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	Gujarat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gujarat borders Pakistan, and the states of Rajasthan to the north-east, Madhya Pradesh to the east, Maharashtra and the Union territories of Diu, Daman, Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the south.
		Gujarat was a major center of Indian Ocean trade, and their capital at Anhilwara (Patan) was one of the largest cities in India, with a population estimated at 100,000 in the year 1000.
		Gujarat was hit with a devastating earthquake on January 26, 2001 at 9:00, which claimed a staggering 20,000 lives, injured another 200,000 people and severely affected the lives of 40 million of the population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gujarat (3342 words)

	2002 Gujarat violence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term 2002 Gujarat violence refers to the riots that swept through Gujarat in February 2002, in which, eventually, at least a thousand people died.
		Riot cases are under investigation in an official inquiry comprising of Justice (retd)G T Nanavati and Justice (retd) K G shah.
		On its part the Government of Gujarat refuted the allegations and chargesheeted R B Sreekumar in connection with his ‘‘semi-official’’ diary on the grounds of releasing official documents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2002_Gujarat_violence (1793 words)

	Asia Times: Muslim women bore the brunt of Hindus' Gujarat rampage
		Across Gujarat today, there are more than 100,000 refugees living in camps, many of them former businessmen and professionals and their families who survived the killings and rape and now have nowhere to return to because their homes have been pillaged and burned down.
		Part of the reason the panel recorded the testimonies of rape survivors in Gujarat was so that justice can be secured for them and because many women in the camps are still willing to testify given the assurance that justice would be done, she said.
		One immediate consequence of the violence in Gujarat is the creation of a large number of female-headed households because of the killing of male members, and of destitute single women, including widows.
	www.atimes.com /ind-pak/DD19Df04.html (1053 words)

	India
		In January 2004, the CBI began the reinvestigation of the rape of Bilkis Bano during the 2002 riots, and the murder of her relatives.
		In January, the Charity Commissioner in Gujarat sent letters mainly to Christian faith-based charities asking for their financial statements from the preceding 10 years, claiming that he was acting at the behest of the Government of Gujarat.
		In May, former Gujarat governor and senior BJP leader Sunder Singh Bhandari stated that the Narendra Modi government was at fault for delaying action against the rioters in 2002.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51618.htm (20127 words)

	India: Protect Witnesses in Gujarat, Conduct Investigations (Human Rights Watch, 14-4-2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gujarat's police and justice system are protecting the guilty and are undermining activists, lawyers and even the National Human Rights Commission.
		For justice to be done for victims of the Gujarat riots, impartial investigations have to be conducted and witnesses have to be protected so they can testify without fear.
		In previous reportson the 2002 Gujarat riots Human Rights Watch has identified the failure to prosecute even known abusers and a lack of political will, both in Gujarat state and at the national level, to identify those who planned the attacks.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2004/04/13/india8429.htm (980 words)

	Onlinevolunteers.org - Gujarat Carnage: The Aftermath: News: Archive (January-March 2004))
		As the courts hear cases stemming from the anti-Muslim riots of March 2002, the authorities in Gujarat are intimidating rather than protecting witnesses who seek to bring the perpetrators of the violence to justice, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
		In a significant disclosure, a senior bureaucrat of Gujarat government today told the Godhra riots inquiry commission that the decision to bring the charred bodies of 59 Ram sevaks killed in the brutal train carnage on February 27, 2002 in Godhra, to a hospital in Ahmedabad, was that of Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
		Regretting the 2002 riots in Gujarat, one of the worst ever in the nation, Advani said the incident was avoidable.
	www.onlinevolunteers.org /gujarat/news (5642 words)

	The Muslim News
		The families of Muslims killed in an attack during the 2002 Gujarat riots have filed lawsuits against Hindu nationalist organisations.
		The lawsuit refers to an attack on a housing society in Gujarat's commercial capital, Ahmedabad, in which 39 people were killed.
		The Gujarat riots were sparked off by an attack on a train in the Gujarati town of Godhra.
	www.muslimnews.co.uk /pda/news.php?article=9358 (273 words)

	A glimpse into Gujarat riots -DAWN - National; 08 February, 2004
		LAHORE, Feb 7: Indian activist, scientist and documentary film-maker, Gauhar Raza's audio visual documentation of the Feb-April, 2002, Gujarat riots is a glimpse into the communal forces imperilling the secular structure of India.
		The 2002 Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujarat, the worst in the history of the subcontinent since the partition, appalled people like Gauhar Raza for whom the discriminating divide between Hindus and Muslims was more political than cultural.
		The Gujarat carnage is seen by Raza as a pocket of occurrence not shared, nor concurred, by India's one billion people.
	www.dawn.com /2004/02/08/nat28.htm (768 words)

