Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media |
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. The report placed the number of riot-affected widows at 919 and the number of children orphaned at 606. The UPA government gives these figures, and hence they themselves may be inflated.
See link: http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=46538 or
http://news.indiainfo.com/2005/05/11/1105godhra-rs.html
Even the Indian Muslims’ English newspaper Milli Gazette also reported this.
The editorials of the national English dailies, and the articles published from the freelancers on the newspapers’ editorial pages are nothing but a pack of lies, akin the autobiography of Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, “In the Line of Fire”. Newspapers like The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, etc. continue to publish articles saying, “Win in Assembly elections of December 2002 does not whitewash Narendra Modi’s sins of the Gujarat pogrom of 2002 when 2000 innocent Muslims were butchered” or “The Gujarat pogrom of killing thousands of Muslims did not help the BJP in the long term” etc. etc.
All these numbers again came into the picture when Narendra Modi was denied a US diplomatic visa in March 2005 by the USA and his earlier tourist visa, issued in 1998 was revoked just one day before his scheduled visit to the USA. Why the USA took as many as three years after the Gujarat riots to revoke Modi’s earlier visa is not known.
But these numbers are nothing but a pack of lies. The number of Muslims killed in the post-Godhra riots is inflated and exaggerated to unimaginable levels. Let us see the interview given by the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to Aaj Tak’s Prabhu Chawla, excerpts of which were published in the weekly India Today, dated 4 November 2002:
“Q- Your opponents call you ‘Jinnah of the Hindus’.
A- I am hearing this for the first time though I still don’t consider you as an enemy.
Q- You are held responsible for the killing of 1,100 innocent people in the riots.
A- In our previous interview, you said 900 people. Now you are saying 1,100. Are you adding all the people killed in other states like Maharashtra and Bengal to Gujarat’s account?
Q- So what is the correct toll?
A- There would have been no riots in Gujarat if there had been no Godhra.
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Q-Do you accept that you failed to provide security to the people of the state?
A-98% of Gujarat would not have peace if we had failed to fulfill our duties. We managed to control the riots within 72 hours.
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Q-Why don’t you accept that Gujarat is being defamed because of Narendra Modi?
A- If that is true, give the people of Gujarat a chance to pronounce their verdict through elections.”
As we see, the number of people killed in the riots jumped from 900 to 1100 after Narendra Modi’s previous interview, i.e. within 4 months! Now it has jumped from 9,00 to 2,000. May be after 10 years, at this rate it will jump to 10,000! Already it is being said that, “thousands of Muslims were killed in Gujarat” and “3,000 innocent Muslims were butchered in Gujarat”.
What these lies have done to well-meaning people
It is generally believed, even in the Sangh Parivar, that the post-Godhra riots were one-sided. Anil Nair, Organiser correspondent in Mumbai reported in the weekly, dated 20 February 2005 thus:
“On February 10, Pakistan finally gathered the gumption to tell us that it was both-in Ahmedabad over 2,000 Muslims were killed in riots. Such polemics are useless; Pakistan is working on the presumption that the Congress government will find it hard to choose between national honour and secularism, and by all measure it will choose the latter at the cost of the former.”
Smriti Irani, BJP member and TV actress (mind the word actress and not actor), also said that she would sit on a fast until death unless Narendra Modi resigned by 25 December to help the BJP get a secular image once and for all in December 2004.
Most leaders of BJP are also blatantly ignorant of the truth of the Gujarat riots. Whenever Congress leaders or anti-BJP journalists raise the issue of the Gujarat riots on TV, the BJP leaders like Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Nitin Gadkari, Gopinath Munde, Prakash Javdekar, Sheshadri Chari, Shahnawaz Hussain, Harsh Vardhan etc hopelessly fail to give befitting reply. They falter in speech. They merely try to point out that the Gujarati electorate gave a huge mandate to the BJP and to Narendra Modi in the December 2002 Gujarat Assembly polls, and mention the Godhra incident as a cause of the riots. None of them ever points out any instance of Muslim aggression, sufferings of the Hindus in the riots, police firing deaths, or the fact that only 60 places out of 18,600 saw riots. This is because of ignorance and blind belief on media lies.
