Sangh Parivar outfits like VHP made use of the Adivasis to attack them. The Adivasi youth had been offered money and encouraged that they could loot the property of the Muslims and that no police action would be taken againt them. In the beginning the Muslims of a few villages were assured safety. But the villagers could not carry out the assurance in the face of mob fury. There were no incidents of killing or rape in any of the villages in the tribal belt. The attackers damaged and looted the property. The economic base of the victims was destroyed.
The seven or eight Muslim families were fleeing with their belongings loaded in three trucks. They were attacked on the way by the adivasis who were drunk and acting on instructions. The belongings of the Muslims were burnt by the mob that came armed with swords, sickles, trishuls, guns etc.
The team spoke to the adivasi men and boys who took part in the loot and arson. They claimed that they had been urged. Their women stood by helplessly and wept. One woman asked the rioters to stop the violence. Her house was also burnt down!
The BJP members of the village of Jog asked the Muslims to leave. Even those who wanted to help could not do so. The local non-adivasi BJP leaders of the village Panvad brought adivasis from neighbouring villages and directed them to assault. Houses and trucks were burnt while the police watched. On the walls of the devasted houses they wrote slogans declaring Hindustan to be the land of the Hindus.
In Kadwal the mob razed to the ground the masjid that was under construction, and the books in it were burnt. Shakera Bibi, now in the relief camp in Chotaudepur, said: "It is the people in our village who identified our houses to the rioters who were mostly from other villages." They were given kerosine to burn the houses. They burnt the animals and took away the property. This happened on 3rd March. The instigators had given money to the adivasis to do this eight days before (that is prior to February 27, the day of the Godhra tragedy.) The adivasis know nothing of the difference between a mandir and masjid. The attack on Kawant village began on 11th March and continued for four days. They burnt down 154 Muslim houses of which 50 belonged to the Bohras.
About 4000 refugees were found in the relief camp in Godhra town. They were people from the Panchamahal distsrict. The attack on them began on 27th February, ie. immediately after the Godhra carnage. Unlike the Chotaudepur camp, the people here had suffered of death, sexual assault, in addition to loss of property. The attack on them mirrored the assaults in urban areas like Ahmedabad. The women sheltered in the camp told how men and children were killed and women gang-raped. Bilkis who was six months pregnant was subjected to the indignity till she became unconscious and was left alone in an unknown area.
In Vadivamanpur village, the police went to each Muslim house in the village and beat up and humiliated the women without any provocation on Moharram.
The Adivasis, the most disadvantaged sections, had been paid and used for the job by the more powerful political forces. With one exception, no Muslim was killed in the violence. The involvement of the adivasis was limited to economic crime - looting and arson. They did not humiliate or harm women. The Sang parivar mobilised the dalits and adivasis across the country against the Muslims. The fundamentalists exploit the illiteracy, poverty and unemployment of the disadvantaged sections of the society.
The March- April brutal violence in Gujarat is a state-sponsored genocide. It was marked by police inaction in some places and active agency in some other places. It was the result of careful planning, propaganda and indoctrination over ten years. The Sangh Parivar has hit two birds with one stone: Muslims have been eliminated and adivasis have been shown as criminals responsible for that elimination.
The forces of peace are very few and need to be enormously strengthened to combat this dangerous politics successfully.
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