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Mar 1

Thread: The #Massacre at Best Bakery
On March 01, 2002, the Best Bakery area was attacked and burned down by a deranged mob of #RSS situated in Hanuman Tekri. The Best Bakery case was a symbol of the 2002 #Gujarat carnage.

Its controversial nature attracted the allegation of the State Government, implying the government’s compliance in it. During the incident, a mob targeted the Sheikh family who ran the bakery and had taken refuge inside...,

...resulting in the deaths of 14 (11 #Muslims including family members and 3 Hindu employees of the bakery). This case has come to symbolize the carnage in 2002# Gujrat riots (and the alleged State Government complicity in it) that followed the #Godhra train massacre.

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Feb 28

Thread: The Horrific Killing of Ehsan Jafri in the #GulbargMassacre
On 28 February 2002 Ehsan Jafri was gruesomely murdered by a feverish mob. Slaughtered along with him were around seventy women, children and men who had taken shelter with the man....

...whom they had believed was influential enough to save their lives from a colossal armed mob baying for blood.
But he was dragged away by the horde, his limbs were cut off from his body before he was burned. His family could not even locate his remains.

He was a renowned poet, labor leader and politician who was killed in infamous #Gulbarg Society massacre in Gujarat 2002 riots. #Modi, then the CM of Gujarat, was accused of doing little to stop the anti-Muslim riots -an allegation he has always denied.

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Feb 28

🛑 Naxal Insurgency - Chhattisgarh

1. Two policemen killed due to Naxalites fire in Bijapur.

2. Women Naxalites set blaze 3 machines engaged in road construction in Kanker dist.

3. BSF & Nagaland police department after pre-poll violence in Noklak district; 5 people injured & several vehicals damaged.

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Feb 27

THE MYSTERY OF #GodhraMassacre

21 years ago in 2002, the #Godhra incident took place on this very day. On this day, the Sabarmati Express train was set on fire at Godhra. A crazed mob set fire to a coach of #SabarmatiExpress departing from #Godhra railway station in #Gujarat.

In this incident, 59 returnees from #Ayodhya were killed and riots broke out across Gujarat.
Hindu pilgrims were returning from Ayodhya in the #SabarmatiExpress. On 27 February 2002, the train reached Godhra station in #panchmahal district of Gujarat.

As the train was about to depart, someone pulled the chain and stopped the train, and then threw stones and set fire to the coach. 59 people lost their lives in the S-6 coach fire. FIR registered against 1500 people in #GodhraMassacre.

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Feb 27

Thread: BSF Soldiers Disarmed by Bengali Farmers

Two #BSF jawans were attacked and their weapons snatched allegedly by Bangladeshi farmers who sneaked into India to graze their cattle in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on 26 Feb 2023.

The incident happened near the Nirmalchar border outpost in Ranitala police station area when two jawans of the 35th Battalion were patrolling. On noticing that a group of #Bangladeshi farmers was crossing the border to graze their cattle on fields of #Indianfarmers.....,

...the jawans intercepted them. Soon, hundreds of people from #Bangladesh crossed over to India, and attacked the jawans with sticks and ‘dah’ a sharp-edged tool mainly used in farming as per #BSF. BSF said the Border Guards Bangladesh (#BGB) was informed about the incident...,

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Feb 26

@YouTube

The Indian government has ordered @YouTube and @Twitter to take down videos and tweets about a @BBCWorld documentary that is critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. BBC aired the first episode of the two-part documentary, “India: The Modi Question” on January 17.

The series addresses the 2002 communal riots in the western Indian state of #Gujarat , where Modi was the chief minister at the time. Nearly 800 Muslims and more than 250 Hindus died in the riots.

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There had been "widespread and systematic rape of Muslim women" and that "the aim was to purge Muslims from Hindu areas".The second episode, which aired on 24 January, focused on @Modi's second term in power and his government's extraordinary policies ...

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