After every terrorist attack, the national English media rationalizes this deed on grounds of the ‘Gujarat riots’. The Gujarat riots were the result of the Godhra massacre. That the English media justified Godhra (as a response to the Ramjanmabhoomi movement in Ayodhya), did not justify or even rationalize the post-Godhra riots (which were the direct result of Godhra) where Muslims were killed and ignored the killings of the Hindus, and it tried to and tries to de-link post-Godhra and Godhra. And it rationalizes and/ or justifies the (so-called) ‘reaction’ to the post-Godhra riots.
The very fact that some terrorists claim that they “plan to avenge the Gujarat riots” clearly shows the devastating consequences of the media lies. The media lies today about Gujarat riots being a ‘pogrom’ and instigates innocent Muslims to terrorism.
In March 2005, the Pakistan cricket team was on a tour to India. It refused to play a Test match in Ahmedabad on ‘political’ grounds, i.e. for ‘the killings of Muslims’ in that city. All this is clearly the result of stark lies concocted by the biased media, which it itself may have started to believe by now. All these lies and myths need to be thoroughly exposed.
That the UPA government, with Congress President and Italian-born and staunchly anti-BJP Sonia Gandhi as the UPA chief, and Communists as outside supporters, gave the figure of 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus killed in the Gujarat riots inside Parliament is something worth pondering about. These figures themselves may well be exaggerated given as they are by a Congressman, who works under Sonia Gandhi.
India Today weekly reported in its issue dated 20 May 2002, when the riots had almost stopped that “Total dead- 972″ (For details, see page no 70).
Out of these 972, India Today included 57 people killed in Godhra. If anyone sees the English newspapers of those days, i.e. between 10 to 21 May 2002, no riots took place in Gujarat in those 10 days at all, and the Army left Gujarat on 21 May. A maximum of 20 more deaths might have happened in Gujarat after that. The death toll in Gujarat riots would thus be 935.
I myself recall reading in Nagpur-based English daily The Hitavada that 936 people were killed in the Gujarat riots after the Army left Ahmedabad on 21 May 2002.
Adding the UPA’s figures of 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus, we have a total of 1044 people killed in the Gujarat riots, a 100 more. Hence, the true figures may well be 682 Muslims and 254 Hindus, a total of 936 people killed.
But let us, for argument’s sake, assume that the figures given by the UPA government are correct. Does that give anyone the reason to believe that more than 790 Muslims were killed in Gujarat? Why should the English dailies and the 24-hour news channels lie through the skin of their teeth that 2000 Muslims were killed in Gujarat? A total of 223 people are said to be missing. Out of them, how many are Hindus is also not told. The maximum number of people thus killed in Gujarat, assuming that all the missing are dead would thus amount to 1267. There is no scope for anyone in the world, including the human-rights organisations and the US-based religious freedom groups and the TV channels like NDTV and company to report that one more than 1267 people were killed in the Gujarat riots.
Despite this, Prafull Bidwai, a self-proclaimed secularist wrote in Nagpur-based English daily, The Hitavada’s Sunday magazine, Insight in July 2006, soon after the Mumbai blasts that killed 187 people in the city, that, “VHP, Bajrang Dal and the BJP butchered 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat”. And he was not the only one. NDTV, mouthpiece of a political party, and that too the CPI (M), a Leftist party, reported a thousand times during the Lok Sabha elections of April- May 2004 that, “2000 Muslims were killed in Gujarat”.
