I was a part of the first Women’s Commission invited to investigate the Gujarat atrocities against women in March 2002. We went from camp to camp interviewing women to document the horror stories of rape and murder they recounted. Our report — The Survivors Speak — stayed on the websites of major national newspapers for several months. But in the seven years since
2002, there has been neither relief nor justice for the victims.
The authorities swore there was no evidence of Modi’s complicity in the genocide. However, human rights groups talked openly of a February 27 meeting where the police were ordered to “look the other way to allow ‘our boys’ their ‘revenge’”.
So Modi was not merely complicit, say human rights groups, he was the mastermind. The source of this information, Haren Pandya, Modi’s Home Minister, deposed before the Concerned Citizens Tribunal, led by Justice Krishna Iyer. This information has been in the public domain since Outlook carried the story. Pandya was not allowed to live to tell his tale. His murder led his embittered father, Vitthalbhai Pandya, an RSS veteran, on a crusade for justice. Vitthalbhai is willing to testify that in the February 27 meeting, his son opposed Modi’s plan to make Muslims all over Gujarat pay for Godhra.
Cedric Prakash, Director, Prashant, an Ahmedabad-based human rights group, states, “I possess letters written by Vitthalbhai Pandya, addressed to the President and Prime Minister, categorically stating that his son, Haren Pandya, was killed by Modi and Advani. “
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