By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Ahmedabad: On the Gujarat visit of Asma Jahangir, special rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights, the Movement for Secular Democracy (MSD) submitted a memorandum on the violation of human rights of minorities in the state.
The memorandum talks about the violation of human rights, civil rights and democratic rights of minorities including Muslims, Christians and tribals under the Narendra Modi-led BJP regime. It says hundreds of victims of the 2002 pogrom are yet to get justice and to be rehabilitated. Hundreds of those victims are still forced to live in camps without any government support. As for the culprits, many of them are still at large, others yet to be punished as hundreds of cases are still pending.
Not only Muslims, Christians and tribals are also being targeted by the establishment, the memorandum says. They are scared of the BJP government. The forest rights of tribals are being curtailed. In the recent past, two tribals were killed in police firing in Antarsuba of Sabarkantha district. Many were injured and many others arrested and false cases were filed against them. There is a reign of terror unleashed by the police and the forest officials, the memorandum says.
MSD in its memorandum says crime against women is on rise in the state. Recently, the sexual exploitation of a girl student in Patan P.T.C College shocked the people of the state. Every attempt was made to bury the Patan sexual exploitation case by hook or by crook by some ministers, says the memorandum.