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- Title: Normalizing Violence: Transitional Justice and the Gujarat Riots (India)
- Author : Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 355 KB
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How does it feel to be Indian Muslim? To be constantly tom by rabid elements that your real home is across the border? (1) In February and March of 2001, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP--World Hindu Council), a religious-based organization set up to mobilize "the Hindu masses," sounded the drum roll of the Ram Mandir (Ram Temple) movement. The primary objective of the movement is to construct a temple on the very spot in Ayodhya where the mobs of the Hindu Right tore apart a sixteenth century mosque with their bare hands in December 1992. The VHP declared that the mosque stood precisely on the spot where "God" was born and determined to carry out its objective of constructing the temple in pursuit of the broader mission of the Hindu Right, the establishment of a Hindu state for a nation consisting primarily of Hindus. (2) In preparation for the event, their foot soldiers visited the site of the now cordoned off area to pay respects and prepare for the bhumipuja (grand prayer). While some of these participants were returning from the site by train, allegedly shouting god chants, ("hail 'ram rajya"'--Hail to the Rule of Lord Ram) and anti-Muslim slogans ("Muslims Bharat chodo!"--Muslims leave India!), their bogey was purportedly set alight by mobs of Muslims as the train moved through Godhra station in Gujarat. (3) The carnage that followed left fifty-eight Hindus dead. This event ignited the second catastrophic event--the slaughter of over two thousand Muslims throughout the state of Gujarat both within sight of the state's law enforcement officers, who simply stood by as witnesses to the massacre, and, in some cases, with the active support of state officials. (4)
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