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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:16:01 EST
From:         mrubyono@SUVM.SYR.EDU
Subject:      Help minority in India

Dear all fellow human right activists,
Please take an action in any way to help the powerless minority in India.
We hope Asia Watch could put a pressure to the India leaders to secure
the unsafe regions. Thanks for kind attention and cooperation.
regards,
ruby

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News December 11, 1992

INDIA
The killing of Muslims continues in India five days after
Hindu fanatics destroyed the historic Babri Mosque in Ayodhya,
India.
The Indian government has imposed a news blackout as well as
curfew in many cities of India but reports from different
parts indicate that hundreds, perhaps thousands of Muslims
have been killed by Hindu fanatics.
The worst affected areas are Bombay, cities in Gujrat, Bhopal,
Calcutta and of course many cities and towns in Uttar Pradesh
state where the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was located.
In several cities in Gujrat such as Surat, Hindu mobs set fire to
Muslim businesses burning at least 47 people to death.
The predominantly Hindu police and paramilitary forces have
also been busy killing the Muslims.
It is incredible to note that while the Hindu fascists destroyed
the 16th century mosque in Ayodhya in contravention of an order
of the Indian Supreme Court, it is the Muslims that are getting
slaughtered.
The Indian government on December 10 banned five parties and
organizations -- three Hindu and two Muslim. The Hindu groups
banned are: the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP); the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and the Hindu Shiv Sena. All three Hindu
organizations have been involved in the destruction of the Babri
Mosque and are well-known for their terrorist activities.
The Muslim organizations banned are the Jama'at-e Islami India, and
the Islamic Shiv Sena. Neither of the two was involved in any activities
related to the Babri Mosque controversy; nor have they been involved in
any violence.
Observers believe that the Indian government is trying to appear
neutral and does not want to antagonise the Hindus who have already
gone on a rampage throughout India after two of their leaders,
L K Advani and Murli Mohan Joshi, both of the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP), were placed under house arrest on December 7.
The curfew will remain in force until December 12 and may be
extended further if the Hindu mobs are not brought under control
by then.
Prime ministe P V Narasimha Rao has announced that the government
will rebuild the Babri Mosque. Muslims want to know where the
Mosque will be rebuilt. The Hindu fanatics, 300,000 of whom had
converged on Ayodhya just prior to destroying the Mosque, have
already erected a crude platform on the site of the Mosque.
Is the Indian government going to destroy the temple platform to
rebuild the Mosque?
The manner in which the Indian prime minister has conducted himself
so far indicates that it is highly unlikely. In fact, there is
mounting evidence to suggest that Narasimha Rao deliberately let
the Hindu zealots destroy the Mosque so that the Hindu population
would be satisfied who had vowed to do so.
Now when he builds the Mosque, even away from the original site,
he will try to hoodwink the Muslims into believing that he has
fulfilled his promise and that they can have a Mosque.
This is a cynical game which the Hindus are quite good at playing.
Meanwhile Muslims throughout the world have been appalled at
the destruction of the 16th century Mosque in India.
There have been demonstrations in many parts of the world against
this act of desecration and destruction.
In San Francisco, the Council of Muslim Organizations held a rally
on December 8 outside the Indian consulate. Another one is planned
for Toronto on Saturday December 12 outside the Indian consulate
at Yonge and Bloor Streets at 1:30 pm.
The destruction of the Babri Mosque should never have been allowed
to occur.
By so doing the Hindu fanatics have declared open war on Islam and
the Muslims in India. With so many other fault lines, India now
appears set on the road to self-destruction.

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