Whats common between Orissa and Gujarat?

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In both states certain Hindu mobs went on a mass rampage against non-Hindus in retaliation to a stray incident.

In both cases, nobody really knew about the real cause of the stray incident.

In both cases Hindu "mobs" were convinced about the cause and angered enough to systematically carry out attacks on non-Hindu groups for days.

In both cases the government being able to do little to curb it.

Both cases were called "spontaneous" reactions. I find it hard to believe that a spontaneous reaction could carry on for 5 days.

In Gujarat, few years ago, a mass massacre of innocents was carried out simply for being Muslim.

In Orissa innocent people are being subjugated just for being Christian.
read about it here.






Comments

Abhi said…
I won't completely compare both the situations equally. I'm living in orissa for the past ten months and to me nobody has shown any differences. Also in gujrat the administration looked on when the mobs went on rampage. Here the police couldn't reach the site on time to do anything. Policemen are a rarity in this part of the country. Maybe coz i'm too used to see them in tvm city.
3 September 2008 at 11:50
Pooja Nair said…
Police could not reach or deliberately did not reach?

We never know.

After all, the same extremist groups are behind both situations.

I came across this blog:
orissaburning.blogspot.com
3 September 2008 at 15:15
mathew said…
ultimately all this violence is instigated by someone..i dont think humans really hate each other to indulge in such violence...i hope we realise that some point of time that politicans are just using us for their own personal gains..
3 September 2008 at 17:05
dharmabum said…
its sad, but my comment has to do with a different, yet related issue - i never knew about the killing of that guy - i don't get his name - the one who was supposedly protesting religious conversions - i didn't read about that in the headlines u know.

how have u been?
4 September 2008 at 09:56
Pooja Nair said…
I can see that you are only trying to see both sides of the story...

Thats a good thing dharmabum.

But, it makes us realize:

His campaign against conversions never made headlines either.

Neither did the supposed "forcefull re-conversions" in Orrisa make headlines.

In any case, the mainstream media may only be underplaying the terror situation in Orrisa if you are to go by the blog i came across...

cheers!
5 September 2008 at 11:58
Pooja Nair said…
Mathew you are right.

We, regular people, must never forget that these are games politicians play for their personal gains..
5 September 2008 at 12:18
uhu said…
"We, regular people, must never forget that these are games politicians play for their personal gains" couldn't agree with you more!
6 September 2008 at 19:16
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