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"Demons Within"
Demons Within the systematic practice of torture by inDian police a report by organization for minorities of inDia NOVEMBER 2011 Demons within: The Systematic Practice of Torture by Indian Police a report by Organization for Minorities of India researched and written by Bhajan Singh Bhinder & Patrick J. Nevers www.ofmi.org Published 2011 by Sovereign Star Publishing, Inc. Copyright © 2011 by Organization for Minorities of India. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise or conveyed via the internet or a web site without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Inquiries should be addressed to: Sovereign Star Publishing, Inc PO Box 392 Lathrop, CA 95330 United States of America www.sovstar.com ISBN 978-0-9814992-6-0; 0-9814992-6-0 Contents ~ Introduction: India’s Climate of Impunity 1 1. Why Indian Citizens Fear the Police 5 2. 1975-2010: Origins of Police Torture 13 3. Methodology of Police Torture 19 4. For Fun and Profit: Torturing Known Innocents 29 Conclusion: Delhi Incentivizes Atrocities 37 Rank Structure of Indian Police 43 Map of Custodial Deaths by State, 2008-2011 45 Glossary 47 Citations 51 Organization for Minorities of India • 1 Introduction: India’s Climate of Impunity Impunity for police On October 20, 2011, in a statement celebrating the Hindu festival of Diwali, the Vatican pled for Indians from Hindu and Christian communities to work together in promoting religious freedom. -
Concerned Citizens Tribunal - Gujarat 2002 an Inquiry Into the Carnage in Gujarat
Concerned Citizens Tribunal - Gujarat 2002 An inquiry into the carnage in Gujarat Hate Speech The carnage in Gujarat was marked by unprecedented levels of hate speech and hate propaganda. Some examples: Chief Minister Narendra Modi Terming the (Godhra) attack as ‘pre-planned, violent act of terrorism’, Mr Modi said that state government was viewing this attack seriously. — The Times of India, Feb 28, 2002. "With the entire population of Gujarat very angry at what happened in Godhra much worse was expected". — Narendra Modi, at a Press Conference in Gujarat, Feb 28, 2002. Modi said he was ‘absolutely satisfied’ with the way in which the police and State Government handled the backlash from Godhra incident and ‘happy’ that violence was largely contained… "We should be happy that curfew has been imposed only at 26 places while there is anger and people are burning with revenge. Thanks to security arrangements we brought things under control".When asked that not a policeman was visible in most areas where shops were looted and set on fire, he said he hadn’t received any complaint. — The Indian Express, March 1, 2002. "Investigations have revealed that the firing by the Congressman played a pivotal role in inciting the mob." — CM Narendra Modi on Chamanpura incident where former MP Ahsan Jaffri was burned alive with 19 of his relatives. On being asked what could have lead to the Ex-MP opening fire it was ‘probably in his nature’ to do so. — The Hindustan Times, March 2, 2002. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday termed ‘barbaric’ the murder of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri along with 19 of his family members, but said there was firing from inside the house. -
Compounding Injustice: India
INDIA 350 Fifth Ave 34 th Floor New York, N.Y. 10118-3299 http://www.hrw.org (212) 290-4700 Vol. 15, No. 3 (C) – July 2003 Afsara, a Muslim woman in her forties, clutches a photo of family members killed in the February-March 2002 communal violence in Gujarat. Five of her close family members were murdered, including her daughter. Afsara’s two remaining children survived but suffered serious burn injuries. Afsara filed a complaint with the police but believes that the police released those that she identified, along with many others. Like thousands of others in Gujarat she has little faith in getting justice and has few resources with which to rebuild her life. ©2003 Smita Narula/Human Rights Watch COMPOUNDING INJUSTICE: THE GOVERNMENT’S FAILURE TO REDRESS MASSACRES IN GUJARAT 1630 Connecticut Ave, N.W., Suite 500 2nd Floor, 2-12 Pentonville Road 15 Rue Van Campenhout Washington, DC 20009 London N1 9HF, UK 1000 Brussels, Belgium TEL (202) 612-4321 TEL: (44 20) 7713 1995 TEL (32 2) 732-2009 FAX (202) 612-4333 FAX: (44 20) 7713 1800 FAX (32 2) 732-0471 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] July 2003 Vol. 15, No. 3 (C) COMPOUNDING INJUSTICE: The Government's Failure to Redress Massacres in Gujarat Table of Contents I. Summary............