Gujarat Pogrom of 2002: Five years on The Truth Uncovered by an undercover media investigation. The Tehelka Files - an extensive review.

India's threatened secular state must take note and arrest the men from the Hindu far right who organised the killings. Materials gathered by the Tehelka investigation should be used as evidence and the men charged now.

Tehelka Spycam Videos
Babu Bajrangi: A local Bajrang Dal leader and one of the main conspirators
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfnTl_Fwvbo

Arvind Pandya: State Counsel appointed by the Narendra Modi government to defend it before the Nanavati-Shah Commission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9KlevWeYrE

Ramesh Dave: VHP's point man who planned attacks on Muslims in Kalupur and Dariyapur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DRS0WyGJVo


Tehelka, Issue of November 3, 2007

Editor's Cut
Lest We Forget Our Shame
HARINDER BAWEJA
http://tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107EditorsCut.asp

Stories by Ashish Khetan: Undercover Investigator
CONSPIRATORS & RIOTERS
First-hand accounts from the men who plotted and executed the genocide in Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Sabarkantha. Mayhem was meticulously planned and carried out by VHP-Bajrang Dal cadres across Muslim localities.
http://tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107Overview_Conspirators.asp

THE BOMB MAKERS
The VHP and the Bajrang Dal manufactured and distributed lethal weapons across the state, often with the connivance of the police.
http://tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107The_Bombmakers.asp

ROLE OF THE POLICE
Shocking accounts of how the guardians of the law colluded with the outlaws to make Gujarat's horror even worse.
http://tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107RoleOfPolice_Overview.asp

WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT MODI
Key BJP, RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal activists speak openly of how Narendra Modi blessed the anti-Muslim pogrom.
http://tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107What_They_Said.asp

LEGAL SUBVERSION
How public prosecutors ran with the hare and hunted with the hound, keeping their sympathies strictly for the accused. Government Counsel Arvind Pandya on how he hopes to subvert justice by manipulating the Nanavati-Shah Commission, set up to ascertain the truth.
http://tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107Legal_subversion.asp

DANCE OF HATE
The truth behind Naroda Patiya, the grisliest massacre of 2002. Ahmedabad police's collusion in the pogrom and its cover-up. Gory details of how former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was hacked limb by limb at Gulbarg Society, in the words of those
who did it.
http://tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107Dance_of_hate.asp

GODHRA: THE DIABOLIC LIE
How spontaneous mob fury was shown as a premeditated conspiracy by the police who
produced fake witnesses by bribing, coercion and torture.
http://tehelka.com/story_main35.asp?filename=Ne031107Godhra.asp

VOYAGER BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
Having been undercover on the shadow lines between sanity and mayhem, ASHISH KHETAN retraces a quest for truth.