India: Gujarat riot Muslims 'eliminated'

BBC News ^ | 04/14/05

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Gujarat riot Muslims 'eliminated'

 

The state government of Narendra Modi denies the allegations

A police officer in India's Gujarat state says the government there authorised the killing of Muslims three years ago.

RB Sreekumar made the allegation in notes he kept at the time while serving as Gujarat's intelligence chief.

The Gujarat government says the charges are baseless and untrue, instigated because Mr Sreekumar was not promoted.

Officially more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims, died in religious riots in Gujarat in 2002.

Human rights groups say many more were killed.

Mr Sreekumar was appointed intelligence chief in April, 2002. Sporadic violence was still occurring in Gujarat then, after the worst of the rioting in February and March.

His allegations relate to his dealings with the Gujarat government after his appointment.

The Gujarat government issued a statement on Thursday denying the charges, saying they had "no veracity".

'Unconstitutional directives'

Mr Sreekumar has submitted his notes to India Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) which investigates complaints by civil servants.

He brought a case against the Gujarat government, saying he was denied a promotion for refusing to act upon the "illegal and unconstitutional directives" of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as well as the state government and senior state police officers.

The Gujarat riots of 2002 left at least 1,000 people dead

Mr Modi has been criticised for his handling of the riots at home and abroad.

In the notes, Mr Sreekumar alleges that the chief minister asked him to tap the telephones of Shankersinh Vaghela, who was then president of the Congress party.

He said that he was also asked to tap the telephone of cabinet minister Haren Pandya.

In the notes, Mr Sreekumar also says that senior government officials sent messages asking him to kill Muslim extremists who were involved in rioting.

'Elimination' order

He alleges that the state police chief told him in May 2002 that Gujarat's most senior civil servant had spoken about "eliminating those Muslim extremists who are disturbing the communal peace of Ahmedabad".

Mr Modi has wide support among Hindu nationalists

The city is Gujarat's commercial centre.

In an entry in June 2002, Mr Sreekumar wrote that a senior civil servant, G Subba Rao had told him to "eliminate" any person trying to disrupt a Hindu religious event in the state.

"He (Mr Rao) added that this is the well considered decision of Chief Minister Narendra Modi," Mr Sreekumar wrote.

He further claims that when he informed Mr Subba Rao that such "elimination" was illegal, he was told that "such action can be taken on situational logic".

'Tutor him'

In another entry in May 2002, Mr Sreekumar wrote that Narendra Modi asked him to concentrate on suspected Muslim militants as hardline Hindu activists are "not doing anything illegal".

He also alleges in his petition that state government lawyers tried to "tutor him" before he submitted his deposition to the commission.

Mr Sreekumar's lawyer Anand Yagnik told the BBC that the tribunal had issued notices to Mr Modi and other government officials requesting them to reply by 9 May to the allegations.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4445107.stm

[TigerLikesRooster]

Hmm..., bare knuckle tactics by Hindus.

[2banana]

But it is not like the muslims ever did this kind of things for the last 1400 years...

[Brian Allen]

<< Hmm..., bare knuckle tactics by Hindus. >>

Yair.

Just as well they're a peaceful lot, eh?

Well .......

...... except for [And/or because of?] these and the other few score million preemtive murders of the past couple hundred years of so!

[But I have it on good advice that them thar ['Holy Mother'] cows like'em quite a bit!]

[Owl558]

Poor Muslims, they are the most oppressed people on the planet. I'm sure that new UN commission looking into prejudice against muslims will document this throughly.

[/sarcasm off]

[Arjun]

oh yea.. its not like the muslim community actually HAS extremists.. thats just hindu imagination running wild.

[The Incredible One]

The Islamic rule of India killed 100 million hindus. I am sure they dont count...

And by the way these "atoricities against peace loving muslims" started after a train carrying hindus - including women and children was set on fire. the muslims in india claimed that these people killed themselves!!!

Nice to see the mullahs getting a taste of their own medicine

[econ_grad]

How much are you willing to bet on that 100 million number?

[The Incredible One]

Why?? Is it 99 million. /sarcasm Go on give me "your number".

[econ_grad]

I doubt if there were 100 million people in all of India at the time of Muslim rule.