2,000 is the number of Muslims who carried out the massacre and gruesome roasting alive of 59 Hindus-including 25 women and 15 children in Godhra. It is not the number of Muslims who were killed in the subsequent riots. There is no justification for violence-and of even a single death-be it in Godhra or after Godhra. But why lie throught the skin of your teeth that 2000 Muslims were killed when only 790 were killed? Who gains by these lies? And it is everybody’s duty to correct the figure. The point is- what should be reported is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
[...] Originally Posted by Jana I know why Gandhi was killed. And he was killed by these same followers of Hindu fundamentalists. Gujrat was indeed a massacar. For you 5000 Muslims were nothing who were killed?? check it out how many people are participating in hate rally for destroying Babri Mosque YouTube - DEMOLITION OF BABRI MASJID I wouldn’t say much. Just read it once. Read all the myths and then we shall talk again Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots | Gujarat Riots: The True Story [...]
[...] fair that the other side be given a hearing. Here are a number of links: Myths of Gujarat Riots Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots Myth 2: Muslims were ‘butchered’ in Gujarat Myth 3: Whole of Gujarat was burning [...]
@deepak :
using vulgarity is really not the a sign of modernity.You’re trying to depict yourself as modern,outward thinking,smart,cultured but you’re rancid comments totally destroy any thought that you’re mind workd like a hman’s.Spewing pure ,utter unadulterated crap is not the option,go to a shrink and get your mind checked up.What the RSS stands for preserving of OUR culture and traditions ,national honour ,prestige and is a paradigm of of organizational efficiency.Wherever there has been any human or man made disaster the RSS is there working w/o any care as to the identitiy of the person or his religion.Christian missionaries use this as an opportunity and gifts the victims a bible and muslims try to brain wash them.BJP lost the elections because of organizational chaos and not because congress ne koi tope mar diya hai.They didn’t project a leader with whom the masses could identify with,so they decided to go with Congress as they had n other choice….and no nt because of Mr.Rahul Gandhi.
And the chaos which u see in the BJP is typucal in any successful democracy where every1 is given an option to express themselves,….
so it’d be appreciated if you kindly remain quiet from now on.
[...] fair that the other side be given a hearing. Here are a number of links: Myths of Gujarat Riots Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots Myth 2: Muslims were
So as I enjoyed my weekend in my backyard…I had a revelation, that I would like to share on this site.
Repeatedly it has been said through this useless site and propagandist leaders of RSS/VHP/BJP and so on, that they are working for hindus, for their uplift, their security. Repeatedly they accuse Congress of looting the nation, and creating all bad condition in this country for last 50 years
Now as I understand, if any organization is doing such great deeds for a country’s masses, then it should have unanimous support and they should believe in its ideology. Now if I ask us all, Who will closely relate to ideology of RSS? BJP or Congress? We all know the answer, can’t be congress, for them it is the number enemy of India!!
Now if BJP is the one following the ideology of a organization that is doing so much for the country, then why elections are elections, this party is making it a culture to see defeat? humiliation?? What does that tell us about the ideology??
Think about it, we are going far ahead, the miserable supporters of these terrorist organization want to leave them, but they are helpless, just like a Heroine addict wants to stop taking the drug, but he feels helpless and every day injects that poison in his body! THIS IS IS THE SAME CONDITION FOR THESE SLAVES, THEY NEED THIS SLAVERY. VIVEK, RAHUL, RAM, ARJUN ALL ARE DIFFERENT NAMES BUT A SINGLE SLAVE, SLAVE WHO HAS NO RELIGION, NO FAMILY, NO VALUES AND NO PRIDE..
Your so called secularism is become poison for Hindu religion. For Muslim people,Congress was changed the code of Hindustani Sanvidhan.Rajive Gandhi changed this in only one night(famouse Shabano case)lekin aap ki congress Hindu logon ke liye aisa karegi?answer is No.Kashmiri Pandits are thrown out of their origion land.many Pandits are suffering from Asthama,Broncoitise etc.governtment do nothing for them just because of they are Hindus.In west Bengal,Hindu is always butured like chicken by muslim people.but CPM is not utter even single word in favour of Hindu people.
This all incident indicated that blind secularism can’t give proper justice to Hindu people.Hindu should fight for itself.Nahi to barbadi hain!
Jai Shree Ram! VANDEY MATARAM!
