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Tito Dutta (contact) 21:26, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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Keep a close eye on the article about Godhra Train Massacre and esp. User Soham321; he is on a deleting spree. You're better suited to handle inexperienced, seemingly disruptive editors who don't like listening to others. I am banking on you. Thank you. Mr T 07:20, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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2002 Gujarat violence

Articles by Christopher Jaffrelot describe the riots and the violence. So does Edward Luce's 2010 book "In spite of The Gods", from which i will give you some tidbits about the violence and Modis alleged role. Hundreds of eye witness account describe police complicity in the violence. During the riots for example Modi came on television to say about the Godhra massacre that "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" - which many commentators including Luce sees as giving the green light to the subsequent violence against Muslims. Hundreds of people including many women and children were dowsed in kerosene and burned by the mobs, women first raped. Perhaps a reason that the police have not taken testimonies from any of those witnesses and that the testimonies against Modi and many others have not been accepted in court. The rioters seemed to have access to electoral registers that register religion of individuals, since they singled out Muslim homes with extreme precision. They were even able to pinpoint Muslim owned strores that had used a Hindu businesspartner and Hindu storefront to avoid discrimination.(Luce 2010:159). IN the 2002 elections according to Luce (2010:172) "open hatred ahgainst muslims was the sole theme". 200 Muslims are detained under the terror laws for participating in the Godhra train burning. Not a single Hindu has been arrested under those laws for the Gujarat riots. 200,000 Muslims were made homeless by the riots, and went on to live in refugee camps - Modi called those camps "child manufactoring factories", playing on the streotype of Muslims having large familys (Luce 2010 246). The Supreme Court Investigative Team has been strongly criticized by academics like Jaffrelot for rejecting testimony of Muslims. In 2007 an investigative journalists published recordings of Hindu activists boasting of their own acts during the riots, and praising Modi for helping them and even for personally hiding some of them when they were sought by the police. The tapes have not been admitted as evidence by the SIT Investigation. The same individuals have even repeated the claims on record, but have not been accepted as evidence. During the violence the leader of the RSS Modis organization stated that "Let the Muslims understand that their safety lies with the goodwill of the majority". (Luce 2010:160-1). As for the tense relation between Sonia Gandhi of the Congress Party and Modi (who have called eachother "merchant of death" and "halfbred jersey cow" and "Italian bitch" respectively) is also interesting. After the violence Gandhi gave what is considered by many her best speech, in which she accused bthe BJP ministers of turning Gujarat into the land of Godse not of Gandhi. Nathuram Godse was a member of the RSS (Modi's hindu nationalist organization) who killed Mahatma Gandhi. This is just one book about the topic of communalist violence in Gujarat which I happen to have on my shelf. There are many others, and they tell very similar stories. The stories you will hear from most of the editors on the talk page is from blogs, opinion pieces in Indian news sources (which are apparently considered reliable for positive information but not negative in a crude misinterpretation of BLP policy (this article for example is by the BJP minister and lawyer who defended the assassins of both Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, hardly an unbiased observer)) and from BJP/RSS websites like this, you will not find it in peer-reviewed journals published outside of India, and you will not find it in respectable news sources. A month ago I also hadnt heard of Modi, but once I started reading the sources and found out that basically the pages on Indian politics are run by the Indian equivalent of holocaust deniers I could not let the article alone anymore.68.9.182.96 (talk) 21:45, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Here are some links to more sources. This source describes Modis television appearances during the riots, arguing that they were used byt the BJP for political purposes rather than for pacifying the rioters (This article makes a similar point ). This article argues that Modi's goverment of Gujarat is autocratic and curbs free speech of academics. This article analyses the 2007 BJP victory in Gujarat and the "moditva" phenomenon (an populist form of Hindu Nationalism centered around Modi and anti-Muslim sentiment combined with liberal economic policies) also mentioned in several other sources. This peer reviewed chapter in this book states outright that "The controversy around Modi arises from his personal and administrative support for the systematic killing of well over 2000 Muslims between March and May 2002, the investigation of which has been largely thwarted but which is basically beyond doubt." This article calls the violence a pogrom (as do several of the other sources I have presented) and analyses how it was rationalised and motivated by the Hindutva ideology that sees Hindus as selfsacrificing victims. There are soooo many academic sources that treat this topic and Modi, yet the article relies on news paper pieces and cherry picks only irrelevant details about Modi and leaves out all of the stuff that actually makes him a signigicant character in India and beyond.68.9.182.96 (talk) 22:05, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

I do not want to get involved in this discussion but Maunus let me tell you something more, it would be great if you do some more research, it was wrongly reported in the media that Modi quoted newton's third law of motion, I think it was reported in Times of India that modi quoted those words in an interview on Zee News, when SIT asked Zee News to give that video they were unable to provide one, later on it was found that Modi said that "There is some action taking place, let us not show some reaction. We neither want action nor reaction". A lot many Hindus were taken into preventive custody during the riots,many more killed in police firing. Show me one reference where Modi called Sonia an italian bitch apart from Luce's book as it is very apparent that it is filled with inaccuracies, there were many inquiries regarding the role of RSS in Gandhi's murder and none of them found any involvement of RSS. Lastly Gujarat has been home to many communal violence in past and if you look at any other violence in whole of India the conviction rate in 2002 cases is much higher. I am not providing you with any sources here as I have no intreset in having any kind of discussion which will not be helpful in developing our articles. Thanks -sarvajna (talk) 07:50, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Luce interviewed Modi and Gandhi several times, he is one of the worlds most respected journalists specializing in India, the book is published on a respected press. Maybe you should produce some sources that those statements are inaccurate instead of just claiming it like Yogesh always does when a source says something he doesnøt like. Then he usually finds some RSS/BJP blog or opinion column that supports his view and tries to make it seem as if he has actually supported his claim. If you dont wish to get involved in a discussion you should stay the fuck out of it, and otherwise you should bring some sources. It is complete disrespect for Misplaced Pages and for your fellow editors to respond to an array of more than ten sources with a flat contradiction. You should be blocked for your disruptive pov pushing, if[REDACTED] had any sense. But apparently it doesnt anymore.68.9.182.96 (talk) 12:23, 24 May 2013 (UTC)