February 27th, 2002, 58 people died in a fire of train with Godhra, with the Gujarat. Sabarmati express train transported activists of extrème-right-hand side called Kar Sevaks (volunteers) turning over of a religious site disputed to Ayodhya. Ten years earlier it is in this city than was destroyed the Mosquée Babur by Hindus because it was on the place of an old temple in memory of Rāma destroys at the time of the preceding Moslem conquests in India, and also the place of its birth.

In the days and the weeks which followed, between 800 and 2.000 people were killed in Gujarat, which represents one of the intercommunity violences most fatal of the India since its independence. The majority of the people who were tuéés, or violated, are Moslem.

It is generally allowed that the fire started violences which followed. The criminal origin or accidental of fire is a crucial point. Indeed, for the Hindu sympatisants, they are the Moslem extremists who started the fire. A board of inquiry carried out by judge Justice Banerjee supports in an intermediate report/ratio the version of an accident. The impartiality of this report/ratio is however prone to guarantee.

In addition the responsibility of the central government of the state of Gujarat directed by Narendra Modi - member of the BJP - is directly blamed by the National Commission for the Human rights.

The fire of the train with Godhra

The riots which followed

Following the fire of the train a violence of a brutality without precedent aiming at the Muslim community was propagated in the state of Gujarat during the three months which followed. The Indian nationalist groups are shown to have had a role of planning of these violences.

The government, the administration and the police force of State were also blamed not to have taken sufficient measurements to protect from the civilians and to have taken an active part in violences in certain cases. Following the massacres 140.000 people would have left their houses.

After violences, the police force, shown bonds with the rioters, is suspected of having empéché the good progress of the investigations.

Electoral consequences

Arrests and lawsuit of the defendants

See too

Internal bonds

• Ayodhya
• Hindutva

External bonds

• the truth on the lie of Godhra: long investigation published in Tehelka in October 2007

Solution-film
• FINAL of Rakesh Sharma
• GUJARAT THE MAKING OFF TRAGEDY - delivers of Siddharth Varadarajan

• Crime Against Humanity - Year Inquiry into the Carnage in Gujarat

• analysis by Ruhi Khan
• alleged implication off Sangh Parivar
• After the carnage: the predatory “intelligentsia”
• Human Rights Watch carryforward one state participation in the riots
• '' Godhra' S bitter harvest '' -- BBC carryforward one Godhra, one year later.
• Amnesty International carryforward one conspiracy against the state loads