assalamu_aleikum_1425 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Deadly train fire which sparked Gujarat riots accidental: government
AFP
Monday January 17, 2005
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050117/1/3pwov.html
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Deadly train fire which sparked Gujarat riots accidental: government
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A train fire that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims, setting off deadly
sectarian riots in Gujarat state in 2002, was an accident and not
caused by a Muslim mob as originally alleged, an Indian government
investigation concluded.
The four-member committee appointed to investigate the fire said it
probably started inside the coach "without any external input".
"There has been a preponderance of evidence that the fire in coach
number S6 originated in the coach itself without any external
input," said retired Supreme Court judge U.C. Bannerjee, who headed
the committee.
"Moreover the possibility of an inflammable liquid having been used
is completely ruled out as there was first a smell of burning,
followed by then smoke and flames thereafter," he added.
"On the basis of the available evidence, the committee has found it
unbelievable that Kar Sevaks (Hindu pilgrims) armed with Trishuls
(tridents) would allow to get themselves burned without a murmur."
About 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in rioting and bloody
reprisals after the train fire on February 27, 2002.
Railways Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, who came to office in May as
part of a coalition government led by the Congress Party -- which
won support from Muslim voters -- set up the committee in July.
It made at least two trips to the Gujarat town of Godhra, where the
compartment caught fire. A Muslim mob had previously been alleged to
have started the fire.
Gujarat's Hindu nationalist administration has been accused by
several domestic and foreign human rights groups of turning a blind
eye to the riots and in some cases helping the trouble-makers.
The previous Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party-led federal
government was also seen as a passive bystander to the riots.
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