The British media affirms that the Indian Prime Minister, when he was Head of State of Gujarat in 2002, ordered the police to close their eyes to violence which had caused the death of at least a thousand people.
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This could refresh relations between London and New Delhi. The Indian government announced, Saturday January 21, having blocked videos and tweets sharing a BBC documentary on the role of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in community riots, calling it “propaganda”.
The documentary entitled India: The Modif question (“India: the Modi question”) says that the Prime Minister, then Head of State of Gujarat, had ordered the police to close their eyes to the serious violence that have Caused at least a thousand people in 2002, most of them among the Muslim minority. The program was not broadcast in India, the most populous democracy in the world.
Twitter has also been ordered to block more than fifty publications including links to documentary videos hosted on YouTube. The two companies, which did not comment on Sunday, respected the instructions, said Kanchan Gupta, government advisor. Certain tweets still revealed extracts on Sunday.
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According to Mr. Gupta, according to whom this program could affect India’s “friendly relations” with foreigners, several ministers examined the documentary and estimated that he questioned the credibility of the Supreme Court Indian, who bleached Mr. Modi in 2012.
The 2002 riots started in Gujarat after 59 Hindu pilgrims were killed in a fire, aboard a train. Subsequently, 31 Muslims were convicted of the association of criminals and murder. The BBC documentary takes over in particular a reported report from the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which quotes anonymous sources that Narendra Modi has met police officers to “order them not to intervene” during the anti -Muslim violence who followed death pilgrims.
These violence committed by Hindu far -right groups were “politically motivated” with the objective of “purging Muslims in Hindu areas”, adds the report of the ministry. This “systematic violence campaign has all the characteristics of the ethnic purge” and was impossible “without the climate of impunity created by the government of the State (…). Narendra Modi is directly responsible”, concludes the report. Mr. Modi, who directed the state of Gujarat in 2001 to his election as Prime Minister in 2014, had briefly prohibited from stay in the United States due to this violence.