Riots In India

[acharya]

Perhaps it is illustrate what is happening in the rush to political expediency in the media. See an article from SATP/ Pinkerton in 2002.

http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/ajaisahni/Pink140302.htm

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Moreover, from the BJP’s perspectives at the Centre, the outcome has been disastrous, with many of its crucial coalition partners threatening to withdraw support if it did not take a unambiguous stand on Ayodhya against the Hindu fundamentalist forces, and this issue has certainly weakened the government. Despite the VHP Temple campaign, moreover, there had been no violence – and little expectation of violence – prior to February 27. The sheer fury and savagery of the Godhra incident that triggered the State-wide carnage, consequently, was entirely unexpected.


There is more than what immediately meets the eye here. <b>Investigators have now uncovered clear linkages with Pakistan-based terrorists and the leaders of the Godhra incident. Arrests include the President of the Godhra Municipal Council, and another three councillors, including Bilal Haji, are absconding. Evidence recovered includes photographs showing Haji with the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist group’s leader, Masood Azhar, as well as others of various terrorist training camps. Haji was also linked to Harkat-ul-Jehad-Islami (HuJI) cadres arrested earlier at Kolkatta in connection with the attack on the United States Information Service Centre there. Interrogations have indicated that five Pakistanis, among a number of other ‘outsiders’ had been hosted by the Municipal councillors and a local Imam at Godhra prior to the attack, and were involved in the conspiracy. Clearly, as the earlier patterns of Pakistan’s interventions in India – including support to terrorism in J&K and other theatres – become increasingly untenable, it will continue to explore and exploit alternatives rooted in the faultlines within the Indian social and political structure.</b>


Godhra was an exceptionally suitable place to hatch and execute such a plot. It has a long history of communal violence, and has, moreover, a flourishing criminal economy organised almost exclusively on a communal basis. Gujarat, in its entirety, moreover, has become a communal tinderbox, with the State government squarely rooted in the right wing ‘Hindutva’ ideology. There has also been a continuous process of Islamist mobilisation among the State’s minority community, and this has combined with a flourishing underworld that has profited immensely from the smuggling of arms, contraband and silver from Pakistan to Bombay via Gujarat. A very significant proportion of this money has been cornered by religious extremists, both Hindu and Muslim. Criminal gangs, moreover, openly take sides in communal riots, and are integral to the processes of sectarian political mobilisation.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Question:
<b>WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EVIDENCE OF PAKISTANI ORIGIN FOR THE GODHRA "ACCIDENT"?</b>

Either:
a) There was none - it was all imaginary "evidence".
b) There are interests in India that actively suppress evidence of Paki complicity in terror, because the alternative would be to actually gird up and ACT against Pakistan
c) N. Modi called up P. Musharraf and told him to send some ISI Mujaheddin to Godhra to start the fires, while a 4000-strong mob of Muslim VHP fundamentalists threw stones at the sleeper coach to keep the passengers from waking up and walking out the (supposedly) open doors on the other side of the train.

Which should I believe?

If, as I suspect, it is (b), then the prognosis for India is really really dim - there is no deterrence at all to massive terrorist attacks by Pakis. Including JDAMS.