There is a big campaign is going on against the visit of Naraendra modi to america. So many online petions is also there Plz sign in petions
~regards Anivar [ http://www.coalitionagainstgenocide.org/petition/modi.protest.php ] Protest The Visit of Modi, the Chief Architect of Gujarat Pogroms We are appalled that the Asian-American Hotel Owners Association has invited Mr. Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat, India, as the chief guest to its 2005 Annual Convention. AAHOA's adulation of Mr. Modi as the "Man for the 21st century for Gujarat" and as "a master political strategist, a firebrand agitator, an able administrator, an extraordinary orator" is deeply troubling and makes us wonder if this is an attempt to whitewash his role in the Gujarat pogroms. Mr.Modi and his state apparatus have been indicted by reputable Indian and International human rights organizations for their sponsorship of and complicity in the ethnic cleansing and pogroms against the Muslim community in Gujarat during February - March 2002 where thousands of people were killed and made refugees, hundreds of women and young girls were brutally raped and tortured, and religious places of worship were defiled and destroyed. By honoring Mr. Modi, AAHOA dishonors the victims of the Gujarat pogrom, and insult the moral dignity of us all. Furthermore it raises questions about the current AAHOA leadership's commitment to secularism and pluralism. Mr. Modi's government has systematically prevented victims and survivors of the genocide from attaining redress from the state judiciary. Its blatantly discriminatory handling of more than 2000 cases stemming from the Gujarat carnage has impelled the Supreme Court of India to transfer some of the cases out of Gujrat. He is a long-standing member of the RSS, an organization modelled on the Nazis and the Italian fascists. Mr. Modi's tenure has had a chilling effect on the Christian and Muslim communities of Gujarat. Mr. Modi's visit to the US is in violation of Section 604 of the US International Religious Freedom Act which makes any foreign official who has engaged in "particularly severe violations of religious freedom" inadmissible to the United States. We demand that: The Indian government take immediate steps to punish the perpetrators of pogroms and to rehabilitate the victims. AAHOA rescind their invitation to Mr. Modi and appeal to the cosponsors of the AAHOA convention to withdraw their support. The State department stop issuing visas to those associated with violence or preaching of violence. The Indian and the US governments work together to curtail the fundraising and other activities in the US of hate groups such as the one Mr.Modi belongs to. Petion 2: http://www.petitiononline.com/dccsa5/petition.html
