Gujarat 2002

GUJARAT 2002 Untold and Re-told Stories of the Hindutva Lab Critical and cruel as the communal dimension was to the tragedy of Gujarat, what was at stake, additionally, was respect for the rights of all Indians - irrespective of community - that are guaranteed by the Constitution. That Constitution assures the Fundamental Rights of all who dwell in this country, on a non-discriminatory basis, regardless of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. Justice J.S. Verma Chairperson, NHRC CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DEDICATION INTRODUCTION John Chathanatt FOREWORD Dr. Ambrose Pinto INTRODUCING THE BOOK John Dayal PART I: ARTICLES WITNESS TO A POGROM Seema Mustafa GANDHI'S GUJARAT? John Dayal INTERNATIONAL LAW REMEDIES M. P. Raju RSS: MARKETING FASCISM AS HINDUTVA Shamsul Islam PART II: INVESTIGATION REPORTS ORDER ON HOLDING OF GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE GUJARAT LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Election Commission of India INTERIM REPORT, INTERIM ORDER AND FINAL REPORT ON GUJARAT National Human Rights Commission GUJARAT CARNAGE 2002: A REPORT TO THE NATION By an Independent Fact Finding Mission ACKNOWLEDGEMENT DEDICATION INTRODUCTION John Chathanatt FOREWORD Dr. Ambrose Pinto, S.J. INTRODUCING THE BOOK John Dayal PART I: ARTICLES WITNESS TO A POGROM Seema Mustafa GANDHI'S GUJARAT? John Dayal INTERNATIONAL LAW REMEDIES M. P. Raju RSS: MARKETING FASCISM AS HINDUTVA Shamsul Islam PART II: INVESTIGATION REPORTS ORDER ON HOLDING OF GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE GUJARAT LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Election Commission of India INTERIM REPORT, INTERIM ORDER AND FINAL REPORT ON GUJARAT National Human Rights Commission GUJARAT CARNAGE 2002: A REPORT TO THE NATION By an Independent Fact Finding Mission HOW HAS THE GUJARAT MASSACRE AFFECTED MINORITY WOMEN? - THE SURVIVORS SPEAK 281 Fact-Finding by a Women's Panel HUMAN RIGHTS V/ATCH REPORT 345 COMMUNALISM COMBAT REPORT: Genocide-Gujarat 2002 425 REPORT OFTHE ALL INDIA DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (A1DWA) ' 682 RIGHTS AND WRONGS: EDITORS GUILD FACT FINDING MISSION REPORT 705 By Aakar'Patel, Dileep Padgaonkar & B.G. Verghese HINDU JAGO CHRISTIBHAGO! 772 Report of the Citizen's Commission on Persecution of Christians in Gujarat 1998-1999 1998 NISH ANT REPORT 840 A report from the religious cleansing laboratory of the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) JUSTICE MADON REPORT ON BHIWAND1 RIOTS 1974 895 HXIBITS 996 PART III: SELECT DOCUMENTS & READINGS (1) People of India: An eye opening study (2) The constitutional right to religious freedom (3) Prime Minister's 15 point programme for minorities in May 1983 (4) A.B. Vajpayee in his own words: "The Sangh is my Soul" (5) Hindutva's Foreign Tie-ups in the 1930s 1028 (6) The many children of the Sangh Parivar 1058 (7) V.H.P. in brief: The Sangh's right fist 1059 (8) V.H.P.'s ties with the tigers ? 1062 (9) Vishwa Hindu Parishad 1065 (10) Hindu Students' Council 1072 (11) R.S.S, boss K. Sudarshan said on the'Epic War' 1075 (12) The Hindu right wing mobilised styles 1078 (13) Pogrom funders: Deceit of the rights 1085 (14) The Prohibition on Religious Conversion Bill 1092