Archive for May, 2008
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 [...]
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 Parsi Solapuri [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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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