Archive for May, 2008
Role of the Government in controlling violence
Posted on May 25, 2008 - Filed Under 02- Role of the Government in controlling violence
The much-hyped, much-repeated allegations of the Indian media, both electronic and print, that the post-Godhra riots of 2002 in Gujarat were “sponsored” by the state BJP government, or at least, “the state government turned a blind eye to the rioting” are nothing but a figment of their imagination, stemming out from their biased and prejudiced [...]
Read More..>>Concocted Lies And Myths By The Media
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
By now we have seen much of the reality of the post-Godhra riots. The entire media continues to concoct white lies on this subject. In this chapter, let us see some of the malicious lies circulated by the media, NDTV in particular, and company. Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots Myth [...]
Read More..>>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. This was in a WRITTEN REPLY to a question [...]
Read More..>>Myth 2: Muslims were ‘butchered’ in Gujarat
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Undoubtedly, Muslims were killed in one-sided attacks in many places in the state- like in Naroda Patiya, Gulbarg Society, Naroda Gram, Sadarpar and other places- but by and large- the riots were not one-sided- and Muslims were hardly the cattle hiding from the slaughter house. As we have seen in a couple of earlier [...]
Read More..>>Myth 3: Whole of Gujarat was burning
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Out of the state’s 18,600 villages, 240 municipal towns, and 25 district headquarters, only 60 places saw riots. If one includes the two big cities of Ahmedabad and Vadodara, by the wildest stretch of imagination, only 2 % of the state can be assumed to have been burning. Only 40 out of the state’s [...]
Read More..>>Myth 4: The Gujarat police turned a blind eye to the rioting
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Even though the situation was terrible, the police performed its work extremely efficiently. The police force was woefully insufficient. Uday Mahurkar reports for India Today (18 March 2002): “Ahmedabad has a police force of 6,000, including 1,500 armed personnel. In addition, the entire state has just four companies (530 jawans) of the Rapid Action [...]
Read More..>>Myth 5: Gujarat police was anti-Muslim
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Far from it, the police was slow to act on Muslim fanatics for fear of being called ‘anti-Muslim’ by the media. As many as 170 people were shot dead by the police in Gujarat- i.e. killed in police firing. Muslims greeted the police, and also the army, with bullets and turned off the power [...]
Read More..>>Myth 6: Gujarat riots were the ‘worst ever massacre’ in India
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Gujarat riots of 2002 AD were absolutely nothing as compared to Gujarat’s past riots of 1969 and 1985 AD. They were still nothing as compared to Gujarat’s riots of 1980, 1982, 1990, and 1992. And they were again nothing as compared to pre-independence riots of the 1940’s in Ahmedabad when the Hindu community took [...]
Read More..>>Myth 7: Only Muslims were rendered homeless and suffered economically
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: As early as 5 March 2002, out of the 98 relief/ refugee camps set up in the state, 85 were for the Muslims and 13 were for the Hindus. As on 17 March 2002, as per the report of a newspaper as anti-BJP as The Times of India, 10,000 Hindus were rendered homeless in [...]
Read More..>>Myth 8: The Gujarat government was involved in the riots
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: The full details of the role of the government in controlling violence can be seen in this article: http://www.gujaratriots.com/29/role-of-the-government-in-controlling-violence/ Gujarat government of the BJP, headed by Narendra Modi was blind to the mushrooming of madrasas in the state. Not only that, the previous government headed by Keshubhai Patel too was equally blind to the [...]
Read More..>>Myth 9: Gujarat riots were like the 1984 anti-Sikh riots
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: There was a contrast of day and night in these two riots. NDTV, the mouthpiece of the CPI (M), and company, and other stark liers like Arundhati Roy, Teesta Setalavad, and others deliberately misled the nation by equating the two riots. In May-June 2005, NDTV deliberately asked a question to its viewers in its [...]
Read More..>>Myth 10: Gujarat became a dangerous place to live in, in 2002
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact:: The opinion poll by the weekly India Today in its issue dated 25 November 2002 asked a question to its respondents- “Do you feel secure living in Gujarat today?” in which more than 68 % people including more than 56 % Muslims felt secure. While commenting on the entire poll, India Today reported, “Voters [...]
Read More..>>Myth 11: In Ehsan Jafri’s case, women were raped
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: The following is some part of Arundhati Roy’s article in weekly Outlook dated 6 May 2002 on the Ehsan Jafri case: “Last night a friend from Baroda called. Weeping. It took her fifteen minutes to tell me what the matter was. It wasn’t very complicated. Only that Sayeeda, a friend of hers, had been [...]
Read More..>>Myth 12: The photo of Qutubuddin Ansari is genuine
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: This photo is reproduced here in this book on page 136. This photo has been used repeatedly to tarnish the name of BJP, VHP and the Bajrang Dal throughout India. The victim, Qutubuddin Ansari, is seen pleading for mercy to the rioters. Later he is shown in Kolkata, living happily on the help given [...]
Read More..>>Communal history of Godhra for the record
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 01 - The Godhra Carnage
Godhra is main centre of Panchmahal district, which is considered to be communally very sensitive. Chronology of a few communal riots/atrocities is appended below: 1927-28 Murder of Shri P. M. Shah, a leading local representative of the Hindus. 1946 Mr. Sadva Hazi & Mr. Chudighar, pro-Pakistani Muslim leaders were responsible for attack on a [...]
Read More..>>The entire happenings in Godhra-How the massacre occurred
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 01 - The Godhra Carnage
We have seen the bloody communal history of the town. Now let us see the exact horrid, lurid details of the massacre of 27th February 2002 with the background. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) had organized a ‘Purnahuti Yagya’ in Ayodhya in February- March 2002. People participating in this ‘Yagya’ had simply participated and gone [...]
Read More..>>Account of a 16-year-old survivor
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 01 - The Godhra Carnage
On the 27th February, the Ahmedabad bound Sabarmati Express, carrying karsevaks from Ayodhya was barbarously attacked and burnt at Godhra in which around 60 karsevaks laid their lives. Gayatri Panchal a young eleventh class student was also amongst those who were returning from Ayodhya. She is a surviving witness to the inhuman atrocious cruelty in [...]
Read More..>>The reaction of the English media
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 01 - The Godhra Carnage
The rioting in Gujarat in the first three days after Godhra was a result of not just the massacre at Godhra. It was the result of something else. And this something else was the reaction of the Left-liberal-secular media. The media in general and TV channels like Star News-NDTV (who then had a collaboration) in [...]
Read More..>>The concocted ‘provocations’
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 01 - The Godhra Carnage
As Vir Sanghvi says- Some versions have it that karsevaks shouted anti-Muslim slogans, others that they taunted and harassed Muslim passengers. In the first place, this too is completely wrong, since there is not an iota of evidence to support any of these claims. But despite this, the TV channels and most of the print [...]
Read More..>>Godhra was planned, post-Godhra was a result of provocation
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 01 - The Godhra Carnage
Godhra was clearly a planned, unprovoked attack. It is impossible for it to have been the result of petty quarrels at the Godhra railway station. Vir Sanghvi has already seen it in his article. As he says, slogans shouted from a moving train or a railway platform cannot enrage local Muslims, and 2,000 Muslims cannot [...]
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