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“We Have No Orders To Save You”
State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat
A mass grave in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, in which sixty-one bodies - thirty-four of women and twenty-seven of children - are buried. Since February 27, 2002, more than 850 people have been killed in communal violence in the state of Gujarat, most of them Muslims. Unofficial estimates put the death toll as high as 2,000. The attacks against Muslims in Gujarat have been actively supported by state government officials and by the police. Police told Muslims, "We don't have any orders to save you." © 2002 Human Rights Watch
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. SUMMARY
II. RECOMMENDATIONS- To
the State Government of Gujarat
To the Government of India
To India's Donors and Trading Partners
To International Lending Institutions
To International Humanitarian Organizations
To United Nations Agencies
- State
and Police Participation and Complicity
Mass
Gravesites and the Collection of Bodies
Attacks on Women
The Effect on Children and Young People
Destruction of Mosques and Dargahs
Looting
The Role of the Media The Government of Gujarat's Response
- The
Sangh Parivar
Gujarat: A Hindutva Laboratory
A Campaign of Hate Communal Violence and Attacks Against Christians in Gujarat
- Conditions
in the Camps
Protection and Security of IDPs Access to Humanitarian Assistance
- Medical
Care and Psychological and Social Services
U.N. Agencies and International Humanitarian Organizations
Rehabilitation and Return
APPENDIX B: Pamphlet Calling for Economic Boycott of Muslims