", If "someone else is driving a car and we’re sitting behind, even then if a puppy comes under the wheel, will it be painful or not? Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). The 31 convicts were convicted under the Indian Penal Code sections related to criminal conspiracy, murder and attempt to murder. According to reports, Congress Party councillor Taufeeq Khan Pathan and his son Zulfi, notorious gangsters, were allegedly seen leading Muslim rioters. Hindus again showed remarkable restraint after Islamic terrorists killed forty BJP activists, allegedly "Hindu Nazis", in Coimbatore in 1998... Hindus have been killed with great frequency in Jammu, even the parliament buildings in Srinagar and Delhi were attacked, yet the Muslims remained unharmed. Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu Sanity (2007). There is something profoundly worrying in the response of what might be called the secular establishment to the massacre in Godhra...Some versions have it that the karsevaks shouted anti-Muslim slogans; others that they taunted and harassed Muslim passengers. This should be viewed as a crime committed against humanity...remind all the political leaders in India that it is not only the minorities who enjoy rights under the Constitution. Some individuals who had participated in the conspiracy appear to be involved in the heinous act of setting coach S/6 on fire. As soon as the media persons moved away, she instantly stopped howling. Then I fainted.’”. The television news channels showed the pictures of the burning S/6 coach and the dead bodies throughout the day. Therefore, they wanted to drag on the camps for as long as they could. One fourth of the dead in the ensuing riots were Hindus. These Dalit families claim that they had been attacked by the people belonging to the minority community, who damaged their houses, property and drove them out of the area. The plan was to burn the entire train with more than two thousand passengers in the wee hours of February 27, 2002. The governments of the day kept a blind eye to all this. The existence of camps gave them legitimacy to raise funds within the country and abroad. also at. Injuries were suffered by another 48 passengers in the train. It is headed by Dr. Amar Singh, a member of parliament from Samajwadi Party, who spoke with two of the Hindu victims of the train-burning incident in Godhra. It became another political platform for racketeers. Those who had seen the charred bodies shiver even weeks after the incident while recalling the gory scene. Lalu Prasad today accused Nitish of closing the Railways' probe in Godhra train burning incident to suit the interest of Narendra Modi. ... the appointment of the U.C. Modi, Muslims and media: Voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat. Here’s all you need to know about the 2002 Godhra train burning case: On the morning of February 27, 2002, a coach of the the Sabarmati Express — Coach S6 — was set ablaze and 59 passengers travelling in that coach were charred to death. p. 204. Justice Nanavati and Justice Mehta, “Part I: Sabarmati Express Train Incident of Godhra,” , quoted from Kishwar, Madhu (2014). Madhu Purnima Kishwar: Modi, Muslims and Media. I handed over to the Nanavati Commission the entire list of charges they had listed in their memorandum. Baldeep Singh photographer was with me. But something was missing. Modi, Muslims and media: Voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat. The Godhra train burning case has been a dark chapter of Indian democracy. The second incident took place around 11 a.m. A Muslim owner of an Eicher truck was surrounded by a Hindu mob. A lady was sitting with him with a tape recorder tutoring this Muslim from Karnataka to say, “I am so angry at the riots that I am going to become a terrorist.” Teesta has a real perverse streak in her. New Delhi: On Sunday morning, a railway bogie was set on fire in Vadodara to recreate the 2002 Godhra train burning – so that makers of biopic on … About 550-odd residents of the Prem Darwaja Vagheri Vas, Dariyapur, had no choice but to leave behind their belongings and take shelter in a near-by temple, following the violence of March 21. It is to be hoped that the same is realized and adequate measures are taken to address the shortcomings, and prevent such incidents in the near future. The first charge-sheet in the Godhra Train Burning case was filed by DySP KC Bawa, the Investigating Officer, on 22nd May 2002 alleging that the S6 coach was burnt from outside by the use of some inflammable fluid (He did not clearly specify whether the inflammable fluid was petrol, kerosene or diesel). They were interested in continuing with the camps because they had started