Godhra

[arindam]

Sheela Bhatt's report inRediff

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Rajesh - What I was going to write to you, has been essentially captured in N3's email. The point is - can we come up with a list of key questions which shed light on the Godhra "evidence" - we'll see people like Rasheeda Bhagat and Saba Naqvi Bhaumik step in to "show" that the evil yindoos set fire to themselves to make the Signal Falia thugs look bad. But, much of the "evidence" they point to is flawed and does not stand up to any logical reasoning.

An example of this is the theory that "hazards Center" is an "independent body of experts who have thoroughly analysed the evidence" - two or three pointers like the above, adequately demonstrate why what the Hazards Center says cannot be taken into consideration.

Issues like "there was no crowd there to stop people from getting out" - can also be similiarly disproved - again with appropriate URLs and hard logical reasoning.

This issue of Godhra is going to become the focus of another round of ceaseless Hindoo bashing and possibly India bashing by "human rights" groups outside the country. Hence, yet another "factual response" becomes necessary - that is high on URL data and is logically structured.

The first step is to enumerate the list of questions and issues we need to debunk or answer. Probably this forum is the best place to start listing such questions...

thoughts, comments, etc???