#Godhra
* 59 Hindu pilgrims, including 25 women & 25 children were burnt alive by a mob of Muslims at Godhra.
* The Nanavaty Commission reported that " it was a premeditated crime and not an accident".
*the conspiracy was hatched by some local Muslims at the Aman guest house
in Godhra the previous night & the conspirators immediately made arrangements for collecting about 140 litres of petrol from a nearby pump on the night of 26 February 2002.
T he next day when the train arrived in Godhra, Hasan Lala, after forcibly opening the vestibule between
coaches S-6 and S-7, entered S-6 and threw burning rags setting it on fire.
A dismissed CRPF officer named Nanumiyan, and Maulvi Husain Haji Ibrahim Umarji, a cleric in the town of Godhra the masterminds behind the operation.
The report concluded that the train was attacked by thousands of Muslims from the Signal Falia area.
That BURNING ALIVE of 59 Hindu women. children & men by a Muslim mob was the trigger, to the riot that followed, in which both Hindus & Muslims were killed.
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