siphoning off a portion of government funds and relief. The state used to explode into violence every second month? On 3 rd or 4 th of March, I entered Shah Alam dargah, which had been converted into a refugee camp. My mother was in flames, her clothes were on fire,’ she said. The Gujarat High Court on Monday commuted the death sentence awarded to 11 persons in the 2002 Godhara train burning case to life imprisonment. The Gujarat government later raised questions on the acquittals, a series of appeals were filed in the Gujarat High Court challenging the convictions. Modi, Muslims and media: Voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat. Justice D. S. Tewatia, Dr. J. C. Batra, et al., Godhra Carnage-Justice Tewatia Report, Council for International Affairs and Human Rights, Delhi, April 2002, Quoted in Kishwar, Madhu (2014). There was fire inside and armed Muslims outside. It was a pogrom, not a riot, and on a scale never seen before or since 1947. Some people have decided to pillory one man for their vested interests. There is never much difference between secularist reporting and Islamist propaganda anyway, which is why Indian theocratic Islamists call themselves "secularists". April 21, 2002. The cause of this massacre was said to be burning of a train at Godhra railway station that killed 58 Hindu pilgrims .Modi declared the attack on the train … I did not handpick him but I asked the Supreme Court to suggest names. So, Muslims committed a pogrom, and then riots ensued; big riots but by no means “unprecedented”. “Dalits suffered heavily during Gujarat riots. I suppose free speech includes the right to speak nonsense. It's a crime against humanity: Jayalalithaa, http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20020228/news/302289980, Gujarat after Godhra: real violence, selective outrage, "Personal experience of interaction with Modi", Politics By Other Means: An Analysis of Human Rights Watch Reports on India, https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Godhra_train_burning&oldid=2873818, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. This should be kept in mind when assessing the Hindu loss of self-control after the Godhra massacre. Many of the bodies were charred horrifically. p. 194, with reference to Justice Nanavati and Justice Mehta, “Part I: Sabarmati Express Train Incident of Godhra,”. Koenraad Elst: Religious Cleansing of Hindus, 2004, in: Elst, K. The Problem with Secularism (2007). The Problem with Secularism (2007). The report of Dr Suvarna Rawal published in Marathi daily Tarun Bharat dated 21 July 2002. The court’s verdict came on appeals filed by the convicts and the prosecuting agency. After Nitish lost the railway minister’s post following the defeat of the NDA government in 2004, the Congress Party-led UPA government appointed Lalu Yadav as the new railway minister. Modi, Muslims and media: Voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat. The blame for the train fire was directly placed on Muslims of Godhra by the government of Gujarat. Few politicians, human rights activists or media persons have had a kind word for them. The Godhra train burning incident that led to the Gujarat riots of 2002, is a dark blotch in the history of a country which is proud of its diversity. Most Hindutva sources, searchable on the internet but otherwise quite unreported in the Western media, have emphasized that most victims were "women and children", implying a big question-mark over the description of the Godhra victims as "militants". The Godhra Train Burning was an incident that occurred on the morning of 27 February 2002, in which 59 Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from Ayodhya, were killed in a fire inside the Sabarmati Express train near the Godhra railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat. The Sabarmati Express had begun its journey from Muzaffarpur and was on its way to Ahmedabad. Madhu Purnima Kishwar: Modi, Muslims and Media. Inside the coach, 58 charred bodies were found. Police came within 20 minutes. The Banerjee Committee submitted its report on March 3, 2006 just ahead of the Bihar assembly election with the barely-veiled purpose of consolidating Muslim votes in favour of Lalu’s party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal and its ally, the Congress Party. If Hindus had mustered courage to do that, each and every Hindu in Pakistan would have been killed after horrible tortures. Elst, Koenraad. Abdullah Ibrahim Syed, quoted from Madhu Purnima Kishwar: Modi, Muslims and Media. Unfortunately, these bizarre stories about the self-ignition of the coach were given respectability by the then Railway Minister Lalu Yadav who appointed the one-man committee in