[Reader-list] are these nationalists

[Pawan Durani]

At least 6 years after the Gujarat riot , which started after some
fundamentalists burnt alive scores of Hindu Pilgrims returning from Ayodhya
, few people were convicted.

Compare it with the case of Kashmiri Pandits , even after 18 years , not
even a single person has been convicted in Kashmir for killing of more than
3000 Kashmiri pandits . Not to talk of rape and arson against this
community.

For that reason that the state is ruled by camouflage Islamic fundamentalist
and Islamic groups are in majority.

When will the justice be served to Kashmiri Pandits ? At least in Modis
gujarat ....it has been served.....



On 1/18/08, S.Fatima <sadiafwahidi at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> Friends
> Look at these two news items for what's being
> discussed on this list right now:
>
> 12 convicted in Bilkis Bano rape case
> 18 Jan 2008, 1710 hrs IST,PTI
> MUMBAI: Twelve persons, including a police official,
> were convicted by a special court here on Friday in
> the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case related to the
> post-Godhra communal violence in Gujarat.
>
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/12_convicted_in_Bilkis_Bano_rape_case/articleshow/2711484.cms
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> 'Modi gave us a free run to do whatever we wanted'
> 26 Oct 2007, 0101 hrs IST,TNN
>
> NEW DELHI: "We made a complete rocket launcher here...
> We distributed so many weapons, people were shocked.
> We'd make them here and then test them."
>
> Here are some more such shocking 'testimonies':
>
> Suresh Richard, an accused in the Naroda Patiya
> episode in which over 200 Muslims were officially
> estimated to have been killed, said on camera that
> Modi visited the locality the same evening, February
> 28, and thanked the perpetrators of the violence
> saying, "Aap dhanya ho... (You are blessed)."
>
> Rajendra Vyas, a senior VHP functionary who was on the
> Sabarmati Express that was set on fire in Godhra,
> said, "The Muslims had played a one-day match with
> us... They have given us a target of 60... We have to
> win this match at any cost, so don't stop till you
> have made 600 runs... Modi gave us a free run to do
> whatever we wanted... The police were with us..."
>
> Babu Bajrangi, a Bajrang Dal activist who has been in
> the news for blocking the carnage movie Parzania from
> being screened in the state, revealed that police
> commissioner P C Pande, who has recently been moved
> out of the DGP's post by the Election Commission, had
> ordered that the 700-800 dead bodies at Naroda Patiya
> be clandestinely picked up and dumped all over
> Ahmedabad.
>
> "The commissioner came that night and said that if
> there were so many dead at one place, it would create
> trouble for him... After killing them, I felt like
> Maharana Pratap... We killed at will, turned the place
> into Haldighati."
>
> Key witness in the Godhra case, Ranjitsingh Patel, a
> petrol pump employee who deposed that he had sold 140
> litres of petrol to the accused on the eve of the
> Sabarmati episode, admits that he and his colleague
> were both paid Rs 50,000 each by Noel Parmar, the
> chief investigating officer.
>
> "Noel saheb gave me fifty thousand, showed me a
> photograph and said I had to identify him." Two BJP
> members, Murli Mulchandani and Kakul Pathak, who
> claimed to be eyewitnesses to the Godhra attack and
> identified many of the accused, admit they were not
> even at the station that fateful day.
>
> Mulchandani said: "I wasn't at the station, I was
> sleeping at home. But the police put me among the
> witnesses." Pathak said, "The police gave all the
> names. None of the eyewitnesses wrote their
> statements. The police did."
>
> Arvind Pandya, the government's counsel in the ongoing
> proceedings before the Nanavati-Shah Commission
> probing the carnage, said that the accused had nothing
> to fear from either of the retired judges. "Nanavati
> is a clever man... He wants money... Of the two
> judges, Shah is intelligent... woh anpe wala hai (he
> is our man)... he is sympathetic to us... Nanavati is
> after money."
>
> Bharat Bhatt, a public prosecutor, said that he was
> shielding the Hindu accused even as he was supposed to
> be arguing against them.
>
> "I tell all the Hindus not to smile when they see
> me... not to say a word to me. I tell them that I will
> scold them if they do so... Sometimes I deceive
> them... I scare them but later show my affections
> too..."
>
> In the Gulbarg Society massacre, accused Madan Chawal
> gives a first-hand account of how former Congress MP
> Ehsan Jafri was hacked limb by limb and burned. He
> says Jafri offered them money in return for his life.
> "We said yes. When he came out, we took the money and
> pounced on him."
>
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