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US lawmakers back Zakia Jafri, other Gujarat
riot victims
Wednesday December 05, 2012 12:39:54 PM,
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Washington:
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers joined family members of the
victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots, including the widow of a former
Indian parliamentarian, to seek a US visa ban for Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi.
Victims of the Gujarat riots will not get any justice if Modi
becomes India's prime minister, said Zakia Jafri, widow of former
parliamentarian, Ehsan Jafri, who was killed by a mob in Ahmedabad
during the riots, at a press conference on the Capitol Hill
Tuesday.
"If he (Modi) succeeds to become the prime minister, my hopes for
justice, along with the hopes of hundreds of thousands of Gujarat
victims will be lost. I hope and pray that never happens," she
said in a statement read out by her son-in-law Najid Hussain.
"Maintaining the longstanding US policy on Narendra Modi's visa is
important for the ongoing struggle for justice in Gujarat," said
Jafri's daughter Nishrin Hussain, who has become a US citizen, at
the press conference organised by the Coalition Against Genocide
ahead of the Gujarat polls later this month.
Shaik Ubaid, one of the founders of the coalition, said: "The
revocation of Modi's visa by the US is the biggest impediment in
Modi's grandiose plans for himself including becoming the prime
minister of India."
Four members of the US House of Representatives, Joseph R. Pitts,
Frank Rudolph Wolf, Trent Franks and Keith Ellison, who are among
25 US lawmakers seeking a ban on a US visa for Modi, also
addressed the press meet.
Representatives from The Advocates for Human Rights, the US
Commission on International Religious Freedom as well as several
prominent human rights activists also spoke.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, eight
Republican and 17 Democrat Congresspersons, have urged the State
Department to "deny Mr. Modi entry due to numerous reports of his
involvement in horrific human rights violations in India".
Earlier this year, Ellison had introduced a House Resolution on
the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Gujarat riots calling
for justice and reparations.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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