HUMANS -GORY VALUES- HAUNTS : TRAGIC GLOBAL ESSAY

STARVATION IN GAZA : '' It is a shameful, shameful period in the history of our world,'' said Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.

Greta Thunberg, - by any observation and admission, is a human of the highest class. Student Greta Thunberg is a fearless and a born leader. The Global Founder Framers of !WOW! rise to give her a standing ovation.

And having said that, I stand to feel sorry for '' The Decline of India's values.'' ' Incredible and Shining India - Transition from Secularism to Hindutva Extremism ' self published by Danish Javeed.

The author, Danish Javeed, devoted seven years to completing this exhaustive study of the alleged state sponsored 2002 Gujarat pogrom in India. Nonetheless, it is a distressing read due to its gory details.

A three-day period of inter-communal violence occurred in the eastern Indian state of Gujarat from February 28 to March 1, 2002. The burning of a train in Godhra the day before, which caused the deaths of Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya, is cited as having instigated the violence.

It is alleged that it was a state-sponsored false flag operation. Further outbreaks occurred in Ahmedabad for three months. More outbreaks of violence against the minority Muslim population of Gujarat continued for the next year.

According to official figures, the riots ended with 1,044 dead, 223 missing and 2,500 injured. Among the dead, 790 were Muslim and 254 Hindu. The Concerned Citizens Tribunal Report estimated that  1,926 may have been killed.

In addition to many brutal killings, many rapes were reported, as well as widespread looting and destruction of property.

Narendra Modi, then chief minister of Gujarat and later prime minister of India, was accused of condoning the violence, as were police and government officials who allegedly directed the mob and provided lists of Muslim-owned properties to the attackers.

Javeed describes how and why he undertook this gruelling project: “In June 2013, I happened to read the transcripts of inhumane confessions by religious extremists [included in the book] about the Gujarat genocide in 2002 in India.

“Following the confessional transcripts, I studied Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International’s Reports on the Gujarat genocide. 

In this process, I came across the ‘Concerned Citizens Tribunal, Gujarat 2002’ report, titled ‘Crime against Humanity’, which I consider to be the most comprehensive and impartially compiled account, containing findings on the Gujarat genocide…

“The account of the cruelty unleashed during the genocide was too painful to absorb. The religious extremists slit apart pregnant women’s wombs, pulled out [and] swung their foetuses over swords and threw them into the fire.”

The World Students Society thanks Imtiaz Piracha.