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Impunity for Attacks Against Muslims............................................................................................................... -
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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2014 INTERNATIONAL In India, a case of rule and divide Some Muslims support Modi’s pro-growth policies AHMEDABAD: Ali Husain is a prosper- Modi’s government amended the law in ous young Indian Muslim businessman. 2009 to give local officials greater pow- He recently bought a Mercedes and er to decide on property sales. It also lives in a suburban-style gated commu- extended the reach of the law, most nity that itself sits inside a ghetto. In recently in 2013 - 11 years after the last Gujarat, it is so difficult for Muslims to major religious riots. buy property in areas dominated by The state government says the law is Hindus even the community’s fast- meant to protect Muslims, who account growing urban middle class is confined for just under 10 percent of the state’s to cramped and decrepit corners of 60 million people. “It prevents ethnic cities. Husain embodies the paradox of cleansing and people being forced out,” Gujarat: the state’s pro-business leader- a senior government official who ship has created opportunities for requested anonymity told Reuters. entrepreneurs of all creeds; yet religious Critics say the act’s continued enforce- prejudice and segregation are deeply, ment and the addition of new districts and even legally, engrained. If a Muslim covered by it - about 40 percent of enquires about a property in a new Ahmedabad is now governed by the development, often the response is: law - means it is effectively being “Why are you even asking?” said Husain, applied as a tool of social engineering. -
Breathing Life Into the Constitution
Breathing Life into the Constitution Human Rights Lawyering In India Arvind Narrain | Saumya Uma Alternative Law Forum Bengaluru Breathing Life into the Constitution Human Rights Lawyering In India Arvind Narrain | Saumya Uma Alternative Law Forum Bengaluru Breathing Life into the Constitution Human Rights Lawyering in India Arvind Narrain | Saumya Uma Edition: January 2017 Published by: Alternative Law Forum 122/4 Infantry Road, Bengaluru - 560001. Karnataka, India. Design by: Vinay C About the Authors: Arvind Narrain is a founding member of the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore, a collective of lawyers who work on a critical practise of law. He has worked on human rights issues including mass crimes, communal conflict, LGBT rights and human rights history. Saumya Uma has 22 years’ experience as a lawyer, law researcher, writer, campaigner, trainer and activist on gender, law and human rights. Cover page images copied from multiple news articles. All copyrights acknowledged. Any part of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted as necessary. The authors only assert the right to be identified wtih the reproduced version. “I am not a religious person but the only sin I believe in is the sin of cynicism.” Parvez Imroz, Jammu and Kashmir Civil Society Coalition (JKCSS), on being told that nothing would change with respect to the human rights situation in Kashmir Dedication This book is dedicated to remembering the courageous work of human rights lawyers, Jalil Andrabi (1954-1996), Shahid Azmi (1977-2010), K. Balagopal (1952-2009), K.G. Kannabiran (1929-2010), Gobinda Mukhoty (1927-1995), T. Purushotham – (killed in 2000), Japa Lakshma Reddy (killed in 1992), P.A. -
Gujrat Pogrom – a Flagrant Violation of Human Rights and Reflection of Hindu Chauvinism in the Indian Society
