11 people have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the
Gulbarg society massacre. Calling the massacre of 69 people at the Gulbarg
Society in Gujarat the "darkest day in the history of civil society",
a judge (special court) today sentenced 11 to life in jail but announced
no death sentence for any of the 24 convicts.
The attack took place on February 28, 2002, a day after a mob
set afire coaches of the Sabarmati Express train at Godhra station leaving 59
people dead. The most prominent name in the 69 people killed in Gulbarga
massacre was former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who was dragged out, hacked and
burnt to death. His frantic phone calls to police officers and senior
politicians for help allegedly went unanswered.
‘’Darkest day in the history of civil society’’ is what the
judge giving the verdict called the Gulbarga massacre. But what about Godhra
massacre, just a day earlier, where 59 people were burnt alive in a train
coach, which included infants ? Was it not even a sad day, if not the darkest
day? Does it not even deserve a mention by any lawmaker?
Those 59 people were murdered in the worst way possible by a
jihadi mob who had planned the whole thing beforehand. They made sure that the
train was surrounded, with zero chance of anyone escaping. They set the entire
coach ablaze from outside, roasting 59 men, women and children alive in the
most gruesome manner. Because they were Hindus returning from kar seva in
Ayodhya. Because they were polytheist kafirs, and in the eyes of believers,
worse than dogs, as they volunteered to go for building the foundation of Ram
Mandir where the invasive Babri Masjid once stood (on Ram janmabhoomi ruins).
Even when we compare these two events, we find that the S4 coach
burning was a pre planned event with chilling accuracy, and the next days
massacre of Gulbarg society was retaliation. There can be no justification for
any kind of violence and loss of life, but to trivialize Hindu lives and
sensationalize Muslim lives is not justice. Its opportunism of the worst kind. You
cant assemble thousands of people holding inflammable material in a matter of
few hours, it needs meticulous and calculated planning. But the secular polity
wants to whitewash this crime as if never happened. From judicial probes that
stated that the fire was lighted from inside the coach (?) to NGOs tutoring and
creating “witnesses” out of thin air to give statements of “fetuses torn out of
pregnant women”, “mass graves”, “Modi abusing Jafri (whos own anti Hindu
activities are conveniently whitewashed) and giving instructions to kill him”, “Muslims
being terrified to exist in India” to various smear campaigns against Narendra
Modi and the Gujarat government, they left no stone unturned to bring him down.
Unfortunately for them, he won the 2002 elections again, and yet again in 2007
and 2012. The smear campaign did not end in 2012, it has been going on ever
since, with them blocking his entry to US in 2005.
In contrast, what has been done for the Godhra victims? While
the names “Gulbarg society” and “Best Bakery” and “Naroda Patiya” are puked out
by prestitutes all the time, why is the name “Sabarmati Express” not invoked
even once?
Also is never told that Gujarat had numerous riots under
successive Congress governments (notably 1969), but just one under BJP, and
that has proven to be the last. Or that the much larger Bhagalpur riot (1989) in
Bihar costed Congress power in Bihar, which it has never recovered. Or that the
town of Godhra is severly under the influence of Ghanchi Muslim gangs, in one
of which Haji Bilal, one of the main perpetrators of the train burning
belonged.
Why is there zero
media support for justice for the victims of Godhra carnage? Why no hue and cry
for the perpetrators of the S4 coach burning to be tried and sentenced? You see
reams and reams of pages being written on Gujarat ‘genocide’ of Muslims in 2002
(a laughable term for this since the toll was no more than 2000-10000 odd, and
20% of the dead were Hindus), but absolutely nothing about the aftermath for
the families of the 59 dead people. Were they not humans?
No they weren’t. They
have joined the list of Kashmiri Pandits, Pakistani and Bangladeshi Hindus,
whose sufferings have been pushed under the secular carpet. This is secular
India. Hindu lives don’t matter. Everything else does. After all, the “Idea of
India” has to be scrubbed clean of anything Hindu, be it culture, or life.
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