People in the Indian state of Gujrat may have re-elected this butcher with an even bigger majority after this butcher instigated the killings of 2000 Muslims, and the expulsion of another 100,000 from their homes, but that does not stop the protests from survivors and relatives of the dead.
It is a sad state of affairs that supposedly secular India is allowing this facist butcher to represent India abroad.
Indian minister to face protests
The families of three British Muslims believed to have been killed in sectarian violence in India last year, are calling for an investigation into their deaths by the Indian Government. Relatives of the Britons will join a mass protest outside the Wembley Conference Centre in London on Sunday afternoon where Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state, is due to give a speech. Muslims from Bolton, Birmingham and Leicester are expected to demonstrate in order to highlight sectarian attacks by Hindu extremists in India. Up to 2,000 Muslims were massacred in communal riots in Gujurat state in India last year. Among them are thought to have been the three British Muslims from Yorkshire although the remains of two of them have never been confirmed as having been found. Protesters claim the government of Mr Modi - a hardline Hindu politician -failed to protect Muslims against the attacks. The Indian Government denies complicity in the violence.
Retaliatory attacks
The riots began after a train carrying Hindu activists was torched in Godhra, Gujurat, in February last year and 58 Hindus died. Their deaths sparked retaliatory attacks, in which at least 1,000 people died. Independent groups put the figure at closer to 2,000. Four Muslims from Yorkshire - Mohammed Aswat Nallabhai, Saeed Dawood, Shakil Dawood, and Imran Dawood - were attacked in their jeep by a group of Hindu extremists. The attackers murdered the local driver and torched the vehicle when they discovered the men were Muslims. The Britons who were on holiday in India tried to escape but were attacked by the mob. Mr Nallabhai and Imran Dawood were taken to hospital, where Mr Nallabhai died. Imran Dawood survived, but the fate of Saeed Dawood and Shakil Dawood - who were brothers - has never been determined.
‘What happened?’
Bilal Dawood, brother to Saeed and Shakil, said he wanted to send a message to Mr Modi. “We just want a proper investigation or a reinvestigation to happen,” he told BBC Radio Five Live. "We just want to know what’s happened, who’s done it, and why it’s happened, and the right justice process to be followed. "Modi is in charge of Gujurat state, so… he is ultimately liable for [these deaths]. “If the UK police, Jack Straw and Tony Blair say… they are willing to send Scotland Yard and Yorkshire police out there to assist, I don’t know why Modi and his counterparts are unwilling to take those options on.” Campaigners had appealed to the Home Office not to allow Mr Modi a visa but the Home Office says it had no grounds for such a refusal.
