A plot from the devil's Lair, Outlook India, Manu Joseph, 03 June 02
A late-evening meeting convened by Modi on Feb 27 ensured mobs a free hand the next day
Excerpts:
'Information with Outlook shows that a senior minister from his own cabinet has blown the whistle on Modi. Last week, the minister deposed before the Concerned Citizens Tribunal headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Krishna Iyer'...
'The minister told the tribunal that in the two-hour meeting, Modi made it clear there would be justice for Godhra the next day, during the VHP-called bandh. He ordered that the police should not come in the way of "the Hindu backlash". At one point in this briefing, according to the minister's statement to the tribunal, DGP Chakravarthy vehemently protested. But he was harshly told by Modi to shut up and obey. Commissioner Pande, says the minister, would later show remorse in private but at that meeting didn't have the guts to object.'... Read the complete story [A plot from the devil's Lair]
Police ex-chief blames VHP, Bajrang Dal for riots, rediff.com, Sheela Bhatt, 01 June 02
'Bureaucratic circles in Gandhinagar have been stunned by a letter written by P C Pande, Ahmedabad's former commissioner of police, blaming the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal for the riots in Gujarat's premier city'.... Read the complete story [Police ex-chief blames VHP, Bajrang Dal for riots]
The police were directly implicated in nearly all the attacks against Muslims that have been documented in the 75-page report by New York-based Human Rights Watch. (See "We Have No Orders to Save You," Human Rights Watch, April 2002, Vol. 14, No. 3 (c) pp. 4.)
The People�s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) also released a report on the Gujarat violence on Saturday which said that the ��whole intent of the pogrom (in Gujarat) has been to reduce Muslims to second class citizens in their own country��... Read the complete story [Riots' plan scripted much earlier: PUDR]
Action Requested
1. The Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has been implicated in the most heinous crimes against humanity and the prime minister of India has done nothing so far to try this criminal in court or at least remove him from office. As a result of the massacres more than 2000 innocent civilians have been killed and more than 100,000 have been rendered homeless and are living as refugees in their own country. Please contact the following organizations and urge them to file a lawsuit against Narendra Modi in the international court of justice for carrying out ethnic cleansing in the state of Gujarat, India.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mary Robinson
Contact Electronically
Fax: (41 22) 917 90 11
Support Services Branch,
OHCHR-UNOG, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
United States Office of Human Rights and Democracy
Margot Sullivan
Phone: 202-647-0407
Fax: 202 647-9519
Amnesty International
USA
E-mail: [email protected]
Ph: 212 807 8400
Fax: 212 463 9193\1
322 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10001
INDIA
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +91 11 685 4763
G13 First floor, Hauz Khas Main Market, New Delhi 110 016
Human Rights Watch
E-mail: [email protected]
Ph: 415 362 3250
Fax: 415 362 3255
312 Sutter Street, Suite 407
San Francisco CA 94108
2. The VHP and BD are fascist organizations, following the fascist type of militancy, thought control, espousing the cause of one party, one culture and one nation. Their religious extremism leads them to pursue the politics of hatred, striking terror in the minds of minorities and secular Hindus. Their role in the orchestrated massacres of innocent civilians has been established right from the beginning. Please Contact your local congressmen/congresswomen and senators and urge them to declare the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (registered as World Hindu Council in the USA) as a terrorist organization. In addition please contact the following departments also
US Department of Justice
Attorney General, John Ashcroft
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 202 353 1555
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Alice S. Fisher
(202) 514-2601
Terrorism and Violent Crime Section
Chief: James S. Reynolds
(202) 514-0849
US Department of treasury
Secretary of the treasury, Paul H. O'Neill
Director, Council of economic advisors, Glenn Hubbard
Director, National economic council, Lawrence Lindsey
Ph: (202) 622 1260
Fax: (202) 622 6415
Office of Public Correspondence
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
US Department of State
Asst. Secretary, Bureau of South Asian Affairs, Christina Rocca
Phone: (202) 647-2141/736-4325
Fax: (202) 736-4333