INDIAN AMERICANS DEMAND THE DISMISSAL OF GUJARAT GOVERNMENT
Friday, October 26, 2007: Several prominent Indian organizations and individuals based in US and Canada have called for the immediate dismissal of the state government in Gujarat, India following an exposé by the Tehelka news magazine in which many top Hindu nationalist figures linked to the administration admitted to their active role in orchestrating and perpetrating the massacre and ethnic cleansing of Muslims in 2002 in Gujarat. The exposé reveals active participation of key state institutions including police forces and judiciary in the anti-minority pogroms.Several national and international human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have maintained since 2002 that the Gujarat government led by the BJP Chief Minister Narendra Modi orchestrated these pogroms. Following widespread protests by many Indian American organizations, Modi was denied visa by the United States administration in 2005 on account of his human rights record.
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