Re:India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
by curiousDog on Friday May 16, 2014 @12:14PM
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He is alleged to have failed to stop the riots. He wasn't involved in inciting them. By those standards, Bush should be tried for war crimes for the thousands of innocent civilians that died in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen. But nope Obama was given a peace prize when there was war going on in Afghanistan
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Re:India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
by discardorama on Friday May 16, 2014 @01:13PM
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> He is alleged to have failed to stop the riots.
One can't say he didn't try. The day after the riots started, the state government sent urgent letters to the 3 states surrounding it, pleading with them to send police reinforcements. But all of the 3 states (not coincidentally, ruled by the Congress Party) refused. Even the Army was not sent (by the Central government, again ruled by Congress Party) for several days as they were "busy".
Let's just think about it: if he was indeed so "anti-muslim", why weren't there more riots in Gujarat after 2002? There have been many riots in other states, but none in Gujarat.