September 2004 under retired judge U.C. after the Mumbai blasts of March 1993, all remained quiet. Therefore, keeping camps going had become a lucrative business for some. There was no one to ask them for accounts. He testified, that they were “shouting slogans which had the effect of hurting the religious feelings of the other community,” and heard announcements like Islam khatre me hai, Maro, kato ( Islam is in danger, let us cut them up and kill them)– coming from loud speakers of the Ali Masjid. After the unfortunate happenings in Gujarat, the Congress and its pseudo-secular supporters took the lead in a sustained campaign against my party by propagating, essentially, three lies, which are still in circulation... Strangely, instead of clearly, straightforwardly condemning the act, the Indian English-language press tried to justify it: “Pilgrims provoked by chanting pro-Hindu slogans” (they were not slogans but bhajans, or devotional songs, ending with “Jai Sri Ram” (Victory to Sri Rama). Simpi (Witness-25). On one side of the dargah there is a big room where one lady named Belim was briefing the press and giving highly exaggerated accounts of what had happened. Munshi, Indian Constitutional Documents: Pilgrimage to Freedom, 1902-1950, Internationally influential media like the Washington Post copied from an Islamist website rumors about Hindu provocations behind the Godhra carnage, falsely claiming a Gujarati journalist as source, and never publishing a correction when the journalist in question denied ever having put out such a story. He was handed over to the Special Investigation Team (SIT). So, they falsely started describing the victims as "extremists" and inventing stories of how these Hindu children had kidnapped a Muslim woman into their riding train. HRW, however, did not provide one iota of evidence in the report to back up its assertion of the state having planned the violence in advance. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2016. "It is very strange and saddening to see that when such acts are perpetrated against the minorities, all political leaders rush to issue statements of condemnation. Hindus had often refused to be provoked into taking their anger out on their Muslim neighbours, e.g. KM Munshi quoted from Kishwar, Madhu (2014). Singh, T. (2016). Malhotra , Reported in Times of India,17/12/1990. GODHRA TRAIN BURNING. HRW’s most extensive publication on India was its 2002 report on the Gujarat violence. This page was last edited on 12 October 2020, at 04:29. Yakub Pataliya is accused of being a part of the mob that torched the coaches of Sabarmati Express near Godhra railway station on February 27, … That would help us learn from our mistakes. The moment retaliatory violence sparked off in the rest of Gujarat, the Godhra massacre was underplayed and sought to be erased from public memory as if it had nothing to do with the riots that followed. Muslims also retaliated with stones. In panic, he mowed down the crowd. They alleged that the Godhra incident was due to government’s failure or complicity, not a planned attack by Muslims. The average victim of communal violence in independent South Asia is a Hindu, though you wouldn’t say it if you trust this book, let alone Indian secularists’ writings. 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A Commission of Inquiry was constituted by the Gujarat government headed by then Chief Minister Narendra Modi. If I’m a chief minister or not, I’m a human being. They needed the Gujarat carnage, and they thanked Heaven when it finally materialized. Rioting did not start in the morning of February 28. But even the appointment of Justice Nanavati became a target of wild aspersions by Congress-supported NGOs, even though the judge had not been arbitrarily chosen by Modi. 59 karsevaks were burnt to death in a most horrifying manner. 11 Lalu Yadav, in fact, rushed the Committee to release its interim report just ahead of the 2005 assembly polls in Bihar. p. 193. Modi, Muslims and media: Voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat. The Commission in its report submitted that most of the 59 people killed were kar sevaks who were returning from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines. The latest is their "report" claiming that the Hindus in the train had themselves lit the fire, in a gigantic mass suicide. And yet, they went hammer and tongs at me. The report claimed that the attacks on Muslims were all state sponsored and planned in advance of the Godhra incident. The violence in Gujarat was terrible but it was a real communal riot since both Hindus and Muslims were among the dead. Even the Gujarat carnage remained confined to a few cities in one state, and when Islamic