	International News -- 2002 Gujarat Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The American, more profane than profound, describes the Gujarat riots with angry text, going far enough to make censor-pushing statements like: 'The Parishad is this country's equivalent of the KKK [Ku Klux Klan]'...
		Gujarat is among the states where the polls will be conducted in the first round.
		The riots broke out after 59 Hindu pilgrims were burned to death in an attack on a train.
	pluralism.org /news/intl/index.php?xref=2002+Gujarat+Riots&sort=DESC (1185 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Gujarat riot cases to be reopened
		Nearly 1,600 cases relating to the 2002 religious riots in the Indian state of Gujarat are to be reinvestigated, police say.
		The Gujarat government has been criticised for its handling of the riots and its alleged failure to provide justice to the victims.
		The riots were among the worst in India since partition in 1947.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4693412.stm (358 words)

	Riots Kill 20 in Gujarat, India - 2002-02-28 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The disturbances were sparked by the deaths of 58 people, mostly Hindu activists, who died on Wednesday in an attack on a train that is being blamed on Muslims.
		Authorities in Gujarat say they have arrested several hundred people following Thursday's disturbances and violence in the state appears to be winding down.
		Army troops are enforcing a curfew in Gujarat's biggest city, Ahmedabad, after mobs of youths rioted earlier in the day - burning shops and stoning cars in mostly Muslim neighborhoods in the city.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2002-02/a-2002-02-28-11-Riots.cfm (457 words)

	anti-caste: notes on the muslim question: the gujarat massacre, 2002
		On February 27, 2002, 59 people were killed in a fire on board a train in the Indian state of Gujarat.
		These attacks were clearly the result of systematic, detailed, military-style planning done at least months in advance (possibly in anticipation of riots triggered by the campaign in Ayodhya).
		The gangs of young men who took part in them, many of them wearing saffron headbands and chanting obscene chauvinist slogans, were lavishly equipped with vehicles, mobile phones, and arsenals of weapons--including stockpiles of municipal gas cylinders that are only available through the state.
	www.anti-caste.org /muslim_question/gujarat.html (574 words)

	'Punish perpetrators of Gujarat riots'
		It said although the BJP-led central government was "not directly responsible for instigating the violence" against religious minorities, it "clearly did not do all in its power to pursue the perpetrators of the attacks and to counteract the prevailing climate of hostility against these minority groups, especially at the state and local levels".
		Referring the February 2002 Gujarat riots of "particular concern" to it, the commission said the Narendra Modi-led BJP government was "widely accused of being reluctant to bring the perpetrators of the killings of Muslims to justice".
		Contending that "few persons had been arrested and held to account for the deaths", it said in the wake of "failures" of the Gujarat government, the Supreme Court had declared in October 2003 that it had "no faith left" in the state's handling of the investigations.
	www.rediff.com /news/2006/may/04guj3.htm (679 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Arrests over Gujarat riots case
		The Gujarat riots were India's worst religious violence for a decade.
		The Gujarat riots started after 59 Hindus were killed in an attack on a train carrying Hindu pilgrims in February 2002.
		The Gujarat authorities have been criticised for their poor handling of riot cases.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/3419695.stm (362 words)

	Welcome to rediff.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gujarat was a reaction to the burnings in the train.
		Where are dialogues for the riots during division of India, the Ranzakar massacre of Hindus in Hyderabad, elimination of Pundits from Kashmir massacre of minorities in Bangaladesh etc etc. Assuming that Modi organized the riots is nonsense.
		But what is most intriguing is the fact that the people have kept quiet after the recent riots barring a few like Mallika Sarabhai etc., How have the people absorbed this shameful act and not condemned the perpetrators, but on the contrary made their communal leaders more famous than before.
	mboard.rediff.com /board/board.php?boardid=news2005nov29inter1 (1117 words)

	The 2002 Gujarat Riots
		Gujarat riots embarrass me wherever I go, says Vajpayee
		NGO invited to bridge Hindu-Muslim gap in Gujarat
		Victims of riots battered to death in Gujarat
	www.ccsindia.org /gujarat_more.htm (290 words)

	Pickled Politics » Some justice for Gujarat victims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gujarat unfortunately has a long history of communal violence.
		Firstly the riots were triggered by Muslim fundy’s murdering Hindus in Mahim, then Shiv Sena stepped in ‘n then all the hell broke lose.
		It is my mistake to assume that immediately after you are done discussing the moral issue of the killings and pogroms of Gujarat 2002, you then use two large paragraphs on the conversion of Hindus by Christian priests and rabbis.
	www.pickledpolitics.com /archives/327 (9796 words)

