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Induction of a massacre
Desai, Bindu T
Desai, Bindu T
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On August 29, 2012, a court in Ahmedabad ruled in a case involving 61 individuals accused of the massacre of 96 Muslims in Naroda Patiya, Gujarat, on February 28, 2002. The massacres occurred a day after a terrible fire engulfed a train near Godhra, Gujarat, in which 59 karsevaks (volunteer workers for a religious cause) were burnt alive, and more than 100 injured. The karsevaks were returning from Ayodhya where they were participating in a campaign to build a temple dedicated to Ram on a site where a mosque had stood. Subsequently, Naroda Patiya was one of many towns in Gujarat affected by riots in which thousands of individuals, mainly Muslims, were murdered, raped, looted, and displaced, their homes ransacked, their livelihoods destroyed by activists of Hindu fundamentalist organisations. For over a decade, victims of these pogroms have sought justice for their murdered kin and for their own injuries, physical and psychological. On August 29, Dr Jyotsna Yagnik, designated judge for “conducting Speedy Trial of Riot cases”, found 32 of the 61 accused guilty of multiple charges, including murder and criminal conspiracy. Of the 61 individuals, it is Accused no 37 (A-37), Dr Maya Surendrabhai Kodnani, whose conduct is of interest to us as she was a gynaecologist who ran a maternity home in the area. Societal roles played by physicians in the past century have been discussed, comparing the very different ideologies that have inspired them
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2013
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