terrorists killed more than thirty Gujarati Hindu worshippers in the Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar only a few months later, there was no Hindu retaliation, in accordance with the old pattern. The bias is further confirmed when the report titled the chapter on attacks on Hindus as “Retaliatory Attacks on Hindus” while the chapter on attacks on Muslims was titled, “Overview of the Attacks Against Muslims.” While the Hindu mobs were said to have chanted “Jai Sri Ram” when attacking Muslims, the report conveniently avoided incidents where the Muslim mobs shouted “Kill Hindus. In the third incident in Naroda Gam, a group of Muslims murdered a Hindu cyclist. They told us about the earlier riots in which the Hindus were mostly at the receiving end. A genuine pogrom was, however, what triggered them: Muslims setting a train wagon on fire, killing 58 Hindu pilgrims. Many more people had been killed in communal violence in successive routine riots that sometimes led to more than 200 days of curfew, as happened in 1989, but because the violence in 2002 was India’s first televised communal riot it had come to be known as ‘the worst communal violence anywhere in India since 1947’. This incident was used to organize large scale massacres of Muslims across the state. The Banerjee Committee also argued that the mob at Signal Falia consisted of “innocent” bystanders and that the fire could have been either due to stove burst or electrical short circuit. This lie was perpetuated not just by the Indian media but by important international newspapers. The charge that the CM forced the relief camps to close while the victims were not ready to go back is baseless. What they narrated to me showed that the media, particularly, English-language media were lapping up one-sided news portraying Modi as the Demon and all his opponents angels. p.198. This was followed by serial bomb blasts. Tens of thousands were rendered homeless as well. Voices from Narendra Modi’s Gujarat, Manushi Publications, Delhi 2014. According to these versions, the Muslim passengers got off at Godhra and appealed to members of their community for help. In three days more than 3,000 Sikhs were killed in Delhi alone and not one Hindu. It … She had started tutoring witnesses from the start as though she was just waiting for this riot to break out. Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya on the Sabarmati Express train were attacked. FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES- GODHRA AND AFTER- A Field Study By Justice D. S. Tewatia, Dr. J. C. Batra, Dr. Krishan Singh Arya, Shri Jawahar Lal Kaul, Prof. B. K. Kuthiala. Therefore, the theory that the post-Godhra riots of 2002 were part of a well-crafted BJP conspiracy is all bunkum. They burnt houses of 35 Hindu families.... Yusuf Ajmeri with a 1000 strong mob and with swords and guptis in their hands rushed to Hindu locality shouting "Kill Hindus, Allah is with us". There is no evidence regarding involvement of any definite religious or political organization in the conspiracy. The claimants would have to provide details of the deceased and their relations with them, address proof, contacts, other government documents to the State Legal Service Authority … Modi, Godhra: The Missing Rage (New Delhi: Prabhat Prakashan, 2004), pp 26-29 quoted from Kishwar, Madhu (2014). Even in dealing with the government, some of the camp organisers had started inflating figures regarding the number of inmates. “It’s because they were returning from Ayodhya, where they asked for the reconstruction of a temple at the traditional birth place of Rama; this offends the feelings of the Muslims.” In sum, the victims, roasted alive, were guilty. When he reached the site of accident from Vadodara at about 11a.m., he saw a mob of about 2,000 to 2,500 persons near Ali Masjid. Godhra train burning was an incident that occurred on the morning of 27 February 2002, in which 59 people died in a fire inside the Sabarmati Express train near the Godhra railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat . (p.204). The Gujarat riots were not the worst communal riots even by Gujarat’s own standards. Best Bakery case (1 March 2002) It involves burning down of the Best Bakery, a small outlet in … There were several instances of stone-throwing on Hindus passing through Muslim dominated areas of Ahmedabad. These included some Congress members of the Nagarpalika. The victims included 15 children, including some toddlers and some old people of above 65. Though disgusting, it was at the same time quite funny to watch the extreme inventiveness of the secularists in blaming the victims. 