"the Gujarat carnage stands out for its extensive and specific targeting of women, young girls and children, who were subjected to the most sadistic and vicious forms of violence... women suffered the most bestial forms of brutality, sexual violence, including rape, gang rape, insertion of objects into their bodies, stripping, molestation, cutting of breasts, slitting the stomach and reproductive organs, and carving of Hindu religious symbols on women’s body parts’ ... Rape was used as an instrument for the subjugation and humiliation of a community. A chilling technique, absent in pogroms unleashed hitherto but very much in evidence this time in a large number of cases, was the deliberate destruction of evidence. Barring a few, in most instances of sexual violence, the women victims were stripped and paraded naked, then gangraped, and thereafter quartered and burnt beyond recognition."
How does this does not bother you, how does this not shame you? And how do you feel nothing knowing no one was held responsible for these crimes? It's as if all these crimes never existed. They've even removed 2002 riots from textbook now. Essentially they want to erase public memory of their crimes. And we are playing complicit partners in this. And why would we not? As Hindus we like to portray we are peaceful and morally superior right? We are the best? You see, your god, if he does exist, knows who you are.
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On February 27, 2002, Vishwa Hindu Parishad called for a statewide bandh (shut-down) for February 28, a call that according to press reports, its cadre interpreted as a call to action. The state government headed by Chief Minister Narendra Modi endorsed this bandh, announced through a press note issued at 8 p.m. on February 27. This was taken by the VHP/Bajrang Dal as an endorsement of its stand.
Yes, Narendra Modi's govt endorsed strike/bandh/shutdown called by VHP. When rioters know political bosses are with them, how do you think riots will be? Severe and severe they were. The worst kind.
Indian army arrived in Gujarat soon after the Godhra carnage, the state government refused to deploy the soldiers until twenty-fours hours after they arrived and only once the worst violence had ended. By the time army was allowed by Modi to enter into state and act, 36 hours had already passed since riot started. Thirty six hours that establishment let rioters run their carnage. The army's inability to rapidly intervene was also hindered by the state government's failure to provide requested transportation support and information regarding areas where violence was occurring.
Several sites of burnt Muslim-owned restaurants, places of businesses, and hotels in Ahmedabad, Gujarat's commercial capital had police stations less than fifty feet from them. What's fifty feet even? And without exception, the Hindu-owned establishments neighboring the destroyed structures were unscathed. What does that tell you? The mob wasn't mad in anger - they were measured and calculative. And they had information that only state can have.
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The famous 500-year-old masjid in Isanpur, which was an ASI [Archeological Survey of India] monument, was destroyed with the help of cranes and bulldozers. The famous Urdu Poet Wali Gujarati's dargah was also razed to the ground at Shahibaug in Ahmedabad. While a hanuman [a Hindu god] shrine was built over its debris initially, all that was removed overnight and the plot was [paved] and merged with the adjoining road. No authority claimed any knowledge about the entire episode. It is worth noting here that the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which is responsible for the maintenance of all these structures, and for the building of roads, is run by the Congress [party] with a near two-thirds majority.
