"...The specific targeting of women, as part of a conscious strategy to terrorise the Muslim population of Gujarat, also particularly c ncerned the panellists. According to Rhonda, sexual violence played a fundamental role and was used “as an engine of the mobilisation of hatred and destruction.” The scale and brutality of the sexual violence unleashed upon women was new, or felt as if it was new, to the panellists who could not have been prepared for the testimonies they heard even though they were aware of the centrality of this method in the violence of 2002..."
"A report details the means adopted by the United States-based India Development and Relief Fund to collect funds from U.S. corporates and channel them to Hindu fundamentalist organisations. Affiliates of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) have been receiving millions of dollars from corporates in the United States to instigate communal violence and propagate the Hindutva ideology in Gujarat and other parts of the country. This was exposed by the Campaign to Stop Funding Hate (SFH), a group of professionals, students, workers, artists and intellectuals.
"The Concerned Citizens Tribunal – Gujarat 2002, was conceived as a response to the carnage that rocked the state of Gujarat following the Godhra tragedy on February 27, 2002. The eight-member Tribunal was constituted in consultation with a large number of groups from within Gujarat and the rest of the country... The Tribunal collected 2,094 oral and written testimonies, both individual and collective, from victim-survivors and also independent human rights groups, women’s groups, NGOs and academics.
"...'I said I don't have his janam patri, I will have to ask Rajiv Gandhi. Then the journalists said, ''Do they meet in church?''. I replied, ''Maybe they do.'''
"On September 9, Narendra Modi's Gujarat Gaurav Yatra rolled into Becharaji, where he delivered his by now infamous Hum paanch, hamare pachees speech -- that the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) wanted a text of for its apparently inflammatory content.The speech that the Gujarat Government claimed it had been unable to trace a copy of.
"For too long there has been a reluctance to discuss the issue of communalism in British Asian communities. Organised religious groups can be powerful forces and their critics are either accused of ‘washing dirty linen in public’ or denounced for a supposed disloyalty. When those who have spoken out have been women, the denunciations have been even more severe. Too often, ‘fundamentalism’ has been a charge levelled only at other sections of the Asian community, while silence has reigned on fundamentalism in the name of one’s own faith.
"What exactly happened on the night of February 27 in chief minister Narendra Modi's bungalow in Gandhinagar? All along there have been rumours of a late-evening meeting called by Modi on the day of the Godhra carnage in which he instructed senior police officials to allow "people to vent their frustration" over the torching of two coaches of the Sabarmati Express during the VHP bandh the following day.
"State officials of Gujarat, India were directly involved in the killings of hundreds of Muslims since February 27 and are now engineering a massive cover-up of the state's role in the violence, Human Rights Watch charged in a new report released today..."
"The belief is governments cannot change the nation; only creating a committed cadre in various spheres will ensure the success of the Sangh's vision for India. That's what they are working at... ARMED FORCES... EDUCATION... INTELLIGENCE SERVICES... FARMERS... SCIENTISTS... LAWYERS... TRIBALS... WOMEN... FOREIGN AFFAIRS... SOCIAL WORK... LABOUR... MEDIA..."
