The Holocaust of Muslims in Gujarat India

[maroc88]

This Hindu "Ahlam_2005" with the support of moderators like VP has been putting anti Islamic, anti Arabs posts on morocco.com

Lets see him reply to some news about India:

Gujarat Muslim women 'rape victims'
Rioters in Ahmedabad
Hindu rioters singled out Muslim shops and businesses

By Jyotsna Singh
BBC correspondent in Delhi
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Muslim women were subjected to "unimaginable inhuman and barbaric" sexual violence during recent communal riots in the west Indian state of Gujarat, according to a woman's panel that has visited the state. Many women suffered the worst forms of sexual violence, including gang-rape, says their report, "How has the Gujarat massacre affected minority women. The survivors speak", released on Tuesday.

The official death toll in last month's riots has now risen to 778, although welfare groups put the figure at about 2000.

'Complicity'

Most of the rape victims were burnt alive, Tuesday's report says.

Homeless Muslim woman
Many Muslim women were also left homeless


The team - one of the first to visit Gujarat in the aftermath of the riots - says it found evidence of police complicity in perpetrating crime against women. They allege that the police refused to file complaints by the victims. The team also demanded the announcement of a special compensation package. The panel also demanded that a special tribunal be set up to ensure justice for victims. The report also said there was no evidence of any support from the state authorities in Gujarat to help women who had suffered attack.


Ayodhya special report

[maroc88]

This article below is written by an Indian woman!

http://www.sacw.net/DC/CommunalismCo...e08032005.html

On Muslim Women in Gujarat

by Mukul Dube

The violence against Muslims which began in Gujarat on February 28,
2002, the day after the Godhra incident, has been called one-sided
and state-sponsored and has been likened to a pogrom. Neither gender
was spared, nor any age group. One form of violence, though, could be
directed only against women and girls. Rape often took the form of
gang rape and was followed by mutilation and finally by the
destruction of evidence through the burning of the victims. But some
victims of rape were left alive, and for an excellent reason.

[maroc88]

From Amnesty International:

Gujarat Authorities Fail Muslim Women


Bilqis Yaqoob Rasool fled Randhikpur village in Gujarat, India, when it was attacked by right-wing Hindus on 28 February 2002. The attackers burned the mosque, and houses and crops belonging to Muslims in the village. They caught up with Bilqis and her family three days later. Shouting “kill them” and “cut them up”, they gang-raped Bilqis, her mother, sisters, aunt and cousins in front of their family. Fourteen of her relatives were then killed. Bilqis saw an attacker kill her three-year-old daughter with a rock. She fell unconscious and was left for dead.

What happened to Bilqis is typical of what happened to hundreds of other Muslim women in Gujarat in 2002. Large-scale violence against the Muslim minority erupted in the state after 59 passengers, mostly Hindu activists, died in a fire on the Sabarmati Express train in Gujarat on 27 February. Officials claimed that it was part of a planned attack by local Muslims on Hindus. Official figures say 762 died in the ensuing violence, but human rights groups estimate that over 2,000, mostly Muslims, were killed in the following weeks.
Muslim men and women were attacked in the violence, but women were particularly targeted because of their gender. Girls and women were reportedly dragged naked before their families and thousands of attackers. They were then raped, often gang-raped, beaten, had rods violently pushed into their vaginas, had breasts cut off and wombs slashed open by swords. Many of them were then cut into pieces or burned to death. The victims included young girls and old women, pregnant women and babies.

To date, no one has been brought to justice for the rape and killing of women in Gujarat in 2002. The Supreme Court of India ordered that the case against those accused of raping and killing Bilqis’ family be investigated by a central police agency which found that Gujarat police had sided with the offenders and closed the case, claiming that the culprits could not be found. The case is now being heard outside Gujarat.

Failure to prosecute the perpetrators of such grave abuses sends the message to women of the minority community that the state does not take their protection seriously. Amnesty International (AI) believes that dozens of women who suffered sexual violence in Gujarat in 2002 have not filed complaints because of the attitude of the Gujarati authorities and the shame which they feel about the sexual violence they experienced.

The National Human Rights Commission and the Supreme Court have provided some relief in selected cases but the majority of Muslim women have been failed by the criminal justice system in Gujarat. Some survivors, supported by human rights activists, have shown enormous courage in pursuing their cases in the face of state indifference to its human rights obligations.

In November, AI is publishing a report on the failure of the authorities in Gujarat to protect women in the 2002 violence.

[maroc88]

Frpm Asia Times:

http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/DD19Df04.html

Muslim women bore the brunt of Hindus' Gujarat rampage By Ranjit Devraj

NEW DELHI - Sheba George broke down and had to be comforted by other members of a Women's Panel when it presented its report on Wednesday on the sexual brutalization of women, the highlight of a pogrom unleashed on Muslims in western Gujarat state to avenge the February firebombing of a train carrying Hindu devotees.

"We do want to live in Gujarat and be integrated with society in the state but after what happened I don't know," said Sheba, a Muslim married to a Christian. Both religious-minority groups have been systematically persecuted by fanatical Hindu organizations ever since the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in the state four years ago. "After what we heard and saw in Gujarat we won't be able to lead the same lives anymore," said Syeda Hameed, a former member of the National Commission for Women (NCW) and currently with the Muslim Women's Forum.

