Nine Hindus convicted of Gujarat Muslim massacre in India

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Nine Hindus convicted of Gujarat Muslim massacre in India

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060224/wl_asia_afp/indiaunrestgujaratjustice_060224080604

MUMBAI (AFP) - Nine Hindus have been convicted of killing 14 people in an arson attack on a bakery during anti-Muslim riots in India’s western Gujarat state in 2002.

All nine were sentenced to life in prison by Judge Abhay Tipsay after being found guilty of setting fire to the Muslim-run Best Bakery in Gujarat’s Baroda town.

Eight other people were acquitted Friday while four accused are still on the run.

The Best Bakery incident came amid a wave of bloody reprisals for the deaths of 59 Hindus in a train coach allegedly torched by Muslims in February 2002.

Witnesses testified that hundreds of Hindus came to the bakery carrying swords and petrol bombs and torched the ground floor of the owner’s house next door. The fire quickly spread to the adjoining bakery, trapping and killing those working inside.

The prosecutions’s main witness, Zaheera Sheikh, told an earlier trial in Gujarat that, while hiding on the roof of a neighbouring building, she saw the attack and could identify those responsible.

However she later recanted her testimony and the trial collapsed.

The Supreme Court consequently ordered that the case move from Gujarat to Mumbai, capital of adjoining Maharashtra state, for a retrial because of concerns of witness intimidation.

Sheikh, who was 17 at the time of the killings, and four members of her family were convicted of perjury and will be sentenced at a later date, said special prosecutor Manjula Rao outside the court.

An Internet news portal claimed some Hindu politicians had paid Sheikh to change her testimony.

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Hopefully, some Muslim guppies will realise the difference between state sponsored religion, and people for political gains using religion after this...

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For those who died it probably did not make much of a difference. More needs to be done to stop all sort of extremism.

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How stupid can you be??

During the riots of 2002 Gujrat, 250 Hidus and 790 Muslims were killed and now…now nine are convicted. After that your Narendra Modi supervised a state sponsered genocide program where over 2500 Muslims were killed. Especially women, who were dragged out of their homes, gang raped than murdered. No period in history marks the kind of butchery that was displayed against women.

The murderers were than aquictted due to red tape and prevalance by Modi and Co.

Gujarat government indicted by NHRC

*In a severe indictment the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India’s official human rights watchdog, severely criticized the Modi government in Gujarat for its comprehensive failure to control persistent violation of the rights of life, liberty, equality and dignity of the people of the state. The commission has demanded that the guilty be brought to book and has asked for handing over the investigation of the riots to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s premier intelligence agency.

In its final report, the commission has documented the manner in which criminal cases arising from the violence are being fudged. The commission pooh-poohed most of the claims Gujarat government made in its April 12 reply to the commission’s preliminary report.

The NHRC has taken the state government to task for failing to respond to its earlier confidential report. It said that there was a comprehensive failure of the state to protect the constitutional rights of the people of Gujarat. Gujarat government’s responsibility, according to the commission, is “tacit if not explicit.” *

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Same to you buddy...... you didn't even understand the point....... So I can't keep discussing further.....

About women being abducted, that's happening to minority on daily basis in Pakistan. Do I need to go to thread of three Hindu girls being abducted in Karachi, which led nowhere. As well report within that thread about 17 such incidents within Karachi.
I don't want to get into an abusive debate, so I may not be responding after this....

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I know what you mean by difference between state that represents a religion and people who abuse that power and majority for political gains. What happened in Gujrat and Ahmedabad was a massacre and slaughter of Muslims.

On Febuary of 2002, a mob set fire to Muslim locality killing more than 100 people. Police did not help, no body came to help and bodies burn for days and days. It was a systematic, planned massacre of Muslims and justice is not done to the lives that were lost. What happened in Gujrat and Ahmedabad mainly was a massacre of innocents and the state did nothing about it. India did nothing about it. Muslims bussiness were lootted and burn to the grounds. Mosques and dargas were razed, after that replaced by statues of Hanuman and saffron flags.

You can not call it a riot. It was genocide, pure and simple and the police were given orders to do nothing about it. There was no such thing like a political gain rather than hate that caused it and the authorities instead of stopping, supervised it. These convictions and arrests do not help the cause. Real people involved in the massacre are still out there including Narendra Modi.

pakora
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People don't want to understand. Current Panchayat election Muslims in big numbers voted for Modi, Gujarat is fastest growing state economically in India. Though for Some Muslims worldwide its a parameter to justify any wrong they do and if any Hindu questions that....
Its like all the chukkers one side and are legitimate since you have Harbhajan Singh, who was questioned......
No point trying to show shades of grey to people who don't understand mixing of colors and world comes in black and white...
If you tell them something is wrong with them, they turn around and say you are also wrong... rather than looking and saying yes we are wrong... lets rectify that first.....
Never did rational thinking, so what do you talk about......

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2500 Muslims buctchered and the man that ordered these killings - Modi - is still in power.

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You have obviously read little or no hidtory of India. Auranzeb’s reign in the 17 th century saw much bigger atrocities against hindus and hindu women. Not that I am defending Gujerat massacre, but you simply choose to ignore the history of hindu musilm relations in India over centuries.

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Its called democraZy

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conviction rate is very low . even if muslims indulge in mob violance most of them will be let go

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_acq

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Its wonders of democraZy, blame it on the victim.

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because of the carnage bjp lost the election

Even in a predominantly Hindu village in remote Gujarat, where the major concern of the people was with water and not politics, barring one individual, everyone (including those who supported the BJP) expressed utter shame about the carnage that had occurred.

If the government had brought some of these criminals to justice there would have been protests by some political groups for sure, but the silent majority would have respected the decision.

Some initial reports suggest that, while the BJP never had much support among India’s minorities, this time it lost support among Hindus

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3721217.stm

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A hate figure among Muslims, the state leader of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was swept back into power in December 2002.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1958555.stm