This is not to deny that mass killings occurred under Congress rule too, like the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, and anti-Muslim violence in Nellie, Bhagalpur, Bhiwandi and Mumbai. These must be condemned and their culprits punished-a long-standing civil society demand. The 1984 violence was the worst of these. Yet, as the outstanding scholar-activist Jairus Banaji pointed out in a talk last February, no genocidal consensus got consolidated in Delhi. The city went into a shock, and the violence soon stopped. In Gujarat, a genocidal consensus stabilised; the killing went on for many weeks. To this day, there isnt the slightest trace of remorse for this among millions of Gujaratis.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 19:11:11 +0000
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