gujarat

Some facts about the brutality and violence in Gujarat, India

State officials of Gujarat, India were directly involved in the killings of hundreds of Muslims and are now engineering a massive cover-up of the state's role in the violence, Human Rights Watch charged in a new report.

The Godhra train incident is what most reports about the violence in Gujurat, India point to as the starting point for the barbarism and massacre of Muslims that followed. This is why it is critical to understand exactly what happened there.

The Babri Mosque issue is central to understanding the Hindu militant revivalism and militancy that has left thousands dead in India in the last 50 years. Babri Masjid has been a source of Hindu extremist mobilization for the last 20 years.