Narendra Modi
The Human Rights Watch report said it all. It quoted police officers telling Muslims. “We have no orders to save you.” And that is exactly what happened. No one saved Muslims. In February 2002, the Indian state of Gujarat turned into hell for three days. Muslims believe more than 5,000 were murdered. The government, however, admits less than a thousand died. But it was the same government which failed to save Muslims. 250 girls and women were gang raped and then burned to death. Children were forcefully fed petrol and then set on fire. Pregnant women were gutted and then had their unborn baby’s body shown to them. Children were murdered infront of their parents. There were so many deaths that in Naroda Patiya there is a mass grave of 96 bodies out of which 46 were women. Around 230 Mosques were destroyed and another 274 shrines were whipped out. Human Rights Watch noted that when the police were asked to save the people they said we have no orders to save you. The only police officer who spoke against the violence is now in jail. Many scholars have described it as as state terrorism or ethnic cleansing. Other observers have stated that these events had met the ‘legal definition of genocide.’ The current Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat at that time. He is accused of many crimes including being involved in the Babri Mosque incident. But he is most famously known for the Gujarat massacre as the butcher of Gujarat. Narendra Modi had enrolled as a junior cadet in the ultra-right RSS when he was just eight years old. Modi was even arrested at a local protest in 1971 shortly before India and Pakistan’s war. In 1985 he was assigned to BJP by the RSS. On October 3 in 2001, he became the chief minister of Gujarat. Just a few months after this horrific massacre took place. The BBC news wrote “Narendra Modi 'allowed' Gujarat 2002 anti-Muslim riots.” He was banned from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada for almost a decade. He is the only person ever denied a U.S. visa based on a little known law on religious freedom. This law makes foreign officials responsible for ‘severe violations of religious freedom’ ineligible for visas. The same actions that got him banned from these countries raised him to power. The Guardian wrote Narendra Modi, a man with a massacre on his hands, is not the reasonable choice for India. But now he is the Prime Minister of India. A nuclear powered country is in the hands of a butcher.