11 of the 31 convicts were given the death penalty while the remaining were given life imprisonment. But when persons belonging to the majority are subjected to similar perpetration of heinous crimes, not a single political leader has so far issued a statement condemning this barbaric crime. The attackers poured petrol into the compartment and then set it afire. After handfuls, dozens or hundreds of Hindus were massacred, Hindus all over India maintained calm and refused to take their anger out on their Muslim neighbors. NDTV, the most steadfast mouthpiece of the Congress Party, played a key role in creating a distorted discourse on Godhra carnage because of the prestige it then carried. As documented by the Nanavati Commission 1 , some of the leading accused and convicted turned out to be Congressmen of Godhra. They had given a memorandum to the President against me. He gave a detailed description about government action on rioters, curfews which were imposed in Gujarat as soon as riots were started, the police action on rioters and many more things. Trials in the case started over eight years after the incident on June 1, 2009. Violence broke out on 27 February in Godhra, a district headquarters in eastern Gujarat. Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society. Upset over the verdict in the 2002 Godhra train burning case in which 11 convicts were sentenced to death and another 20 given life term,Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (JUH) on Monday pledged to help all the 31 convicts appeal in a higher court. Justice Nanavati is a retired Judge of the Supreme Court. What is the 2002 Godhra train burning case? I took whatever name was suggested by the Supreme Court because I wanted this enquiry to be done through a proper judicial process. There was no Hindu retaliation to the Mumbai bomb blasts of March 1993; to the numerous group killings of Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir; to the mass killing of Hindu activists in Coimbatore in February 1998; to the frequent reports of pogroms on Hindus in Bangladesh; or to the attacks on the Parliament buildings in Srinagar and Delhi in the autumn of 2001. Thus, the first three persons to be killed in mob violence on February 28 were Hindus. Mr. Modi paused for a little while and then started explaining to me in detail the events which happened on that day and thereafter. I have allowed the media to behave as it wants. What is always overlooked in a discussion of the Gujarat carnage, is how exceptional this type of Hindu retaliation to a Muslim act of aggression (the Godhra pogrom, cfr. Gujarat HC verdict: All you need to know about Godhra train burning case A coach of the Sabarmati Express was burnt on February 27, 2002 at the Godhra station, triggering riots in the Gujarat. By contrast, the sizably smaller Gujarat riots were two-sided. No one talks about the fact that we maintained absolute peace even after that provocation. One person was crushed to death. Some of these riots were far more deadly than the 2002 outburst. The Indian Express, dated 7th May 2002, also written by Palak Nandi: “With no relief, they turn to religious places for shelter Palak Nandi. I was a personal witness to the following incident. In the original East-European setting, if 58 Jews got killed, that was called a pogrom, right? Why was it necessary if they were the main aggressors? The Indian Express is now on Telegram. Salim Khan, quoted in : Madhu Purnima Kishwar: Modi, Muslims and Media. What made those 40,000 Hindus rush to relief camps? These included 26 women and 12 children. “Sixteen-year-old Gayatri Panchal saw her mother, father and two sisters die before her eyes in the train fire as they returned home after participating in a religious ceremony at Ayodhya. Narendra Modi: A political biography. Decades ago, a prominent Congress leader, Kanhaiya Lal Munshi (1887-1971) had warned his party colleague, and the then Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru (1889-1964) in a letter stating, “If every time there is an inter-communal conflict, the majority is blamed regardless of the merits of the question... the springs of traditional tolerance will dry up.” Far from heeding this warning, under the guise of upholding secularism, the Congress Party has made demonisation of the majority its main political plank. It had become a daily ritual to bring in media persons, especially the foreign media, to talk to tutored victims, who began to exaggerate and overstate their case in order to garner more funds from abroad. Nor were they as one-sided as they came to be projected. They were very annoyed that the Gujarat carnage was so unambiguously started by Muslims with their massacre of Hindu pilgrims, mostly women and children. 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