Gujrat Pogrom – A Flagrant Violation of Human Rights and Reflection of Hindu Chauvinism in the Indian Society The Incident: Five and half years ago, during the last week of February 2007, the Muslims living across the Indian state of Gujarat witnessed their massacre at the hands of their Hindu compatriots. On 27 February, the stormtroopers of the Hindu right, decked in saffron sashes and armed with swords, tridents, sledgehammers and liquid gas cylinders, launched a pogrom against the local Muslim population. They looted and torched Muslim-owned businesses, assaulted and murdered Muslims, and gang-raped and mutilated Muslim women. By the time the violence spluttered to a halt, about 2,500 Muslims had been killed and about 200,000 driven from their homes. The Gujrat pogrom, which has been documented through recent interviews of perpetrators of the pogrom, was distinguished not only by its ferocity and sadism (foetuses were ripped from the bellies of pregnant women, old men bludgeoned to death) but also by its meticulous advance planning with the full support of government apparatus. The leaders used mobile phones to coordinate the movement of an army of thousands through densely populated areas, targeting Muslim properties with the aid of computerized lists and electoral rolls provided by state agencies. It has been established by independent reports that the savagery of the anti-Muslim violence was planned, coordinated and implemented with the complicity of the police and the state government. The Gujarat carnage was unprecedented in the history of communal riots in India. Never such communal violence took place with so much active collaboration of the state. -
The Ecology of Ethnic Violence: Attacks on Muslims of Ahmedabad in 2002
Qual Sociol (2016) 39:71–95 DOI 10.1007/s11133-015-9320-5 The Ecology of Ethnic Violence: Attacks on Muslims of Ahmedabad in 2002 Raheel Dhattiwala 1 Published online: 28 December 2015 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 Abstract Ethnic violence killed at least a thousand Muslims in Gujarat (western India) in 2002. The role of political elites in orchestrating attacks against Muslims for electoral gains was a conspicuous characteristic of the violence. Yet, as this article demonstrates, the political thesis was insufficient in explaining why neighborhoods, often contiguous, experienced different levels of violence. Alternative explanations, such as interethnic contact, were also found wanting. A unique research design allowing the comparison of neighborhoods in the same electoral ward in the city of Ahmedabad demonstrates the critical role of ecology in explaining microspatial variation in the violence. Even when attacks were politically orches- trated, attackers still acted with some regard to self-preservation in selecting which location to attack. Observational and testimonial evidence based on 22 months of ethnographic fieldwork reveals the importance of two ecological factors: the built environment and the population distribution of potential targets. Together, the two factors heavily shaped crowds’ decisions to attack or escape, thus influencing the subsequent success or failure of the attack. Muslims were most vulnerable where they were concentrated in small numbers and on routes that afforded the attackers obstacle-free entry and retreat. Where the potential targets had an obstacle-free escape route to a large concentration of fellow Muslims, the outcome was looting and arson rather than killing. By implication, the course of politically orchestrated violence was com- plicated by the ecology of the targeted space. -
Müller Indien Ganz Rechts 2014 04 29
