{"id":50,"date":"2005-06-24T19:19:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T23:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/06\/24\/lawsuit-against-hindu-groups-for-guj"},"modified":"2005-06-24T19:19:23","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T23:19:23","slug":"lawsuit-against-hindu-groups-for-gujarat-pogroms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/06\/24\/lawsuit-against-hindu-groups-for-gujarat-pogroms\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Against Hindu Groups for Gujarat Pogroms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a427'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: arial\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Twenty-one survivors of the 2002 Gujarat pogroms have filed a damages <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4087990.stm\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">lawsuit<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> against nationalist Hindu organizations, such as the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP),&nbsp; Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) and Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (National Volunteers Corps).&nbsp; The BJP is currently in power in Gujarat, and was the ruling party in India before the elections last year.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: arial\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>The lawsuit refers to an attack on a housing society in Gujarat&#8217;s commercial capital, Ahmedabad, in which 39 people were killed.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: arial\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>One of those killed was a former Member of Parliament, Ehsan Jaffrey.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: arial\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>His widow is among 21 petitioners who have filed lawsuits&#8230;<\/EM><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\"><FONT size=\"2\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: arial\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\">Three years after the pogroms, no one has been brought to justice.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><BR><\/P><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><FONT><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: arial\"><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN-LEFT: 40px\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: arial\"><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one survivors of the 2002 Gujarat pogroms have filed a damages lawsuit against nationalist Hindu organizations, such as the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP),&nbsp; Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) and Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (National Volunteers Corps).&nbsp; The BJP is currently in power in Gujarat, and was the ruling party in India before the elections last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}