[Reader-list] India on a list of countries which have failed to protect its religious minorities adequately

[Murali V]

The lone survivor of the Sabarmati Express train fire at Godhra in
which 59  were killed on 27 February, 2002, Gayatri Panchal, a
resident of Ahmedabad, has decried the U.C. Banerjee Commission
report. Though she survived, she lost both her parents on that day.
She has decried the U C Banerjee Commission report and has said: 'I
will stick to the version that the coach was attacked by an armed
crowd. The report of the Banerjee Commission is absolutely wrong. I
have seen everything with my own eyes and barely escaped myself but
lost both my parents. Mobs pelted stones at the coach for long and
then threw in burning rags and also poured some inflammable material
so that the coach was on fire. I will maintain the same wherever I am
called to depose on the matter.' Nor am I. It is only when one side of
the picture is projected, I am bound to present the other side of the
picture as well. This may appear to many as though I am supporting the
riot and rioters.

Regards,
V Murali
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Rakesh Iyer<rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Godhra is a 'luke-warm' case (not for me, because the truth is still
> elusive) because the reason or the manner of the death of those 58 people is
> still not known. And please don't tell me that the Nanavati Commission has
> given its report. The report was categorically rejected by the SC, which
> then constituted an SIT to investigate the case. What's more, even now some
> of the people have not been identified. Yet, they were branded as
> 'karsevaks' and violence was conducted in their name.
>
> How come that is justifiable? The truth about Godhra needs to be found out,
> so also justice for those who lost their lives in 'revenge' acts.
>
> Can the 'victims' now come out of their sense of victimization? Or is it
> always there in them as it is, since their birth and continuing till death?
>
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