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Tuesday, Jul 16,2013, 16:36 IST .
She begins her piece with the line:"In defence of the
insulting and repugnant 'puppy' analogy he used when asked in an
interview about the 2002 pogroms in Gujarat, Narendra Modi tweeted
"In our culture every form of life is valued and
worshipped." Except, he could have added, if you are a Muslim
or a Christian."
This is an extreme..
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Sunday, May 13,2012, 11:12 IST .
We have already seen the steps taken by the Government to quell
the violence, and in saving the lives of the victims- for example
in Sanjeli, Bodeli and Viramgam areas of Gujarat. Hindus were also
saved from violent Muslims in many places in Gujarat- like in
Jamalpur on 1 March 2002 and in Modasa on 19 March 2002 when
Muslims attacked. But there has also been a claim by many that the
Gujarat ..
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Friday, May 04,2012, 13:27 IST .
Fact: Out of Gujarat’s 18,600 villages, the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (VHP) had units in 10,000 villages at the time of the
riots of 2002. If it had wanted- it could have easily organized
retaliatory riots in many of these 10,000 villages. Instead-only 40
out of the state’s 18,600 villages saw riots. VHP General Secretary
Dr Praveen Togadia is a Patel and hails from Saurashtra region
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Friday, Apr 27,2012, 00:29 IST .
Fact: The police was slow to act on Muslim fanatics for fear of
being called ‘anti-Muslim’ by the media. As many as 170 people were
shot dead by the police in Gujarat- i.e. killed in police firing.
Muslims greeted the police, and also the army, with bullets and
turned off the power supply, and also started riots and accused the
police of being biased, when the police came to searc..
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Thursday, Apr 19,2012, 23:32 IST .
"Ahmedabad has a police force of 6,000, including 1,500 armed
personnel. In addition, the entire state has just four companies
(530 jawans) of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) of which only one
company could be spared for Ahmedabad. Considering that the mobs
that simultaneously surfaced at nearly half a dozen places numbered
from 2,000 to 10,000, the forces proved woefully inadequate. At
one..
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Friday, Apr 13,2012, 00:22 IST .
Fact: While Muslims were killed in one-sided attacks in many
places in the state- like in Naroda Patiya, Gulbarg Society, Naroda
Gram, Sadarpar and other places- by and large- the riots were not
entirely one-sided. Muslims were equally on the offensive, at least
after the first three days. Hindus were killed brutally in
Himmatnagar, Danilimda, and Sindhi Market and other areas of
Ahmedabad-as..
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Friday, Apr 06,2012, 09:23 IST .
Fact: As per figures given by the Union Minister of State for
Home Shriprakash Jaiswal, who belongs to the Congress Party, in
Parliament on 11 May 2005, 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed
in the riots, 2548 people were injured and 223 people were missing.
This was in a WRITTEN REPLY to a question asked by a Congress
member on the religion wise casualties in Gujarat after Godhra. The
repor..
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Friday, Mar 30,2012, 00:13 IST .
The Gujarat Government spent a lot of money for providing relief
to the riot victims. None other than the UPA Government’s MoS for
Home Sriprakash Jaiswal said in the Rajya Sabha that too in a
written reply on 11 May 2005. He said an amount of Rs 1.5 lakh was
paid by the government to the next of kin of each person killed. In
addition, Jaiswal said relief was also extended by the state ..
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Thursday, Mar 22,2012, 23:07 IST .
Here in this 4th episode of the series, we present some excerpts
from media reports published then, which highlight the facts, which
were later buried in the anti-Modi noise created, catalysed and
corroborated by the same media.
The Hindu - 4th March 2002 “AH..
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Friday, Mar 16,2012, 00:24 IST .
On the second day of riots i.e. 1st March 2002, the Army staged
a flag march in Ahmedabad at 11:30 AM. The Hindu reported "The
Army began flag marches in the
worst-affected areas of Ahmedabad, Baroda, Rajkot and Godhra cities
and the 'shoot at sight' order w..
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Friday, Mar 09,2012, 12:41 IST .
Now-the government faced genuine difficulties in controlling the
anger of the masses in view of the limited police force. Uday
Mahurkar wrote for weekly India Today dated
18 March 2002:
“Ahmedabad has a police force of 6,000, including 1,500 armed
personnel. In ..
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Thursday, Mar 01,2012, 23:11 IST .
The much-hyped, much-repeated allegations of the Indian media,
both electronic and print, that the post-Godhra riots of 2002 in
Gujarat were “sponsored” by the state BJP government, or at least,
“the state government turned a blind eye to the rioting” are
nothing but a figment of their imagination, stemming out from their
biased and prejudiced vision.
Two surv..