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David Cameron & Ed Miliband – Stop the Visit of Narendra Modi to UK; Remember the 2002 Gujarat genocide: says Online Petition
August 21, 2013 | By Sikh Siyasat Bureau
London, United Kingdom (August 21, 2013): As per information available with the Sikh Siyasat News (SSN), certain activists have started an online petition opposing prospective visit of India’s Gujrat state’s Chief Minister Narendra Modi to the UK.
Narendra Modi, CM of Gujrat
It is notable that some UK politicians had recently sent an invitation to Narendra Modi, inviting him to visit the UK. Modi is Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA)’s prime-ministerial candidate for 2014 general elections in India. Narendra Modi is accused for his patronage to the 2002 genocide of Muslim minority population in the state of Gujrat.
The petition launched at Change.Org, that has secured more than 7,000 signatures, reads as follows:
We the undersigned write to express our concern at the invitation to address the House of Commons issued to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi by the Labour Friends of India and the Conservative Friends of India. We strongly believe that Narendra Modi, who is responsible for the 2002 genocidal attacks in which over 2,000 men, women and children from Gujarat’s Muslim minority community were systematically killed, must not be allowed to visit the UK. Modi’s past visits to the UK have been used to raise extensive funds and support for communal violence, and a visit at this time when Modi is launching a campaign to become India’s next Prime Minister, and continues to try to gain votes using openly fascistic and anti-minority rhetoric, would be particularly dangerous.
In the wake of the 2002 genocide and the extensive documentation of Modi’s role in co-ordinating and sponsoring it. the UK, other EU, and US governments were compelled to distance themselves from Modi and the Gujarat government. However recently we have seen the British government take steps to rehabilitate Modi, as evidenced by meetings between the British High Commissioner and Modi in Ahmedabad. This puts the interests of British corporates wishing to invest in Gujarat ahead of any concerns for human rights and justice, and makes a mockery of the rights of the three British citizens who were murdered during the genocide and whose families are yet to receive justice. We condemn this collusion in Modi’s attempts to deny his role as a mass murderer. We demand that the invitation to Modi is withdrawn and he is refused a visa to the UK.
The petition may be viewed online at: https://www.change.org/petitions/david-cameron-and-ed-miliband-stop-the-visit-of-mass-murderer-narendra-modi-to-the-uk
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