Teesta Seetalvad Case: तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ और आर बी श्रीकुमार को कोर्ट ने 14 दिन की न्यायिक हिरासत में भेजा

Teesta Seetalvad Case: तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ और आर बी श्रीकुमार को कोर्ट ने 14 दिन की न्यायिक हिरासत में भेजा

Profiles Highlights 14 दिनों की न्यायिक हिरासत में भेजे गए तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ और आर बी श्रीकुमार सीतलवाड़, श्रीकुमार और भट्ट पर गुजरात दंगों के मामले में साजिश रचने का आरोप है एक हफ्ते पहले दोनो के गुजरात पुलिस ने किया था गिरफ्तार Teesta Seetalvad Case: गुजरात में अहमदाबाद स्थित एक अदालत ने शनिवार को मानवाधिकार कार्यकर्ता तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ और पूर्व पुलिस महानिदेशक आर.बी.श्रीकुमार को 14 दिनों की…

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Its absolutely terrifying how India is possibly in the beginning stages of a full blown genocide of muslims and dalits and other non Hindus and no one is talking about it. All the major news channels are controlled by the media, the prime minister hasn't given a single press conference in the nine years that he's ruled, one of the major opposition MPs was recently outsed from parliament in a bullshit move and BJP party members and supporters are openly lynching people and raising genocidal slogans publicly. And no one is talking about it

"the Gujarat carnage stands out for its extensive and specific targeting of women, young girls and children, who were subjected to the most sadistic and vicious forms of violence... women suffered the most bestial forms of brutality, sexual violence, including rape, gang rape, insertion of objects into their bodies, stripping, molestation, cutting of breasts, slitting the stomach and reproductive organs, and carving of Hindu religious symbols on women’s body parts’ ... Rape was used as an instrument for the subjugation and humiliation of a community. A chilling technique, absent in pogroms unleashed hitherto but very much in evidence this time in a large number of cases, was the deliberate destruction of evidence. Barring a few, in most instances of sexual violence, the women victims were stripped and paraded naked, then gangraped, and thereafter quartered and burnt beyond recognition."

How does this does not bother you, how does this not shame you? And how do you feel nothing knowing no one was held responsible for these crimes? It's as if all these crimes never existed. They've even removed 2002 riots from textbook now. Essentially they want to erase public memory of their crimes. And we are playing complicit partners in this. And why would we not? As Hindus we like to portray we are peaceful and morally superior right? We are the best? You see, your god, if he does exist, knows who you are.

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On February 27, 2002, Vishwa Hindu Parishad called for a statewide bandh (shut-down) for February 28, a call that according to press reports, its cadre interpreted as a call to action. The state government headed by Chief Minister Narendra Modi endorsed this bandh, announced through a press note issued at 8 p.m. on February 27. This was taken by the VHP/Bajrang Dal as an endorsement of its stand.

Yes, Narendra Modi's govt endorsed strike/bandh/shutdown called by VHP. When rioters know political bosses are with them, how do you think riots will be? Severe and severe they were. The worst kind.

Indian army arrived in Gujarat soon after the Godhra carnage, the state government refused to deploy the soldiers until twenty-fours hours after they arrived and only once the worst violence had ended. By the time army was allowed by Modi to enter into state and act, 36 hours had already passed since riot started. Thirty six hours that establishment let rioters run their carnage. The army's inability to rapidly intervene was also hindered by the state government's failure to provide requested transportation support and information regarding areas where violence was occurring.

Several sites of burnt Muslim-owned restaurants, places of businesses, and hotels in Ahmedabad, Gujarat's commercial capital had police stations less than fifty feet from them. What's fifty feet even? And without exception, the Hindu-owned establishments neighboring the destroyed structures were unscathed. What does that tell you? The mob wasn't mad in anger - they were measured and calculative. And they had information that only state can have.

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The famous 500-year-old masjid in Isanpur, which was an ASI [Archeological Survey of India] monument, was destroyed with the help of cranes and bulldozers. The famous Urdu Poet Wali Gujarati's dargah was also razed to the ground at Shahibaug in Ahmedabad. While a hanuman [a Hindu god] shrine was built over its debris initially, all that was removed overnight and the plot was [paved] and merged with the adjoining road. No authority claimed any knowledge about the entire episode. It is worth noting here that the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which is responsible for the maintenance of all these structures, and for the building of roads, is run by the Congress [party] with a near two-thirds majority.

