Request to the Government
Request to the Government of Gujarat
- POTA: Release all 2002 riot detainees immediately even while trying them under normal law OR book ALL riot accused under the same Act or under PUAA*
- Compensation:
- Through public advertisement seek data and publish a list of all victims – loss of life, limbs, property, employment, livelihood, tenancy, asset value etc – with their declaration of damage suffered by them and seek additions, corrections etc, as in the case of voter’s list, with or without government verification.
- Publish a white paper on all victims ousted from their homes, work places and employment and not resettled / reinstated back there.
- Set up a statutory Compensation Commission to invite, scrutinize and award adequate compensation at contemporary standards for all loss of life, limb, property, livelihood, asset value and opportunities lost so as to restore status quo. The financial burden may be shared equally by the Central and the State Govt.
- Prosecution:
- Set up a high-powered independent board / agency with representatives from the higher judiciary, NHRC, the CBI, and an international Human Rights organization to both investigate and prosecute all the 2002 riot cases publicly.
- Where the case was not registered in 2002 for any reason, register such cases and now prosecute the guilty
- Over 2000 cases summarily closed and ordered by the Supreme Court to be reviewed may also be looked after by this agency with SC approval
- Set up a high-powered independent board / agency with representatives from the higher judiciary, NHRC, the CBI, and an international Human Rights organization to both investigate and prosecute all the 2002 riot cases publicly.
- Set up a Truth and Reconciliation / Forgiveness Commission:
- To record confessions in all minor offences and grant pardon.
- Reconstruct all religious structures desecrated / destroyed where and in the form they originally existed.
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Request to the Government of India
- Direct the Government of Gujarat under Article 355 of the Constitution to do the aforesaid and upon failure to do so, to take action under Article 356.
- Dismiss Gujarat Government headed by NM and install another formed by BJP.
- Secularism is a basic feature of the constitution. Failure to protect it is constitutional break-down. Repeat what was done to UP Govt.
- Set up an Anti-Discrimination / Equal Opportunities Commission to investigate all cases of religious discrimination and to prosecute the offenders itself.
- Pass an Anti-communalism Act
- Set up a Communal Harmony Commission to proactively work to promote inter-faith harmony at all times
- Ban all religious fundamentalist parties or groups promoting religious or casteist hatred and / or violence
- Disqualify all legislators [MLAs / MPs] promoting communal disharmony. Apply retrospectively since 2000
- As in MP, tax the entire locality for communal violence
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