INDIA: A crime against humanity in Gujarat and state government's complicity
2003-04-07

AHRC HUMAN RIGHTS DAY STATEMENT - Effective Remedies Are Ineffective in Asia
2002-12-10

INDIA: Mass crimes against humanity based on religious intolerance
2002-03-06

INDIA: Support Religious Freedom in India
2003-04-04

INDIA: Notes from a Wounded City: We Are All Guilty - Each One of Us
Vol. 12 No. 03 MAY 2002
I stand amidst the ruins of civilisation, as I knew it. In a penumbra that seems unending. In a winter fog where our kind get into their fancy cars and loot and pillage while SMS-ing friends about the best places for satisfying unbridled greed. In a land where friends speak a language of vile hatred...

INDIA: Gujarat - An Area of Darkness
Vol. 12 No. 03 MAY 2002
A visit to the state of Gujarat is a shattering experience for any sensitive soul. It is more than a month since the violence erupted, and it still continues to burn...

INDIA: Cry, the Beloved Country
Vol. 12 No. 03 MAY 2002
Numbed with disgust and horror, I return from Gujarat 10 days after the terror and massacre that convulsed the state. My heart is sickened, my soul wearied, my shoulders aching with the burdens of guilt and shame. As you walk through the camps of riot survivors in Ahmadabad in which an estimated 53,000 women, men and children are huddled in 29 temporary settlements, displays of overt grief are unusual...

INDIA: Gujarat Riots Point to Need for Police Reform
Vol. 12 No. 03 MAY 2002
"Where the whole society has opted for a certain colour in [sic] a particular issue," admitted Ahmedabad Police Commissioner Prashant Chandra Pande, "it's very difficult to expect the policemen to be totally isolated and unaffected..."

INDIA: The Inhumanity in Gujarat
Vol. 12 No. 05 SEP 2002
After touring various parts of the state and collecting more than 2,000 oral and written testimonies from survivors, academics, independent human rights groups, women's groups and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the tribunal, which met in Ahmedabad where most of the violence occurred, sent recommendations to the state and central governments...

INDIA: Genocide: Ideology and Policy Result in Gujarat Massacre
Vol. 12 No. 05 SEP 2002
Over the past three decades, a disturbing trend in mass crimes has been the single-handed targeting of vulnerable sections of the population. This includes caste massacres against Dalits or lower castes and violence against the country's minorities...

INDIA: Long-Term Recommendations: Prescriptions for Communal Peace
Vol. 12 No. 05 SEP 2002
A Standing National Crimes Tribunal (SNCT) should be established, forthwith, to deal with all cases of crimes against humanity and pogroms, offences in the nature of genocide, cases of mass violence and genocide, cases of riots and incidents where there is large-scale destruction of lives and property, including caste, religious, linguistic, regional, ethnic and racial violence¡¦