The real story of prosecution of minorities by Hitler & the resemblance

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गुजरात दंगा: सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ को दी अंतरिम जमानत

New Delhi: सुप्रीम कोर्ट की तीन सदस्यीय बेंच ने 2002 के गुजरात दंगों से जुड़े मामलों में सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ को अंतरिम जमानत दे दी है। जस्टिस बीआर गवई, जस्टिस एएस बोपन्ना और जस्टिस दीपांकर दत्ता की बेंच ने गुजरात हाई कोर्ट के तत्काल सरेंडर करने के आदेश पर रोक लगा दिया है। सुनवाई के दौरान सॉलिसिटर जनरल तुषार मेहता ने कहा कि तीस्ता को सरेंडर करना चाहिए। उनकी याचिका को विशेष तरजीह…

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Trigger Warning: Rape, murder and communal violence.

This is really a grim day for bilkis bano because one of her petitions has been rejected by the supreme Court of India. She was raped and her family was murdered during the 2002 gujarat riots and her 11 rapists have been set free by the gujarat government under the current ruling party at the centre under 'good behaviour' and the bjp leaders said that they were "good sanskari brahmin men". This really shows the apathy and insensitivity of the supreme Court of India and how Muslim women face injustice in india.

Charges Of Trying To Destabilize Gujarat Govt, Taking Money Baseless: Teesta Setalvad To Court

Charges Of Trying To Destabilize Gujarat Govt, Taking Money Baseless: Teesta Setalvad To Court

New Delhi: Social activist Teesta Setalvad, accused by an SIT of conspiring to destabilize the then-elected government in Gujarat and taking money from late Congress leader Ahmed Patel, told a local court on Monday that these charges and others levelled against her were baseless. The Mumbai-based activist, who is in jail in Gujarat, also denied charges of fabricating evidence to implicate…

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Teesta Setalvad : तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ मामले की गुजरात सरकार करेगी जांच, SIT का किया गठन

Teesta Setalvad : तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ मामले की गुजरात सरकार करेगी जांच, SIT का किया गठन

Image Source : INDIA TV Teesta Setalvad Teesta Setalvad : सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ (Teesta Setalvad) मामले की जांच के लिए गुजरात सरकार ने एसआईटी का गठन किया है। एटीएस के डीआईडी दीपन भद्रन की अगुवाई में एसआईटी तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ मामले की जांच करेगी। 2 एसपी ( DCP क्राइम चैतन्य मांडलिक, SP एटीएस सुनील जोशी) और एक ASP बी. सी. सोलंकी जांच टीम के सदस्य होंगे। शनिवार को मुंबई के जुहू से हिरास��…

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2002 Gujarat riots: SC upholds clean chit given to Modi, dismisses Zakia Jafri's plea

2002 Gujarat riots: SC upholds clean chit given to Modi, dismisses Zakia Jafri’s plea

2002 Gujarat riots: SC upholds clean chit given to Modi, dismisses Zakia Jafri’s plea New Delhi: New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots in the state and dismissed a plea by slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri’s wife Zakia Jafri. A three-judge bench headed by Justice…

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it is genuinely grotesque when hindutva fascists repeat the story about a pregnant woman being targetted by hamas with gory details to bait the outrage of zionists because. the story they're actually echoing is of an indian muslim woman called bilkis bano. her rapists were freed this year and they were garlanded and feted by local bjp workers. the riots this occured during were aided and abetted by narendra modi in 2002 when he was gujarat cm, and this was why he was not permitted a visa to many countries.

I'd say your selective opposition to ethnostates is hypocrisy, but you at least do make it clear that you'll tolerate an enormous amount of nationalist or ethnoreligious violence and repression, so long as it's coming from "nonwhite" (by your standards) people acting in the service of "decolonization."

I don't think I have a selective tolerance of ethnostates. I think I've been pretty clear in my opposition to non-white ethnonationalism, including Hindutva and Japanese nationalism (both of which I've talked about recently) and Han Chinese nationalism (which I haven't talked about recently, but which you can find posts on way back in the archives).

