Bloody riots 20 years ago BBC documentary blames Modi

A recent BBC documentary that is being shared online is being actively suppressed by the Indian government. In the two-part series, Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, is discussed in relation to violent riots that occurred in the Gujarat state almost 20 years ago.

The first segment of the documentary, which aired in the UK last week, was referred to by the Foreign Office as a "propaganda piece" that displayed a "colonial mindset.". Even in India, the BBC has not made the video accessible.

Kanchan Gupta, a government adviser, claims that New Delhi has made arrangements for the removal of links to the documentation from Twitter as well as videos of the documentation from YouTube. The consultant claims that a 2021 information technology law resulted in the deletion of fifty tweets that contained links in total.

Following that, opposition supporters criticized the government's "censorship.". Modi was Gujarat's chief minister in 2002, and his administration was criticized for not doing enough to combat violence.

Modi was accused of not doing enough to stop the violence at the time, according to the documentary, which reiterates those claims. Additionally, according to eyewitnesses, during a meeting with senior officials, the current prime minister ordered the police not to prosecute the violent criminals.

The fire that broke out in a number of train cars carrying Hindu pilgrims close to Godhra railway station served as the catalyst for the riots. There is still disagreement over what started the fire, which claimed the lives of 59 people.

A Muslim attack is alleged to have targeted the train carrying pilgrims, according to one account. After that, Hindu mobs began to attack Muslim residents of those areas.

More than 1000 people were savagely murdered, the majority of whom were Muslims. The allegations against Modi have been well-known for a while, and they contributed, among other things, to his years-long exclusion from entry into the United States and the United Kingdom.

The top court in India cleared him of all charges in 2012. The Court of Appeal supported the judgment last year.

The claims are now backed up by passages from a previously unreleased British government investigation report under the heading "Signs of ethnic cleansing" in the supporting documentation. Modi is referred to as being "directly accountable.".

The report also mentions a "climate of impunity" that the state government has fostered. A radical hindu organization with ties to the RSS, a religious-nationalist mass organization to which Modi has belonged since he was a young boy and which is closely associated with his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is specifically to blame.

The report, which was written at the time and backed up the claims, was deemed "very thorough" by the former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. According to the BBC's investigative report, the systematic violence campaign exhibits "all the characteristics of ethnic cleansing.".

The intention was to drive Muslims out of Hindu neighborhoods. Politics was the driving force behind the violence that was used.

Even more than was previously reported, it's size. The routine rape of Muslim women falls under this category as well.

The film refers to a "pogrom," according to an unnamed diplomat who is thought to be one of the report's authors. There are clear signs that Modi asked the police to stay out of the situation.

According to police sources, this is false. Human rights advocates have also lamented an increase in violence against Muslims and other minorities across the nation since Modi and the Hindu nationalist BJP took office.

The first segment of the documentary, which aired in the UK last week, was referred to by the Foreign Office as a "propaganda piece" that displayed a "colonial mindset.