To,Deepakji,
Rasta Roko is not big think.Main bhi ye kar sakta hun!Hi Hi Hi fu fu! Beta,pahale logon ko ikattha kar ke dikha tab bad me rasta roko kar wo bhi Gujarat me!samze?
Literate and educated people hate you!… Oh…really?Sarsangh chalak Dr.Mohanji Bhagwat is doctor by degree,VHP leader Dr.Pravinji Togdiya is M.D.by degree,President of Bajarang Dal Prakashji Sharma is lawyer by profession and many swayamsevaks are more educated than you.Many educated people though they are not swayamsevak,funding us since many years.get it?
we can do whatever as we wish! To rastepe nange hokar se sab karke dikho na,tumhe kya fark padta hain?Ham bhi ye sab dekh lenge mazese! US ke culture me tum fit ho,Wahi rahana,Hindustan me mat ana,Nahi to puri Hindustan ko ganda kar doge!
You shameless guys are totally unknown about our culture,and trying to show how are you modern! Shame on you! Agar ye hi sab karna hain to shadi karte kyu ho?girlfriend rakho,jo karna he karo,chhod do! M.K.Gandhi is your idol,correct? Then M.K.Gandhi was always against high living and drinking a liqure but you guys are always show the foot to M.k.Gandhi’s teaching!
kashmir was under rules of congress at the time of Amarnath land problem,that time Sangh Parivar was stopped all transportation,arranging bandh in the kashmir ghati for 3 months,In Maharastra,In Miraj riots,Sangh Parivar burned out many Masjid,Dargah,In orrissa,Sangh Parivar killed many christian people,In Kerala,VHP killed many christian people under rule of communist party,kya ukhada apke congress aur communist party ne hamara?
Have you take a Theka of Secularism?
You have nothing to do for secularism.tell me,you are always in favour of secularism but what are you exactly doing for Muslim and christian child?Apna job and US chhod ke Hindustan me aao and do something for Muslim people.if you have guts,then raised voice against HSS in the USA.ban it.Then tell me about secularism’s power. Ok?
i want to ask one question why are Hindus celebrate Gudhi Padva for one another special reason?
not everyone is having sex with each other of valentines day!! It is only vulgar people who think like that, just because some people do that, no one can BAN valentines day in India.
It is impossible for anyone to stop people from living their life.
If you re really worried about saving the culture, first save millions of indian girls being soled into prostitution and been used ny hindu/non-hindu men alike. You guys never bother about that, just need a issue that can become POLITICAL. This is the only reason for you HINDUTVA DRAMA.
First worry about indian girls been trafficked out of India for sex, save them before worrying about other people. EVERYONE HAS RIGHT TO MAKE THEIR CHOICE, you have not taken THEKA for everyone!!
Simlarly, NOone has to answer to question about indian history. We can study and learn what we want, this country is not yours alone, everyone has right to do what they like.
As far as you guys do not interfere in other’s privacy and value human life, you could be social organization, till then you r eline with other terrorist people like LET, JEM, ALQAEDA.
How many national TVs have ever recongnized you?? Any awards given in recent times to your leaders?? Dun mention about 1960 parade,. Nehru was a idiot and even your party says it.
No one ever likes you, your ideas only work with illetrate masses. All educated people, live their life there way, they dun care about some HINDUTVA DRAMA AND BULLSHIT YOU WANT TO PREACH THEM.
Truthg is India is secular and will remain secular.
You guys are not that strong that you cna attack us in states rules by non-BJP govt, your power only comes in effect in BJP states, because no action is taken against uyou. All other states, havbe you under control.
Delhi literally has no sign of VHP or RSSD ACTIVITY, Rasta Roko karna is not a big thing, it is peaceful thing, even i cna do it, try to do hungama in delhi, like closeing the shops, then watch what happens…
You guys have no control over youth of india, we love to party, go to clubs, make gfs, bfs and if we have sex before marriage, it is our choice, NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. WE CAN DO WHAT WE LIKE, WE DON;T A STAMP FOR RSS LEADERS LIKE BHAGWAT TO DO WHAT WE WANT TO DO.