I don't think ethnonationalism is infinitely bad; that is to say that if there were e.g. a group of ethnic nationalists who also credibly claimed to support some form of democracy, and they were engaged in a civil conflict against an autocratic state, I might very well think they were the lesser of two evils. Someone described Rojava as an ethnostate the other day—I don't think it is, either nominally or in practice, but even if it was I would be pretty sympathetic to their cause, given that they're attempting to break away from Assad's Syria. None of that means that I think ethnonationalist policies are good.

Beyond that, I would say that "ethnonationalism" gets used pretty freely on here, for sets of policies that don't materially resemble each other very much. People trying to revive the Welsh language and the BJP trying to eliminate Muslims from India both sometimes get described "ethnonationalism", even though I don't think they actually have much in common at all as policy agendas. The most you could say is that perhaps at some level there are similar emotional motivations involved for certain supporters, but like... who cares? I don't think that's a great basis on which to judge a set of policies. Uncharitably, I think people opposed to policies of the former sort often call them "ethnonationalism" precisely to associate them with policies of the latter sort, as a cheap rhetorical trick. Even if you feel the description is technically accurate in both cases, "preservation of Welsh is just like the 2002 Gujarat riots" does not really work as an argument...

Anyway, I'm a pretty strong supporter of people's endeavors to express and partake in culture that matters to them, and I see "coordinating endeavors that matter to people" as one of the main functions of our (public and private) institutions. So I'm exceedingly sympathetic to "let's dog-ear some money in the budget to help keep Welsh alive", and I suppose if that makes me an ethnonationalist then so be it. But I don't think it does. And in any case, as you can see by my choice of example here, this applies exactly the same to white and non-white people.

गुजरात: कोर्ट ने तीस्ता सीतलवाड़, पूर्व IPS श्रीकुमार को 14 दिनों की न्यायिक हिरासत में भेजा, जानें क्या है मामला

गुजरात: कोर्ट ने तीस्ता सीतलवाड़, पूर्व IPS श्रीकुमार को 14 दिनों की न्यायिक हिरासत में भेजा, जानें क्या है मामला

अहमदाबाद: गुजरात में अहमदाबाद स्थित एक अदालत ने शनिवार को मानवाधिकार कार्यकर्ता तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ और पूर्व पुलिस महानिदेशक आर.बी.श्रीकुमार को 14 दिनों की न्यायिक हिरासत में भेज दिया. उन्हें 2002 के गुजरात दंगों के मामले में कथित तौर पर साक्ष्य गढ़ने के आरोप में गिरफ्तार किया गया था. विशेष सरकारी वकील अमित पटेल ने बताया कि सीतलवाड़ और श्रीकुमार की पुलिस हिरासत की अवधि समाप्त होने के बाद उन्हें…

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When the BJP-led NDA came to power in 1998, the government of India's human resource development minister Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi included 'Priesthood and Ritualism' into school curriculum. During his time, astrology began to be taught instead of science-based astronomy. Learning how to perform the Putrakameshthi Yajna, a (Vedic) ritual to get a male child was also introduced. They are inculcating unfounded beliefs and foolishness into children's minds. Recalling Golwalkar's call for involvement in RSS activities to be essentially devoid of any critical thinking and discernment, once they are in power, they have set about implementing this in children's education. Recently, CBSE has removed several topics from their syllabus. Of these, topics such as democracy and diversity, impact of globalization on agriculture, popular (mass), movements and communalism were removed from the Class 10 syllabus. It is for this kind of school curriculum excisions that the RSS has nurtured one of its offsprings, the 'Shiksha Sanskriti Uttahn Nyas. It has consistently been pressurizing NCERT to remove from textbooks, allusions to 'the former prime minister Manmohan Singh's magnanimous apology for the Sikh riots', and the 'killing of around two thousand Muslims in the 2002 Gujarat riots'. This is their chicanery.

Devanuru Mahadeva, 'RSS: Depth & Breadth'

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The real story of prosecution of minorities by Hitler & the resemblance

Credit: quora The prosecution of minorities under Hitler’s regime, particularly targeting Jews, is a dark chapter in history. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party implemented policies of systematic discrimination, persecution, and ultimately extermination of various minority groups, most notably Jews, but also including Romani people, disabled individuals, homosexuals, and others. The persecution…

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