[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]Representatives from several US media outlets attended the documentary screening this week at the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington.
The documentary examines the riots that broke out in Gujarat, India, in 2002 and the mass deaths of Muslims that followed.
They “asked on news media in the US to disclose the important involvement of Mr. Modi, Gujarat state government leader at the time, in making it happen,” said the panel, which included those with first-hand knowledge of the events.
In testimony to an Indian Supreme Court investigation in 2011, Sanjiv Bhatt, a top Gujarat police official who participated in meetings after the riots broke out, claims that Mr. Modi instructed police to do nothing for three days until the violence abated. The NPC report noted that Mr. Bhatt was given a life sentence and later prosecuted in 2018 for an old claim.
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One of the panellists debating the film was Imran Dawood, an eyewitness to the riots. He claimed that the rioters used “the same tactics as in Nazi Germany” to carry out “specific attacks on Muslims.”
The participants were informed by Aakashi Bhatt, the incarcerated whistleblower’s daughter, that many Indian institutions, such as the media and judiciary, “are corrupt.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