The report that she and other members of the Women's Panel presented consists, for the most part, of powerful testimonies by survivors of what is seen as the systematic rape of Muslim women as they fled from their burning homes in the days after the February 27 firebombing.

"Most of the rape victims were simply set on fire to destroy the evidence," said Farah Naqvi, who added that Gujarat events closely resembled the ethnic cleansing carried out against Muslims in Bosnia in terms of the murder of men and the rape of their women. "The mob started chasing us with burning tires after we were forced to leave Gangotri society [a housing colony]. We saw them strip 16-year-old Mehrunissa. They were stripping themselves and beckoning to the girls. Then they raped them right there on the road. We saw a girl's vagina being slit open. Then they [the bodies] were burned," Kulsum Bibi told the panel.

Bibi is one of nearly 10,000 refugees in the Shah-e-Alam camp in the textile city of Ahmedabad, which was visited by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee more than a month after the pogrom. Across Gujarat today, there are more than 100,000 refugees living in camps, many of them former businessmen and professionals and their families who survived the killings and rape and now have nowhere to return to because their homes have been pillaged and burned down. "Even if their homes are restored, they can no longer live beside neighbors who had turned on them and done unspeakable things to their girls and women," said Hameed.

Women testified to feeling betrayal at the hands of neighbors, friends and people they had lived, worked with and even celebrated festivals with for years - but who thought nothing of joining fanatical mobs that roamed about looking for Muslims and their homes. Sheba George, who works with the voluntary organization Sahrwaru, said many women arrived at the Shah-e-Alam camp stark naked and badly injured from gang rape and sexual abuse. Some, including one girl who had to have wooden splinters removed from her genitals, were still too traumatized to speak.

But many recognized and named their tormentors. Bilkees, who was left for dead, named those who killed members of her family and those who raped her in a first information report (FIR), which was recorded at a police station only on the insistence of the female district magistrate of Dahod, Jayanti Ravi. But in the vast majority of cases, a blatantly partisan police refused to record complaints of rape on the grounds of lack of evidence and whenever they did, ascribed blame to nameless groups of people or mobs, said the members of the panel.

Said Syeda Hameed of the Muslim Women's Forum: "At the best of times, victims of sexual violence do not have the confidence to approach the police, let alone walk the long path to evidence gathering and getting justice."

Part of the reason the panel recorded the testimonies of rape survivors in Gujarat was so that justice can be secured for them and because many women in the camps are still willing to testify given the assurance that justice would be done, she said. But justice is a long way off in a state whose Chief Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly said the violence was a natural reaction to the February 27 firebombing of a train at Godhra station, which resulted in the deaths of 59 people returning from the temple town of Ayodhya in northern Uttar Pradesh state.

Modi and the BJP are now keen on calling quick mid-term polls in Gujarat, confident of having roused majority Hindu sentiment over the Godhra incident. They are also confident of having defied reports by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), a statutory body, laying blame on the administration for "lack of intelligence, literal and figurative" in allowing a situation to develop.

The charred bodies of the victims were deliberately put on public display at the Ahmedabad railway station by the state administration. Fundamentalist publications such as Sandesh (Advice) were allowed to print fictitious stories of Hindu women being abducted and carried away into mosques to be raped. Witnesses told the women's panel and other fact-finding teams that the mobs that brutalized the Muslim women carried not only swords, but also copies of the Sandesh edition with the story of Hindu women having been raped and with the inflammatory banner headline Khoon ka Badla Khoon (Blood for Blood).

"In many ways women have been the central characters in the Gujarat carnage and their bodies the battleground - the provocative lies published by the Sandesh newspaper used images of brutalized women's bodies as a weapon in ways deliberately designed to provoke real violence against women from the Muslim community," said Farah Naqvi.

The report of the Women's Panel corroborated the NHRC report, an independent Citizens' Report, a report by the Minorities Commission, and another by the All-India Democratic Women's Association, an affiliate of the Communist part of India (Marxist). All spoke of the targeting of Muslim women in the Gujarat violence.

The Supreme Court has ordered a separate investigation.

One immediate consequence of the violence in Gujarat is the creation of a large number of female-headed households because of the killing of male members, and of destitute single women, including widows.

[voltaires_priest]

Been "making anti-Arab postings with my support", has he? This is the first I've heard of it.

All I've seen him do is disagree with other posters about points of Islamic religion. You may or may not think he's right - and as you can tell most people disagree with him. But being in a minority on a point of religious doctrine is not "biased" or "racist", or whatever you seem to think.

As I said in the other thread, perhaps if (rather than behaving like a baby throwing a rattle out of a pram) you were to point out some of these anti-Arab postings, I might be able to act upon them.

It would certainly be more effective then throwing a puerile temper tantrum and (bizarrely) posting a load of articles from the Indian press. What, in your mind you think this is some kind of "really cunning revenge on the Hindu Kaffir"?

To be honest, I don't know what the guy even thinks about these articles; probably nothing much as by his own testimony he's not a Hindu.

However, if you really think I'm part of some dastardly Hindu plot to take over the board, then (as ever) it's complaints on a postcard to moderators@virtualcountries.com



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[Shrantellatessa]

So let's wait and see what his reaction to these horrors's gonna be then we can make a final judgement on this mysterious person!

[micael]

I think we already know what his game is...