Human Rights Watch 2003: Snippet & Link

Delhi responsible for Gujarat riots: HRW:
Musharraf's efforts led to pro-military democracy

NEW YORK, Jan 14: India witnessed its worst episode of communal violence in over a decade in 2002, demonstrating the increasingly volatile consequences of a broad and government-supported Hindu nationalist agenda in the country, while in Pakistan the measures taken by President Gen Pervez Musharraf's government ensured a
military-controlled democracy, said a Human Rights Watch 2003 report released on Tuesday.

The report said that in February and March state-supported anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat state claimed at least 2000. As in
Gujarat, attacks against historically discriminated groups in other parts of the country, including Christians, Dalits (or so-
called untouchables), and tribesmen, were carried out with virtual impunity. Attacks by militants continued to claim many civilian
lives in the disputed region of Kashmir and in the northeast....

http://www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl?file=top15.htm&date=20030115

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