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I don't get it. Modi massacred 2000 Indians. Why is he still in office? Indians should be up in arms about it all!
There is no doubt the Gujarat was a modern day genocide. I hope the guilty get punished.
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They were riots, not Genocide.
'Genocide' is used with populations are wiped out on a large scale.
Have you heard of any developing modern day country where 3000 people are killed in a couple of days ? My sympathies for all people who died but if you check the defination of genocide below you will see that Gujarat does qualify under it.
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.
While precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Article 2, of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
Where did you get the 3000 figure?
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Gujarat Muslim women 'rape victims'
The official death toll in last month's riots has now risen to 778, although welfare groups put the figure at about 2000.
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group.
Muslims still live in Gujarat and participate in all walks of life.
Both religious groups were targeted by mobs.
By mobs ? Consisting of whom ? Why then the world over all neutral reports state that the Muslims bore the brunt of the attacks and losses ?
Genocide is always one-sided.
It was one sided and a shamefull period for India.
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Ps : You still have to tell me in which developing country other than Iraq, China has such a situation taken place.
It was one sided and a shamefull period for India.
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It is a shameful part of India's history, one from which we have drawn lessons.
I also concede that the state machinery was not upto the mark. This does not imply that it was in an all out total effort to annihilate the Muslim populace of Gujrat.
It, however, was not a genocide and was not one-sided.
Please prove your 3000 figure, and also prove that it was one sided. Its your prerogative to do so since you staked these claims.
I say that the figure was substantially lesser, and people of both groups were killed in substantial numbers.
Hence the term "riots', and not "genocide".
We haven't agreed on what exactly the situation was, therefore we cannot start talking about which other countries had a similar situation.
To make it easier, I'll repeat my examples of modern day genocides: Rwanda, Darfur and Bosnia.
I'll also repeat what I think closely resembles genocide: Ethnic Cleansing.
Now please tell me: Was there ethnic cleansing in Gujarat?
From all accounts published in the media it was a genocide in certain neighbourhoods