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dus involved in the riots. Despite substantial evidentiary 
material, the judicial commission responsible for inves-
tigating the riots reported inconclusive findings. No Hin-
dus have been charged for the violence.’’; 
Whereas a 2002 Human Rights Watch report entitled ‘‘We 
Have No Orders to Save You’’ stated that ‘‘Between 
February 28 and March 2 [2002] the attackers de-
scended with militia-like precision on Ahmedabad by the 
thousands. Chanting slogans of incitement to kill . . . 
they were guided by computer printouts listing the ad-
dresses of Muslim families and their properties . . . and 
embarked on a murderous rampage confident that the 
police was with them. Portions of the Gujarati language 
press meanwhile printed fabricated stories and state-
ments openly calling on Hindus to avenge the Godhra at-
tacks.’’; 
Whereas Brown University Professor Ashutosh Varshney, one 
of the world’s experts on riots in India, wrote in a 2004 
article that ‘‘Unless later research disconfirms the propo-
sition, the existing press reports give us every reason to 
conclude that the riots in Gujarat were the first full- 
blooded pogrom in independent India.’’; 
Whereas the Indian magazine Tehelka reported that many of 
the people who participated in the violence said it was 
possible only because of the connivance of the state police 
and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi; 
Whereas the United States Government denied Minister Modi 
a visa to the United States in 2005 on the grounds of 
a religious freedom violation under the International Reli-
gious Freedom Act of 1998, the first and only time such 
a denial has been issued; 
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Whereas February 27, 2012, was the tenth anniversary of the 
train fire and start of the communal violence in Gujarat, 
India; 
Whereas Human Rights Watch reported on February 24, 
2012, that ‘‘Where justice has been delivered in Gujarat, 
it has been in spite of the state government, not because 
of it.’’; 
Whereas minorities in Gujarat continue to experience reli-
gious and socio-economic discrimination; and 
Whereas the Department of State reported in its Inter-
national Religious Freedom Report of 2003 that ‘‘Chris-
tians were also victims in Gujarat, and many churches 
were destroyed.’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the suffering of all those persons 
who were affected by the 2002 violence in Gujarat, 
India, including those persons who lost their lives in 
the Godhra train fire; 
(2) shares the opinion of the United States De-
partment of State that the Gujarat government has 
not adequately pursued justice for the victims of the 
2002 violence; 
(3) remains concerned by reports from journal-
ists and human rights groups about the complicity 
of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 
2002 violence; 
(4) commends the United States Government 
for denying a visa to Minister Modi in 2005 on the 
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grounds of a religious freedom violation under the 
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998; 
(5) applauds the Department of State and the 
United States Commission on International Reli-
gious Freedom for their monitoring of religious free-
dom in India and throughout the world; 
(6) salutes the role of Indian police officers 
who, despite personal risk, provided honest testi-
mony about the violence in Gujarat; 
(7) supports the role of independent media in 
India that continue to highlight the Gujarat issue; 
(8) commends the role of the National Human 
Rights Commission and the Indian Supreme Court, 
which has led to some convictions in Gujarat riot 
cases, and also the arrest of a few high-level leaders 
in the Modi administration; 
(9) recognizes the work of Indian and Indian- 
American civil society groups for their tireless devo-
tion to educating people about human rights and re-
ligious freedom in India; and 
(10) calls on the Gujarat government to heed 
the recommendations of the State Department to re-
store religious freedom for all citizens in Gujarat. 
Æ 
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