[econ_grad]

No more than the number of political prisoners in Tihar jail.

[The Incredible One]

hmm sorry to disappoint you..but timur lame killed 100,000 hindus in a single day.

there is no way that they you compare the numbers from this genocide to tihar jail prisoners unless you count hindus as a fraction of muslims. isnt that what islam preaches...

[econ_grad]

So he must have killed a thousand days in a row. And how do you know they were all Hindus that he was killing. He was probably killing just as many Muslims because he was up against the later Delhi sultanate ruled by fellow Muslims.

[SauronOfMordor]

So he must have killed a thousand days in a row.

The Muslims first invaded India a little over a thousand years ago, and have been fighting and oppressing people there ever since. That's enough time for plenty of killing. Go google some history

[The Incredible One]

you are confusing tamur lame with nader shah. nope the slammies made sure they were killing kafirs. incidentally the so called tolerant king akber killed 30,000 hindus after capturing a fort / kingdom in northern india.

lol..you seem to be convinced that slammies can do no harm and are peace loving souls. sorry dude..you have history - medieval and recent, working against you.

slammies are responsible for murders in chechanaya, israel, kashmir and europe.

[econ_grad]

Not true. Timur invaded India during the reign of the Delhi sultanate. It may have been during the later sultanate or even the Khiljis, but when India was ruled by the slammies. Don't have to teach me about Muslims, I have lived in the Islamic world for a while. I have also lived in majority Hindu states in India. The difference is not that big, especially among the super elites or the super poor.

[CarrotAndStick]

Really? Because it is a funny coincidence almost all members of the underworld in Bombay are Muslim.

[The Incredible One]

I have also lived in majority Hindu states in India. The difference is not that big

that is islamic propaganda. so were you discriminated against in these hindu states? in what way did you have lesser rights as a muslim. when replying - keep in mind that india has an islamic president. (i am guessing that you are a muslim/khalistani given your anti-india / anti-hindu postings and your silence on islamic terrorism). i know that you claim to be an anglo saxon protestant).

since you claim to know a lot about history (the koranic version atleast) pl tell us an islamic country where a non-muslim can aspire to be the president / ruler of that country.

and by the way here are some snippets on the murder of hindus by the islamic terrorist pigs.

Encyclopaedia Britannica again mentions that Mughal emperor Akbar 'ordered the massacre of about 30,000 captured Rajput Hindus on February 24, 1568 AD, after the battle for Chitod, a number confirmed by Abul Fazl, Akbar's court historian.

Afghan historian Khondamir records that during one of the many repeated invasions on the city of Herat in western Afghanistan, which used to be part of the Hindu Shahiya kingdoms '1,500,000 residents perished.'

Or probably you prefer todays statistics

Take a look at the figures of the Hindu population of India's Muslims neighbours: in 1941, in what would become Pakistan, there were approximately 25 per cent Hindus and 30 per cent in what would later become Bangladesh; in 1948, only 17 per cent in Pakistan and 25 per cent in Bangladesh; in 1991, a bare 1.5 per cent remained in Pakistan and less than 10 per cent in Bangladesh.

http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/apr/30franc.htm

Sorry dude but slammies are murderous thugs. show me hindus who have hijacked planes and flown into buildings while a majority of their fellow brethren cheered them on. islam is NOTORIOUSLY UNIQUE for murder and mayhem.

[little jeremiah]

Muslims started invading India in roughly 700 AD, and maintain some measure of control until roughly 1600 (very roughly). So they had over 1000 years to rape, loot, muder, enslave, destroy, and so on. And they didn't mismanage their opportunities. They were brutal, murderous, and stole not only treasure, but knowledge - for instance, "Arabic" numerals are from Sanskrit. "Arabesque" architecture is from India, as is Unani medicine (from Ayurveda) and so on.

Muslims would slaughter entire villages, saving only artisans and skilled craftsmen, who would then be enslaved and sent to other Arab countries to design, build and manufacture all manner of goods.

It's a part of history than many know little about.

And then there's the forced conversions....

[stripes1776]

Muslims would slaughter entire villages..It's a part of history than many know little about.

Yes, and with that rewrite and distortion of history called multiculturalism, academia will do its best to make sure that many continue to know little about it.