Whither Gujarat – 10 years after the carnage! NO JUSTICE for victims & NO prison for MODI?
On 27th February in the last century an important significant GENOCIDE was triggered.
Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor and head of the coalition government on 30 January 1933. As Chancellor, Hitler asked German President Paul von Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag (German parliament in Berlin) and call for a new parliamentary election. The date set for the elections was 5 March 1933. Hitler’s aim was first to acquire a National Socialist majority to secure his position and eliminate the communist opposition.
On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag was on fire. Despite the best efforts of the firemen, the building was gutted by the blaze. It was all well-known that Hitler was the mastermind of this fire!
At the time the fire was reported, Adolf Hitler was having dinner with Joseph Goebbels at Goebbels’ apartment in Berlin. Hitler, Goebbels, the Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen and Prince Heinrich Günther von Hohenzollern were taken by car to the Reichstag, where they were met by Hermann Göring. Göring told Hitler, “This is a Communist outrage! One of the Communist culprits has been arrested.” Hitler called the fire a “sign from heaven”, and claimed it was a Fanal (signal) meant to mark the beginning of a Communist Putsch (revolt).
The next day, the Preussische Pressedienst (Prussian Press Service) reported that “this act of incendiarism is the most monstrous act of terrorism carried out by Bolshevism in Germany”. The Vossische Zeitung newspaper warned its readers that “the government is of the opinion that the situation is such that a danger to the state and nation existed and still exists.” With the police infrastructure geared, opponents of the Nazis were terrorized, beaten, or sent to one of the concentration camps the Germans built to incarcerate them. Dachau, just outside of Munich, was the first such camp built for political prisoners. Dachau’s purpose changed over time and eventually became another brutal concentration camp for Jews.
The result was the massacre of Communists followed by a “Final Solution” of persecution & murder of over 6 million Jews.
By the end of 1934 Hitler was in absolute control of Germany, and his campaign against the Jews in full swing. The Nazis claimed the Jews corrupted pure German culture with their “foreign” and “mongrel” influence. They portrayed the Jews as evil and cowardly, and Germans as hardworking, courageous, and honest. The Jews, the Nazis claimed, who were heavily represented in finance, commerce, the press, literature, theater, and the arts, had weakened Germany’s economy and culture. With little opposition from most Germans and the support by the Roman Catholic church – Hitler triumphed and stirred the world!
On another 27th February of this century, another GENOCIDE was triggered:
Narendra Modi – a right wing fascist leader of the RSS (inspired by Mussolini and Hitler) in Gujarat came a long way from heading the anti corruption of Indira Gandhi government struggle in Gujarat led by JP. Driven out of Gujarat by internal caste politics of RSS-BJP – he came back in 2001, when Keshubhai Patel was removed from power due to the ebbing future of BJP after the earthquake. BJP chose Narendra Modi as the Chief Minister of Gujarat.
On 27 February 2002, 58 Hindus including 25 women and 15 children, activists of the right wing Hindu groups returning by the Sabarmati express train from Ayodhya were burnt alive in a railway coach. It’s still a secret whether Modi managed it – both Congress and BJP (the only two electoral political parties in Gujarat pin the blame on Muslims!)
Modi and his team, just like Hitler visited the train immediately after planning his response with his fascist colleagues in the government.
All hell broke loose upon the Muslims on February 28th – a pogrom – a final solution was unleashed by the FASCISTS!
A few thousand Muslims were killed, many brutally raped. Horrors of the fascist power-play imitated Berlin of the last century – wombs were pierced by trishuls and foetuses torn out, swung and burnt as if it was a ritual to the RSS patriarch-god (none existing in Hindu religion, beliefs or mythology)! Another 200 thousand Muslims lost their homes, livelihoods and environs to fascist mobs and landed in inhuman relief camps. Details of the genocide.
Like Hitler in the late 1930s, Modi reigns supremo in Gujarat as the Nero of the Hindu Gujaratis. He won two elections and clearly signaled that Gujaratis are in no mood for any reconciliation and they celebrate the rapes & murders! In his drive to change gears – he has emerged as the best Chief Minister for fostering Capitalist development. No wonder, life in Gujarat – especially for the upper-caste Hind supporters is becoming like HELL – massive pollution, privatisation of most basic services, plunder of resources by corporate sharks, LOSS OF ANY VOICE to challenge government even if all rights are lost!!!!
Even TEN YEARS after, MODI still rules! India is still a republic and democratic on paper – known as the Constitution of India! The courts are still busy discussing and still not finding any reason to address the root cause – anyone from the corridors of power who spills the bean is annihilated like Minister Pandya or arrested and harassed like cop Bhatt! In any ancient or modern society he would either have been killed or sent packing to Sabarmatijail or who knows – he may face Nero’s or Hitler’s suicidal fate!
Anti Fascist activists are being targeted – but the struggle goes on. Buts this is INDIAN DEMOCRAZY at its best– thanks to both Congress and BJP – the only two electoral parties in the world’s largest democracy!
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