Citizens for Justice and Peace
Police file chargesheet against Pehlu Khan, call him Cattle Smuggler Accused go scot-free, even as victims are penalised
01-Feb-2018
In a damning indictment of police incompetence and perhaps even state sponsored persecution of minority communities, the Alwar Police have filed a chargesheet against Pehlu Khan and his companions in the infamous Alwar Lynching Case. Picking up from a previously launched smear campaign where the focus was on making Pehlu Khan and his sons look…
Bleeding Memory – Babri and Bombay
25-Jan-2018
An account of how Bombay changed after the 1992 riots. Featuring interviews with Meena Menon, Teesta Setalvad, Justice Hosbet Suresh and Farooq Mapkar.
भड़काऊ भाषण रोकने के लिए किस तरह करें एफ़.आई.आर. दर्ज नफरत के खिलाफ़ कदम उठाइए
13-Jan-2018
पिछले कुछ दिनों से यह संकेत आ रहे हैं कि कुछ राज्य अपने संवैधानिक कर्तव्य के प्रति जागृत हुए हैं, वे धार्मिक अल्पसंख्यकों के खिलाफ घातक भगवा एजेंडा के तहत ज़हरीले भाषणों के द्वारा व्यवस्थित रूप से फैलाई जाने वाली नफरत,जो किसी भी हिंसा की शुरुआत होती है, को रोकने का प्रयास करेंगे. इस संबंध में चिन्ताशील नागरिकों…
Has ‘Bombay’ healed? Bombay Riots January 1993-State Responses and Citizens’ Initiatives
12-Jan-2018
“To find a lasting social peace you have to acknowledge that something wrong happened, and society has to offer some reparation for it.” Teesta Setalvad said about the Bombay riots of December 1992-January 1993 and Gujarat riots of 2002 in an interview last year. While the state reacted promptly in convicting Muslims in case of…
Never Again: How Mumbai was systematically torn apart during the Bombay Riots A Peace Initiative by CJP
12-Jan-2018
Mumbai was a city taken back from the sea by hard working men and women. It was the city of dreams… till it all fell apart and went up in flames. Perhaps it is time to learn from the past and take action today to prevent communal tension from breaking out and reducing our Mumbai…
Bombay Riots Timeline Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win, but the battle wages on... for toy soldiers
11-Jan-2018
The violence during the Bombay Riots of 1992-93 occurred in two phases, escalating to its peak between Jan 5 and Jan 9, 1993. This timeline documents key instances of rioting and violence that took place on each day of both those phases. [TIMELINE-24496] Help CJP Act on the Ground: Citizens Tribunals, Public Hearings within…
Dark Clouds over the City of Dreams The Bombay Riots Story told through Newspaper Reports
10-Jan-2018
Few events in history change the face of cities in a manner not recognizable. ‘Bombay’, now Mumbai has been long known for its cosmopolitan fabric. Every day lakhs of people migrate to ‘Bombay’ with a thousand dreams. Some want to make it big in the Bollywood, some just want to earn a living. The city,…
Down Memory Lane – 25 Years after Bombay Riots A short film by Pedestrian Pictures and CJP
10-Jan-2018
“The Struggle of Man Against Power is the Power of Memory Against Forgetting”. This Video re-Visits a Scarred City torn by hatred 25 years ago. There are Lessons to be Learned, Bridges to be Built. Act Now Against Hatred and Division. Join CJP
Anatomy of a Hate Crime The Bombay Riots Story
08-Jan-2018
The narrative of mass violence targeted against India’s religious minorities has always been preceded and accompanied by a conscious and deliberate attempt to manipulate its chronological and historical narrative. This was visibly and sharply so with the post Babri Masjid demolition violence countrywide but especially the bouts that convulsed Bombay from the afternoon of Sunday,…
How Hate Builds An account of speeches inciting hate in light of FIRs on Umar Khalid and Jignesh Mevani
07-Jan-2018
On the first day of 2018, Saffron flag bearers attacked the Bhima Koregaon Battle Memorial in large numbers. Dalits who come to Bhima Koregaon every year on January 1 to pay respects to the martyrs of the battle were caught off-guard and resisted the attacks spontaneously. The next few days saw an immaculate and organic upsurge of the resistance…
The Afrazul Killing Video as a Perfect Anti-Muslim Crime
26-Dec-2017
The video with the killing of Mohammad Afrazul by Shambhunath Raigar in cold blood, without any immediate motivation or excuse, is a watershed moment in the new-age social-media-driven communal crime in India. Where all such hate crime shared on social media, especially lynchings, builds an ever-present sense of fear for the Muslim, this video does…
In Search of an Icon Lionising cold blooded killers
19-Dec-2017
“… A Hero of Our Time, gentlemen, is in fact a portrait, but not of an individual; it is the aggregate of the vices of our whole generation in their fullest expression.” (From Foreword to A Hero of Our Time, Lermontov’ quoted in Albert Camus novel ‘The Fall’) Shambhu Lal Raigar is a new hero…
Fact-Finding Team Rebuts Love Jihad Charge in Afrazul’s killing
13-Dec-2017
Shocking details concerning the murder of Afrazul-a 48 year old migrant labourer from West Bengal by Shambhu Regar, have emerged following a fact-finding by three major groups in Rajasthan. The investigation was conducted by People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Udaipur, Bhilwara and Jaipur district, the MKSS and the members of Rajsamand Mahila Manch between…
नफ़रत से प्रेरित अपराध के विरुद्ध आवाज़ उठाइए : तीस्ता सेतलवाड़
11-Dec-2017
आज भारत में मुसलमानों और दलितों के खिलाफ नफरत से प्रेरित अपराध तेज़ी से फैल रहे हैं, यह नफरत फैलाने वाले संगठनो की घिनौनी राजनीती का परिणाम है, और इन अनुसंघित संगठनों के नेता शक्तिशाली संवैधानिक पदों पर बैठे हैं!
The End of A Civilization: Rajsamand, Rajasthan From the Secretary's Desk
10-Dec-2017
Sometimes words lose their meaning, outrage its impact and a strange numbness and chilling acceptance prevails. India is today shattering apart, bitterly impacted at its core, as incident after incident of calculated, brutal cruelty, almost all against poor, working class Muslims dot its landscape. These incidents occur with orchestrated regularity in some regions more than others. As each…