Posted by: mayakannadi | April 30, 2007

True Secularist

Sanket Vyas writes

Parzania is an unflinching account of the communal violence that erupted in Ahmedabad (my birth city) after the Godhra incident in 2002. It tells the true story of a Parsi family that lost their son on that fateful day when their livelihood was destroyed by right wing Hindu mobs in what can only be described as planned genocide. It shows how the government and the police (later verified by multiple eyewitness reports and The International Human Rights Commission) stood by while their citizens were looted, raped and murdered.

Nearly a thousand Gujarati Muslims lost their lives that day and about 100,000 were rendered homeless.

So Sanket, how did some 58 Hindus, including 26 women and 12 children die in Godhra? According to various reports, one third of the people who died in Gujarat were Hindus and why is it hard for you to mention who killed them? Or do you mention only the numerically higher community?


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