	HeiDok - Jaffrelot, Christophe: Communal Riots in Gujarat: The State at Risk?
		Their goal is to provoke such kinds of riots in order to polarise the electorate along the religious cleavage more effectively.
		This explanatory model of Hindu-Muslim riots has to be verified again in the light of the Gujarat riots of 2002.
		Because, this time, communal violence was not so much a reflection of the common logic of communal riots in India, but rather the result of an organised pogrom with the approval of the State acting not only with the electoral agenda in mind, but also in view of a veritable ethnic cleansing.
	www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de /archiv/4127 (584 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		The former Prime Minister expressed the hope that Gujarat would not be repeated.
		His exclusion of Gujarat had come as a reprieve for chief minister Narendra Modi, who was under attack from his own MLAs for not delivering the expected number of seats in the general elections.
		Some BJP legislators had revolted against Modi and called for a change at the helm but gave up their demand after the leadership intervened.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040613/asp/nation/story_3365395.asp (543 words)

	Hits and misses of 2004
		Set in the backdrop of the Gujarat riots 2002, the film explored vested interests that come into play at such times.
		Though initially touted as an Amitabh film, it was the subject that overshadowed all else in this fairly, but not adequately, hard-hitting film that fictionalized the incidents and localized the individual pain that got lost in public gaze at the horror of the macro image.
		Incisively looking at the construction of a riot, this film needed to be made, so that such incidents are not repeated.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/specials/hitsnmisses2004/dev.htm (114 words)

	Gulberg was left to burn for a week in Gujarat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		More skeletons are tumbling out in the Gujarat police officials’ testimonies to the Nanavati-Shah Commission probing the 2002 Gujarat riots.
		The then Meghaninagar police station inspector KG Erda has told the commission that “the Gulberg society was allowed to burn for a week after the incident had occurred on 28 February 2002.” Therefore, all the remains of the victims were destroyed.
		Till date, investigators and top Gujarat police officials have maintained that it was Jaffrey who first fired at the mob, provoking it to burn the society down.
	www.aiccindia.org /news/gulberg_was_left_to_burn.htm (352 words)

	Court orders Gujarat riot review
		In its order, the Supreme Court called for the establishment of a cell headed by a senior police official to look into the circumstances in which the cases were closed.
		It has already ordered retrials in two riot cases, both of which will now be held in the neighbouring state of Maharashtra, after human rights groups petitioned the court saying that the victims could not expect a fair trial in Gujarat.
		The Gujarat riots deeply divided Hindus and Muslims living in the state and left a deep scar on the Muslim minority.
	homepage.mac.com /glgreen/iblog/B801331847/C466384896/E37378596 (355 words)

	News - Gujarat Genocide 2002: Pre-planned Attacks on Muslims - CAG
		Genocide in Gujarat - The Sangh Parivar, Narendra Modi, and the Government of Gujarat
		Set in Gujarat during the period February/March 2002 - July 2003, the film examines the genocidal violence of the Hindutva right-wing by exploiting the Godhra train incident and then goes on to document the various acts of brutality that marked the violence that followed.
		It travels with the election campaign during the Assembly elections in Gujarat in late 2002, and documents the spread of hate and fascism that accompanied it.
	www.coalitionagainstgenocide.org /news/2002.planned.php (139 words)

	Muslims hail US visa decision, India condemns \| Jafariya News Network
		WASHINGTON: American Muslims have welcomed while the Indian government and opposition condemned a US decision to refuse a visa to the Hindu-nationalist chief minister of Gujarat who is accused of complicity in a massacre of thousands of Muslims.
		The US revoked the visa of Narendra Modi for alleged violation of religious freedom citing his role in 2002 Gujarat religious riots that left more than 2,000 people dead, mostly Muslims.
		Earlier this week, two US congressmen introduced a resolution in the US House of Representatives criticizing Modi's conduct during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
	www.jafariyanews.com /2k5_news/march/19india_usvisadecision.htm (252 words)

	Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP)
		CJP’s activities in the last 4 years have been focussed on legal interventions to ensure justice for the victims and punishment for the perpetrators of the Gujarat genocide.
		CJP submits a detailed and a well-documented memorandum and leads delegation of victims to the Chief Election Commissioner, Lyngdoh, challenging the Gujarat government’s claim that the situation in Gujarat was normal to ensure a free and fair trial.
		Subsequently, when the CEC's decision was challenged in the SC, CJP filed written arguments before the Constitutional bench opposing snap polls in Gujarat.
	www.cjponline.org (529 words)

	Gujarat: Ex-prez Narayanan attacks Vajpayee
		Breaking his silence over two years after stepping down from office, former president K R Narayanan has criticised former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for his handling of the post-Godhra situation in Gujarat and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of stalling a second term for him.
		Claiming there was a conspiracy involving the state and central governments behind the 2002 Gujarat riots, he said
		K.R.Narayanan is a big hypocrite.Where did his constituitional prorpiety and responsibility go when he gave two chances to Sonia Gandhi to bring in the numbers...
	in.rediff.com /news/2005/mar/02prez.htm (522 words)

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