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Modi cleared of complicity in deadly communal riots
[Dhaka Tribune] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not complicit in deadly religious riots that broke out in 2002 in one of the bloodiest episodes in independent India, according to a judge-led commission report released Wednesday.Modi was the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... when nearly 1,000 people -- the majority of them Moslems - were killed in riots triggered by a fire on a train which killed 59 Hindu activists. The riots have long dogged Modi, who was accused by human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... groups of turning a blind eye to the violence. The Nanavati Commission found that the riots were spontaneous, sparked by the train burning deaths, rather than pre-planned attacks. "There is no evidence to show that these attacks were either inspired or instigated or abated by any minister of the state," the Nanavati Commission said in its nine-volume report of more than 2,500 pages. The release of the report came amid protests in northeastern India over a citizenship bill that proposes excluding Moslem refugees from neighbouring Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistain. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), re-elected in a landslide in May after coming to power in 2014, has long been accused of following a "Hindutva" agenda favouring officially secular India's majority Hindus. In August Modi's administration rescinded the partial autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir .jpg "Kashmir") ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , India's only Moslem-majority state, in what his government said was aimed at boosting the local economy and rooting out corruption. The report - which included 44,445 affidavits from witnesses and 488 government officials -- was tabled in the Gujarat state assembly on Wednesday, five years after it was submitted to the government following a 12-year probe. While the commission's terms of reference did not require the government to make the findings public, it said in September the report would be released after a petition for its publication was filed in the High Court. Related: Narendra Modi: 2019-12-09 Modi Faces Criticism for Excluding Muslims From Sanctuary Offer Narendra Modi: 2019-12-08 Delhi factory fire: More than 35 dead in India blaze Narendra Modi: 2019-12-03 India : Shift from Citizens' Rights, to Duties. People whine as they're told they have duties. Related: Gujarat: 2019-12-09 Modi Faces Criticism for Excluding Muslims From Sanctuary Offer Gujarat: 2019-10-26 Indian man arrested after eating sloth bear genitalia to boost sex drive: police Gujarat: 2019-09-25 High Alert In India As JeM Cells Feared Active | Balakot Camp Reopens For Business Related: Bharatiya Janata Party: 2019-09-14 Kashmir requires immediate intervention of UN, world powers: PM Imran Bharatiya Janata Party: 2019-09-05 Srinagar mayor placed under house arrest following comments on occupied Kashmir Bharatiya Janata Party: 2019-08-15 Indian court acquits 6 of killing Muslim dairy farmer in cow vigilante case Posted by: Fred 2019-12-12 |
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