Archive for May, 2008
What the government had to face
Posted on May 25, 2008 - Filed Under 02- Role of the Government in controlling violence
The Gujarat government had to face the most difficult situation in trying to control the post-Godhra riots. That’s because Gujarat is an extremely communally sensitive state and often even minor things like kite flying and cricket matches are enough to cause riots.
Gujarat government handled the riots extremely efficiently. The steps [...]
Concocted Lies And Myths By The Media
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
By now we have seen much of the reality of the post-Godhra riots. The entire media continues to concoct white lies on this subject. In this chapter, let us see some of the malicious lies circulated by the media, NDTV in particular, and company.
Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots
Myth 2: Muslims [...]
Myth 1: 2,000 Muslims were killed in the Gujarat riots
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: As per figures given by the Union Minister of State for Home Shriprakash Jaiswal, who belongs to the Congress Party, in Parliament on 11 May 2005, 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed in the riots, 2548 people were injured and 223 people were missing. The report placed the number of riot-affected widows at [...]
Read More..>>Myth 2: Muslims were ‘butchered’ in Gujarat
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: As we have seen in a couple of earlier chapters, Muslims were equally on the offensive, at least after the first three days. Muslims killed Hindus brutally in Himmatnagar, Danilimda, and Sindhi Market and other areas of Ahmedabad.
The Hindu reported that as early as 1st March 2002 itself, Muslims started violence in [...]
Read More..>>Myth 3: Whole of Gujarat was burning
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Out of the state’s 18,600 villages, 240 municipal towns, and 25 district headquarters, only 60 places saw riots. If one includes the two big cities of Ahmedabad and Vadodara, by the wildest stretch of imagination, only 2 % of the state can be assumed to have been burning. Only 40 out of the state’s [...]
Read More..>>Myth 4: The Gujarat police turned a blind eye to the rioting
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Even though the situation was terrible, the police performed its work extremely efficiently. The police force was woefully insufficient. Uday Mahurkar reports for India Today (18 March 2002):
“Ahmedabad has a police force of 6,000, including 1,500 armed personnel. In addition, the entire state has just four companies (530 jawans) of the Rapid Action Force [...]
Myth 5: Gujarat police was anti-Muslim
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Far from it, the police was slow to act on Muslim fanatics for fear of being called ‘anti-Muslim’ by the media. Out of the total killed in police firing in Gujarat, 60 % were Hindus and 40 % were Muslims. Muslims greeted the police, and also the army, with bullets and turned off the [...]
Read More..>>Myth 6: Gujarat riots were the ‘worst ever massacre’ in India
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Gujarat riots of 2002 AD were absolutely nothing as compared to Gujarat’s past riots of 1969 and 1985 AD. They were still nothing as compared to Gujarat’s riots of 1980, 1982, 1990, and 1992. And they were again nothing as compared to pre-independence riots of the 1940’s in Ahmedabad when the Hindu community took [...]
Read More..>>Myth 7: Only Muslims were rendered homeless and suffered economically
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: As early as 5 March 2002, out of the 98 relief/ refugee camps set up in the state, 85 were for the Muslims and 13 were for the Hindus. As on 17 March 2002, as per the report of a newspaper as anti-BJP as The Times of India, 10,000 Hindus were rendered homeless in [...]
Read More..>>Myth 8: The Gujarat government was involved in the riots
Posted on May 22, 2008 - Filed Under 12-Concocted Lies and Myths by the media
Fact: Gujarat government of the BJP, headed by Narendra Modi was blind to the mushrooming of madrasas in the state. Not only that, the previous government headed by Keshubhai Patel too was equally blind to the same. From India Today we know that it was because of fear of harming the BJP’s newly discovered ‘secular’ [...]