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## India: Gujarat Chief Minister Endorses Unlawful Killings

Released on 2012-09-03 09:00 GMT

Email-ID | 294962
Date | 2007-12-07 20:01:59
From | hrwpress@hrw.org
To | responses@stratfor.com

For Immediate Release
India: Gujarat Chief Minister Endorses Unlawful Killings
Government Should Investigate Narendra Modi for Seeming Incitement to
Violence
(New York, December 7, 2007) The Indian government should immediately
order an investigation of Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat,
for statements apparently endorsing the extrajudicial execution of a
terrorism suspect by the police, Human Rights Watch said today.
Gujarat's antiterrorism squad in November 2005 gunned down Sohrabuddin
Sheikh, whom police claimed was a militant conspiring to kill Modi. The
Gujarat government has since admitted that there is no evidence Sheikh was
a terrorist and that he had been executed in a fake "encounter," one in
which police falsely claimed that he had been killed in an exchange of
fire. In July, the government filed charges against several police
officials. In a speech on December 5, however, Modi suggested that people
like Sheikh deserved to be killed.
"Modi's remarks send a green light to the police that executing terrorism
suspects is fine with his administration," said Brad Adams, Asia director
at Human Rights Watch. "The government in Delhi should immediately
investigate this seeming incitement to violence."
At a rally in his campaign for re-election as chief minister, Modi said
that Sheikh "got what he deserved." Modi asked the crowd, "What should
have been done to a man from whom a large number of AK-47 rifles were
recovered, who was on the search list of police from four states, who
attacked the police, who had relations with Pakistan and was eyeing to
enter Gujarat?"
The crowd replied "mari nakho-mari nakho" (kill him, kill him), to which
Modi said, "Does my government need to take permission of Soniaben
[Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi] for this? Maut na Saudagar [merchants
of deaths] will be dealt in the same fashion on the land of Gujarat."
After widespread criticism of his remarks, the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) politician explained that he had been provoked and was responding to
the allegation by Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi that his government
was a "merchant of death."
"Modi cannot hide behind accusations of provocation to justify remarks
endorsing a murder," said Adams. "He used similar excuses after the police
participated in a killing spree of Muslims in 2002, but his pretexts were
as hollow then as they are today."
After Sheikh's killing, his family filed a petition with the Supreme Court
requesting an independent investigation. In its response to a Supreme
Court notice, the state government admitted that Sheikh had been murdered
in a false armed "encounter." The Supreme Court ordered the Gujarat
government to create a special police team to investigate the case and
submit status reports. In July, the Gujarat police filed charges against
13 police officials, including D G Vanzara, who headed the anti-terror
squad.
In its charge sheet, the police said that Sheikh and his wife Kausar Bi
were pulled out of a bus by members of the Gujarat antiterrorm squad on
November 22, 2005. They were secretly detained for four days. (They were
not carrying any weapons as alleged by Modi in his speech). According to
an eyewitness, early in the morning of November 26, Sheikh was taken to
the outskirts of Ahmedabad, where he was shot by police officers. His body
was then taken to the hospital and a police report filed which claimed
that he had been killed in an exchange of fire.
The whereabouts of Kausar Bi remains unknown. Police investigations
suggest that she was killed and her body burnt.
In response to Modi's comments, India's Election Commission has served
notice to Modi saying that it is of the view that the speech "amounts to
indulging in activity which may aggravate existing differences, creating
mutual hatred and causing tension between different communities." Modi has
until December 8 to respond.
Local activists and Muslim organizations have long accused Modi of
responsibility for the anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat in February and
March 2002, which left at least 1,000 dead. After 59 Hindu pilgrims died
during a mob attack by Muslims on their train in Gujarat in 2002, Hindu
militant groups carried out widespread and coordinated attacks on Muslims
in which thousands were killed, hundreds of women were raped and Muslim
properties destroyed.
Human Rights Watch found that the attacks on Muslims were planned and
organized with extensive police participation and in close cooperation
with supporters of Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the state
government. Modi had justified those attacks at the time, saying that,
"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction," referring to the Godhra
incident.
"Modi's defenders say that his speech is being misrepresented, and that
politicians make exaggerated remarks during election campaigns," said
Adams. "But endorsing a police killing sends the wrong message at all
times, and especially during an election."
For more information, please contact:
In Mumbai, Meenakshi Ganguly (English, Hindi, Bengali): +91-98-200-36032
In London, Brad Adams (English): +44-20-7713-2767; or +44-79-0872-8333
(mobile)
In New York, Sam Zarifi (English, Dari, Persian): +1-646-662-7750 (mobile)