200,000 Gujarati Muslim internal refugees IGNORED by India & World

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:50 PM EDT

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Seeded by Gideon Polya

In the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, India, 2000 were killed , 300 women raped and mutilated and over 200,000 displaced (95% Muslim); still 25,000 internal refugees cruelly negected by India and the world.

Key quote: "Gujarat Government has refused to give these [refugee] colonies any legitimacy, and the people living in them live in squalor, without basic services – no pucca [proper] roads, electricity, schools, health services, ration shops, or means of a dignified livelihood. Nothing. They also live with no justice and no fundamental rights of citizenship... [they] demand recognition, reparation and rehabilitation from the Indian State."

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Gideon Polya

This is an appalling, ongoing tragedy that should be firmly placed before decent Humanity until the Indian State lives up to its "constitutional promise" of equal rights and protection for all Indians.

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#1 - Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:15 PM EDT

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Gideon Polya

Some minimal compensation was given. It is estimated that 25,000 of the initial 200,000 refugees still remain as internal refugees discarded by the Indian State.

Read what Arundhati Roy had to say about the Gujarat Pogrom, the Gujarat Massacre: (see: link ) and concludes thus in a powerful call against racism, bigotry and the new Indian fascism:

QUOTE: "

Are we ready to get off our starting blocks? Are we ready, many millions of us, to rally not just on the streets, but at work and in schools and in our homes, in every decision we take, and every choice we make? Or not just yet... If not, then years from now, when the rest of the world has shunned us (as it should), like the ordinary citizens of Hitler's Germany, we too will learn to recognise revulsion in the gaze of our fellow human beings. We too will find ourselves unable to look our own children in the eye, for the shame of what we did and did not do. For the shame of what we allowed to happen. This is us. In India. Heaven help us make it through the night.

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#1.1 - Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:30 PM EDT

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Leah M

What a powerful quote.

Thanks for sharing the article. I had no idea this even occurred, although knowing the views of some of my more conservative Gujarati friends, I am not horribly surprised. I hope they are no longer ignored. This world needs to learn tolerance so badly.

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#1.2 - Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:27 PM EDT

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Gideon Polya

I agree, Leah , a powerful quote. It could also apply to us in the US Alliance countries complicit in Racist Bush-ite (RB) and Racist Zionist (RZ) crimes against humanity: there are currently 7 million Palestinian refugees, 4 million Occupied Iraqi refugees and 3.7 million Occupied Afghan refugees.

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#1.3 - Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:07 AM EDT

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