Topic: Gulberg society
Zakia Jafri and the ideal of an Indian Muslim
Zakia Jafri, widow of former parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri, who was killed by a Hindutva mob in the 2002 Gujarat genocide and a champion of justice, died on Saturday, 1 February.
“BJP doesn’t want our vote or presence; Congress knows we have no choice. We vote for Congress out of necessitude,” Gujarat genocide survivors
Twenty-two years after the Muslim genocide in Gujarat, the Muslims of Gujarat still live in fear. The survivors of the Gujarat Muslim genocide told Maktoob that the BJP, which orchestrated the pogrom, neither wants their vote nor wants to see them, while the Congress understands that the Muslims have no other option. "We are voting for Congress out of necessity," say the survivors.
When I visited Gulbarg Society
“How do you feel when your family members fall ill or catch some disease? 19 members of my family were brutally killed, my mother, my wife, my son, my brothers, my sister-in-law, my aunty, my nieces, and my nephews all of them had been slaughtered that day," says Rafiq Mansuri, a survivor of Gulberg Society massacre, part of 2002 Gujarat Muslim genocide.
Gujarat genocide: “This is where my children lived”, Qasim refused to leave Gulberg Society
A mob of around 400 people had scaled the boundary wall of the Gulberg society in the Chamanpura area of Ahmedabad and went into a killing spree in broad daylight with no intervention from police.