1 DEUTSCHLANDFUNK Sendung: Hörspiel/Hintergrund Kultur Dienstag, 29.04.2014 Redaktion: Karin Beindorff 19.15 – 20.00 Uhr Indien ganz rechts Die Karriere des Hindunationalisten Narendra Modi Von Dominik Müller URHEBERRECHTLICHER HINWEIS Dieses Manuskript ist urheberrechtlich geschützt und darf vom Empfänger ausschließlich zu rein privaten Zwecken genutzt werden. Jede Vervielfältigung, Verbreitung oder sonstige Nutzung, die über den in §§ 45 bis 63 Urheberrechtsgesetz geregelten Umfang hinausgeht, ist unzulässig. Deutschlandradio - Unkorrigiertes Manuskript - 1 2 O-Ton Anand Sharma, Wirtschaftsminister Would you insult at hundreds of million of voters in India? .... Respect democracy, respect our country! Sprecher 1 Würden Sie hunderte Millionen Wähler in Indien beleidigen? Würden Sie ihnen vorschreiben, wie sie zu entscheiden haben? Schreiben wir anderen Ländern vor, wie ihre Wähler abstimmen sollen? Respektieren Sie die Demokratie, respektieren Sie unser Land! Atmo Nachrichten CNN-IBN Erzähler Anand Sharma, der amtierende indische Wirtschaftsminister, ärgerte sich, als die US-Bank Goldman Sachs Anfang November 2013 eine Prognose über die Entwicklung der Wirtschaft in Indien veröffentlichte. Schon der Titel „Modi-fying our view“ war eine wenig subtile Wahlempfehlung für den Spitzenkandidaten der größten Oppositionspartei: Narendra Modi von der BJP, der Bharatiya Janata Party, der Indischen Volkspartei. Die mächtige US-Bank machte Stimmung: Sprecher: (Modi ist) ein Agent des Wandels, der Indien von einem Leichtgewicht zu einem Marktschwergewicht -
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 24/25 | 2020 Hindutva’S Blood 2
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal 24/25 | 2020 The Hindutva Turn: Authoritarianism and Resistance in India Hindutva’s Blood Dwaipayan Banerjee and Jacob Copeman Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/6657 DOI: 10.4000/samaj.6657 ISSN: 1960-6060 Publisher Association pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud (ARAS) Electronic reference Dwaipayan Banerjee and Jacob Copeman, « Hindutva’s Blood », South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [Online], 24/25 | 2020, Online since 01 November 2020, connection on 15 December 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/6657 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.6657 This text was automatically generated on 15 December 2020. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Hindutva’s Blood 1 Hindutva’s Blood Dwaipayan Banerjee and Jacob Copeman 1 Like many other nationalist movements, Hindu nationalism “understand[s] and order[s] the world through ‘cultural essentials’ of religion, blood, and other practices related to the body—food, marriage, death” (Hansen 1999:11). In what follows, we focus particularly on how blood as a political substance of Hindu nationalism congeals ideology in material forms. Specifically, we trace how blood is imagined and exteriorized by Hindutva leaders and adherents: in ideological texts, in donation camps, through the offering of activists’ own blood to political figures, in blood- portraiture of political figures, and in bloodshed during episodes of communal violence. 2 Tracing these imaginations and exteriorizations, we identify three ways in which blood has become a medium and conceptual resource for Hindutva practice. First, we trace how Hindu nationalist ideologues equate blood with the nation’s spatial boundaries, demanding that non-Hindus recognize an ancient, essential blood-tie and assimilate back into the Hindu fold. -
Mrs. Zakia Ahsan Jafri V/S Mr
IN THE COURT OF THE 11th METROPOLITAN MAGISTRATE, AHMEDABAD MRS. ZAKIA AHSAN JAFRI V/S MR. NARENDRA MODI & OTHERS PROTEST PETITION ON THE COMPLAINT DATED 8.6.2006 & AGAINST THE FINAL REPORT OF THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATION TEAM DATED 8.2.2012 (PART I) 1 MAIN INDEX TO PROTEST PETITION Sr.No. Subject Page Nos Opening Page of the Protest Petition Filed on 15.4.2013 1. Main Petition:- PART I 2. Main Petition:- PART II Main Petition Continues PLUS Compilation of Supreme Court Orders in SLP1088/2008 & SLP 8989/2013 Graphic Depicting Distances from Sola Civil Hospital to the Sola Civil Police Station, Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad’s Office, Airport, Two Crematoriums at Hatkeshwar near Ramol and Gota; Naroda & Gulberg Chart of PCR (Police Control Room Messages) Showing Aggressive Mobilisation at the Sola Civil Hospital Chart of SIB Messages recording the arrival of the Sabarmati Express from Godhra at the Ahmedabad Railway station at Kalupur on 27.2.2002 & Murderous Sloganeering