Most of the times, I condemn Pakistani govts and army for violation of human rights of Pakistanis, Afghans and Indian Kashmiri Hindus, because it is difficult to criticize one’s own country than others. I often tend to ignore abuses in other countries, as others do it a lot. But this has gone way beyond tolerance limit.
This is the worst condemnable violation of basic human rights of muslims in India. How can secularism or democracy be defended in India? What is the supreme court doing? What is Congress doing? What r media ppl doing? It is war crime that BJP is involved in.
http://news.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=2765801
Modi wants probe only for Godhra violence
BHARAT DESAI
TIMES NEWS NETWORK MONDAY, MARCH 04, 2002 3:47:53 PM ]
HMEDABAD: The ruling BJP government in Gujarat is in no mood to extend the terms of reference of the proposed judicial inquiry commission into the Godhra train incident to its bloody aftermath all over Gujarat. Read this story in…
Hindi
A clear message to this affect had come from the Union Home Minister L K Advani in Ahmedabad on Sunday when he said that “these two are separate matters, they should not be linked together”.
Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who had announced a judicial inquiry into the Sabarmati Express tragedy in Godhra on Wednesday last, is said to be looking for a retired or sitting Gujarat High Court judge to probe the matter but it has been made clear to the prospective candidates that the riots in Ahmedabad and rest of Gujarat would not be a subject of their investigation.
At least one of the judges approached by Modi is understood to have asked the chief minister clearly whether the riots after the Godhra incident would also be covered by the inquiry commission. The reply was in the negative.
Sources said that at least three judges, including a sitting judge of the Gujarat HC and a former acting chief justice of the Bombay High Court had been approached for the probe and the announcement is likely to be made later this week.
Sources said that while the Godhra incident was best investigated by the police and other agencies to look at the aspect of whether the incident was pre-meditated, there was a need for a thorough probe into the bloody aftermath. Aspects like the BJP’s support to the VHP’s bandh on Thursday, the soft approach towards the rioters on the first two days and the slugging reaction of the entire administration were best probed by the judiciary .
And that’s precisely why the Modi government does not want an all-encompassing judicial probe to open a can of worms which will explode in its face. However, the judicial intervention is likely sooner than later in the form of public interest litigations which may also call for a full-scale probe.
[This message has been edited by FreeMind (edited March 04, 2002).]