To,Deepakji,
we can never forget a issue of Ram temple.Ham Ram mandir jarur banayenge but we have many things to do for Hindus.
Ram mandir kyun nahi bana paye itne salo me?
Deepakji,now take it seriously.actually things that we have enough fund and many swayamsevaks to build a Ram temple.but since last 12 years,RSS has realised that the problem of Purvanchal is very serious because RSS is lost nearly 4000 young swayamsevak in the Purvanchal since last 12 years in the attacked of Maoist and Christian cadre.Now,Purvanchal are 80% converted either into christian or Muslim religion.Hindus are almost minorities there.This problem is worry for Sangh Parivar.We are trying hard there but finanancial from foriegn churches and supply of weapons by china to Maoist are creating lot of problem for Bajarang Dal and VHP.We have already started a welfare programme in the Adivasi sector where the fear of conversion can be more.and we are hoping that the rate of conversion will come down atleast by 9%.Due to this,the issue of Ram temple is remain incomplete.Now,RSS is decided that Sangh Parivar should focus on save Purvanchal Programme.It is not fake story.It is a real fact told to me by ABVP leader who is recently came in our Shakha from Purvanchal for meeting.(iss leader ke kandhe par bullets lagi thi jo christian cadre ke support par maoist ne fire ki thi.)belive me.The condition of Purvanchal is very serious.If you have get some days free from your job,visit Purvanchal as a tourist.Speak with RSS worker.you will realise that ye SECULARISM apne desh ki kya vat laga raha hain!
The commitement or guts showing by RSS worker,like this,will your congress show us?
US me baith ke post likna easy hain dost,lekin kaam karna assaan nahi hota!
Wake my friend!Muslim and now christian religion is become threatning for Hindustan! Thats why,in 2000,The Pope John Poul Second said into one speech in Asia that upto 2038,all Hindustan should be converted into Christian religion!
Jai shree Ram! vandey Mataram! Long live Hinduism!
To,Deepakji,
As per my opinion Valentine day is related with only western culture not Hindu culture.Hath me hath dalke cinema dekhana itni tak ye bat simit hoti hain to h i assure you i will support to valentine day.But after a coming from Theatre,what couples did in lodge,it is very shameful.i am against of it.Physical relationship before marriage is very unacceptable thing.Every religion has a special culture and due to some circumstances,after many years,it became a like rules and regulation.Hindu culture is much special than any other culture.Valentine day ke bad ladkiyon ke liye problem hoti hain jo weh ghar me nahi bata sakti.Agar ladkon ne uss ladkiyon ko as a wife accept kiya toh no problem for us.lekin nahi kiya to frustration ke alawa kuch nahi milega ladkiyon ko! Valentine day ke time ye sab josh me rahate hain,ham kaise inhe samzaye!girl can hide what she did in lodge by using security tablet,but once she did it,and if she got frustration then it is not easy to come out of it.And in Hindustan,law is very weak and it can not give proper justice to girls.
Second thing is that is this way to show a love in the street? Sal bhar me itne din hote hain lekin inn logonko wo hi din milata hain just because of stamp given by western culture? Don’t accept another culture blindly.chose good things of other culture and throw bad things in the dustbin!
I would like to share another thing with you Deepakji! Please come in Hindustan and go to Mumbai’s colledges.ask some question related with Hindu culture.some as follows:
a)Tell the name of mother of Lord Ram?
b)Tell the reason ,why Hindu people celebreted Diwali as a festival?
c)Tell the name of our DharmaGrantha?
Deepakji, it is only simple question.But i assure you that 95% collegegoar’s answer will be “i don’t know”! but if you asked one question to them that tell me date of V.Day.then 95% collegegoar’s answer will be “14 February”! Deepakji think on it.RSS is never raised hand against Hindu girls,but we are against of V.day.
Ever and forever!
Jai shree Ram!