Citizens for Justice and Peace
Super cop Julio Ribeiro challenges Pandey’s appointment as DGP Gujarat
29-Apr-2016
Should a Cop Charged with Serious Crimes be appointed to the highest police position in the state? No says top cop Julio Ribeiro who has challenged the appointment of PP Pandey as acting DGP Gujarat Even as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) turns its back on its own charge sheet in the famed Sohrabuddin…
Days of Agony and Despair: former DGP, Gujarat, RB Sreekumar on How the Mob Ruled during the Gujarat Carnage of 2002
29-Dec-2015
“While it is necessary to keep alive good deeds, it is also essential to destroy wicked people.” Yajurveda, 20/25[1] The poisoner, the incendiary, The robber, and who so ever commits assault With lethal weapon, and the ravisher, And one who tries by force to oust from land These should be slain unhesitatingly (Mahabharata) – quoted…
Towards a Secular South Asia
15-Aug-2015
by Teesta Setalvad Identity Politics has a way of dividing men, women, ideas, cultures and societies. So when we kill and maim in the name of a faith, when communalism dominates our political worldview, there is a real danger of every reaction, every initiative being looked at in the name of faith. Nothing could be…
The Importance of the Zakia Jafri Petition
25-May-2013
by Teesta Setalvad It is not often that the battle against aggressive communalism, the sustained mobilization that precedes brute and targeted violence and includes hate speech and hate writing, the deliberate debilitation and paralysis of preventive and pro active measures of law and order that minimize the spread of reprisal violence and protect lives and…
Gujarat 2002 Riots : Widening the Net
30-Aug-2012
http://epaper.asianage.com/PUBLICATIONS/ASIAN/AAGE/2012/08/30/ArticleHtmls/Gujarat-02-riots-Widening-the-net-30082012006003.shtml?Mode=1 ASIAN AGE, 30 AUGUST 2012 EDIT Gujarat ’02 riots: Widening the net An opening has appeared that brings up the prospect of senior figures in the ruling establishment in Gujarat being similarly exposed The verdict of a trial court in Ahmedabad on Wednesday convict ing Maya Kodnani, a former minister considered close to…
Modi debarred from visiting EU Member Nations
08-Apr-2010
A visiting parliamentary delegation from Germany on April 8, 2010 justified the European Union (EU) debarring Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from visiting its member nations. One of them, Ute Granold, stated that German society and companies are “very sensitive to human rights issues.” Granold, a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) member of the German Parliament,…
8 years later, Gulbarg still haunts -DNA
01-Mar-2010
The DNA March 1, 2010 8yrs later, Gulbarg still haunts Victims, survivors and others visit riot spots to pay tributes to those killed in 2002 Roshan Kumar The gory incidents of 2002 communal riots still haunt the survivors at the Gulbarg Society in Meghaninagar. On Sunday, the victims, survivors and the people who are…
Reconstitute SIT, demand survivors-DNA
01-Mar-2010
The DNA March 1, 2010 Reconstitute SIT, demand survivors Roshan Kumar The application of the witnesses and survivors of the 2002 post-Godhra riots, seeking reconstitution of the special investigation team (SIT) will be heard in the Supreme Court on March 15. The survivors and Teesta Setalvad of the Citizen for Justice and Peace had…
2010: United Nation’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
01-Jan-2010
In the wake of continous reports of the large number of cases of sexual offences committed during the communal carnage of 2002, CEDAW asked the Government of India to submit a follow-up report “On the impact of massacre on women in Gujarat” by January 2008. CEDAW has also asked the government provide information disaggregated by…