by the VHP and Others Map showing Gujarat-wide Mobilisation through aggressive Funeral Processions on 27.2.2002, 28.2.2002 & 1.3.2992 onwards & attacks on Minorities Map showing Scale of Violence all over Gujarat in 2002 Map showing Details of Deaths, Missing Person, Destruction on Homes, Shrines in 2002 3. ANNEXURES -VOLUME I (Sr Nos 1- 51) 1 – 304 pages News reports related to Provocations, Sandesh Articles, SIB Statistics, Important Letters from SIB, Rahul Sharma, Statistics on Police Firing & Tables Extracted from the SIB Messages/PCR messages from the SIT Papers, VHP Pamphlets & Petitioners Letters to Investigating agency 1 – 162 pages 4. -
Accountability for Mass Violence Examining the State’S Record
Accountability for mass violence Examining the State’s record By Surabhi Chopra Pritarani Jha Anubha Rastogi Rekha Koli Suroor Mander Harsh Mander Centre for Equity Studies New Delhi May 2012 Preface Contemporary India has a troubled history of sporadic blood-letting in gruesome episodes of mass violence which targets men, women and sometimes children because of their religious identity. The Indian Constitution unequivocally guarantees equal legal rights, equal protection and security to religious minorities. However, the Indian State’s record of actually upholding the assurances in the secular democratic Constitution has been mixed. This study tries to map, understand and evaluate how effectively the State in free India has secured justice for victims of mass communal violence. It does so by relying primarily on the State’s own records relating to four major episodes of mass communal violence, using the powerful democratic instrument of the Right to Information Act 2005. In this way, it tries to hold up the mirror to governments, public authorities and institutions, to human rights workers and to survivors themselves. Since Independence, India has seen scores of group attacks on people targeted because of their religious identity1. Such violence is described in South Asia as communal violence. While there is insufficient rigorous research on numbers of people killed in religious massacres, one estimate suggests that 25,628 lives have been lost (including 1005 in police firings)2. The media has regularly reported on this violence, citizens’ groups have documented grave abuses and State complicity in violence, and government-appointed commissions of inquiry have gathered extensive evidence on it from victims, perpetrators and officials. -
3.Hindu Websites Sorted Country Wise
Hindu Websites sorted Country wise Sl. Reference Country Broad catergory Website Address Description No. 1 Afghanistan Dynasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindushahi Hindu Shahi Dynasty Afghanistan, Pakistan 2 Afghanistan Dynasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayapala King Jayapala -Hindu Shahi Dynasty Afghanistan, Pakistan 3 Afghanistan Dynasty http://www.afghanhindu.com/history.asp The Hindu Shahi Dynasty (870 C.E. - 1015 C.E.) 4 Afghanistan History http://hindutemples- Hindu Roots of Afghanistan whthappendtothem.blogspot.com/ (Gandhar pradesh) 5 Afghanistan History http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/mode Hindu Kush rn/hindu_kush.html 6 Afghanistan Information http://afghanhindu.wordpress.com/ Afghan Hindus 7 Afghanistan Information http://afghanhindusandsikhs.yuku.com/ Hindus of Afaganistan 8 Afghanistan Information http://www.afghanhindu.com/vedic.asp Afghanistan and It's Vedic Culture 9 Afghanistan Information http://www.afghanhindu.de.vu/ Hindus of Afaganistan 10 Afghanistan Organisation http://www.afghanhindu.info/ Afghan Hindus 11 Afghanistan Organisation http://www.asamai.com/ Afghan Hindu Asociation 12 Afghanistan Temple http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Temples_ Hindu Temples of Kabul of_Kabul 13 Afghanistan Temples Database http://www.athithy.com/index.php?module=p Hindu Temples of Afaganistan luspoints&id=851&action=pluspoint&title=H indu%20Temples%20in%20Afghanistan%20. html 14 Argentina Ayurveda http://www.augurhostel.com/ Augur Hostel Yoga & Ayurveda 15 Argentina Festival http://www.indembarg.org.ar/en/ Festival of