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| Indian court convicts 12 in Gujarat riots case |
| 2008-01-19 |
| A court convicted 12 Hindu men on Friday in connection with the gang rape of a pregnant Muslim woman and the murder of her family in a trial seen as key to winning justice for victims of one of IndiaÂ’s worst religious riots. Human rights groups say about 2,500 people, most of them Muslims, were hacked, beaten or burned to death in Gujarat after a suspected Muslim mob burnt alive 59 Hindu activists and pilgrims inside a train in February 2002. Among the closely watched Gujarat riot trials was the Bilkis Bano case viewed as testing whether justice can be delivered to hundreds of other Muslim women sexually assaulted during the riots. Bano, her lawyers say, was three months pregnant in early March 2002 when she was gang-raped and 12 of her family members, including her three-year-old daughter, were burned to death by a mob as they fled their village in Gujarat. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 In the entire period of riots total Hindu casualties were 80 shot dead, and 207 wounded by police bullets alone. The Muslim counter attack which commenced from 1st March 2002 was no less ferocious. In the first three days alone, out of a total of 611 deaths, 101 were caused by police firing. Of these, 61 were Hindus and 40 were Muslims. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-01-19 06:27 |
| #1 In answer to the Parliament questions, the UPA Home Minister gave the figures of casualties during Gujarat riots. There were Muslims killed 790, Hindus killed 254, wounded 2500 in all missing 223. |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-01-19 06:22 |