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>A. Testimonies of Sexual Violence

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>WITNESSING MASS RAPE (INCLUDING MINOR GIRLS)

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>NARODA PATIA, AHMEDABAD, FEBRUARY 28, 2002[3]

>

>“The mob started chasing us with burning tyres after

>we were forced to leave Gangotri society. It was then

>that they raped many girls. We saw about 8-10 rapes.

>We saw them strip 16-year-old Mehrunissa. They were

>stripping themselves and beckoning to the girls. Then

>they raped them right there on the road. We saw a

>girl’s vagina being slit open. Then they were burnt.

>Now there is no evidence.”

>

>Source: Kulsum Bibi, Shah e Alam Camp, March 27, 2002

>

>“I saw Farzana being raped by Guddu Chara. Farzana was

>about 13 years old. She was a resident of Hussain

>Nagar. They put a saria (rod) in Farzana’s stomach.

>She was later burnt. 12 year old Noorjahan was also

>raped. The rapists were Guddu, Suresh and Naresh Chara

>and Haria. I also saw Bhawani Singh, who works in the

>State Transport Department kill 5 men and a boy.”

>

>Source: Azharuddin, 13 years. He witnessed the rapes

>while hiding on the terrace of Gangotri Society. The

>Chara basti is located just behind Jawan Nagar.

>

>The mob, which came from Chara Nagar and Kuber Nagar,

>started burning people at around 6 in the evening. The

>mob stripped all the girls of the locality, including

>my 22-year-old daughter, and raped them. My daughter

>was engaged to be married. 7 members of my family were

>burnt including my wife (aged 40), my sons (aged 18,

>14 and 7) and my daughters (aged 2, 4 and 22). My

>eldest daughter, who later died in the civil hospital,

>told me that those who raped her were wearing shorts.

>They hit her on the head and then burnt her. She died

>of 80% burn injuries.

>

>Source: Abdul Usman, Testimony recorded by Citizens

>Initiative

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>SULTANI, A RAPE survivor, SPEAKS

>

>VILLAGE ERAL, KALOL TALUKA, PANCHMAHALS DISTRICT,

>FEBRUARY 28th, 2002[4]

>

>On the afternoon of February 28th to escape the

>violent mob, about 40 of us got on to a tempo, wanting

>to escape to Kalol. My husband Feroze was driving the

>tempo. Just outside Kalol a Maruti car was blocking

>the road. A mob was lying in wait. Feroze had to

>swerve. The tempo overturned. As we got out they

>started attacking us. People started running in all

>directions. Some of us ran towards the river. I fell

>behind as I was carrying my son, Faizan. The men

>caught me from behind and threw me on the ground.

>Faizan fell from my arms and started crying. My

>clothes were stripped off by the men and I was left

>stark naked. One by one the men raped me. All the

>while I could hear my son crying. I lost count after

>3. They then cut my foot with a sharp weapon and left

>me there in that state.

>

>Source: Sultani, Kalol Camp, Panchmahals District,

>March 30, 2002

>

>Additional facts about the case:

>

>· We had heard about Sultani’s case from her

>relatives in Halol camp. The details and sequence of

>events of both testimonies matched.

>

>· Sultani has not undergone a medical examination.

>Her leg had been swollen for three weeks as a result

>of the injury inflicted by a sharp weapon, but it is

>healing now.

>

>· No FIR has been filed though a written statement

>has been submitted to the DSP. In her statement she

>names some men from the mob (Jitu Shah, PDS Shop owner

>of Delol village; Ashok Patel alias Don Dadhi of

>Ramnath village)

>

>· When we spoke with her and her sister-in-law

>they both said they were feeling numb and lost, as

>they did not know where to go from the Camp. She

>categorically stated that they could not go back to

>her village. She was terribly worried about the future

>especially her children’s. Sultani has still not been

>told that her husband had died in the attack. She

>believes he is missing.

>

>A MOTHER’S ACCOUNT OF HER DAUGHTER’S RAPE

>

>VILLAGE ERAL, KALOL TALUKA , PANCHMAHALS DISTRICT.

>MARCH 3, 2002[5]

>

>My father-in-law, a retired schoolteacher, refused to

>leave the village with the other Muslim families who

>fled to Kalol on February 28th. He believed no one

>would harm us. From the 28th about 13 members of my

>family sought refuge in various people’s houses and

>the fields. On Sunday afternoon (March 3rd) the hut we

>were hiding in was attacked. We ran in different

>directions and hid in the field. But the mob found

>some of us and started attacking. I could hear various

>members of my family shouting for mercy as they were

>attacked. I recognized two people from my village -

>Gano Baria and Sunil - pulling away my daughter

>Shabana. She screamed, telling the men to get off her

>and leave her alone. The screams and cries of Ruqaiya,

>Suhana, Shabana, begging for their izzat could clearly

>be heard. My mind was seething with fear and fury. I

>could do nothing to help my daughter from being

>assaulted sexually and tortured to death. My daughter

>was like a flower, still to experience life. Why did

>they have to do this to her? What kind of men are

>these? The monsters tore my beloved daughter to

>pieces. After a while, the mob was saying “cut them to

>pieces, leave no evidence.” I saw fires being lit.

>After some time the mob started leaving. And it became

>quiet.

>

>Source: Medina Mustafa Ismail Sheikh, Kalol camp,

>Panchmahals district, March 30, 2002

>

>Additional facts about the case:

>

>· Medina’s testimony has been corroborated by the

>other two living witnesses - Mehboob and Khushboo.

>Khushboo in her testimony also recounted how her

>grandfather (Medina’s father-in-law) and Huriben were

>killed. She also narrated how Ruqaiya’s pajamas were

>taken off and then one by one the men started “poking

>her in the lower part with their body”.

>

>· We saw a copy of Medina’s FIR, where the police

>has charged 5 persons with murder under section 302.

>Charges of rape have not been included. The FIR uses

>the colloquial phrase ‘bura kaam’ rather than the

>specific term ‘rape’. We were also given the case

>report prepared by the camp leaders. The names of some

>of the accused are mentioned in the FIR.

>

>GANG RAPE OF 25 YEAR OLD ZARINA: A HUSBAND’S ACCOUNT

>HUSSAIN NAGAR, NARODA PATIA, AHMEDABAD. FEBRUARY 28,

>2002

>It started at 9 am on February 28th. That’s when the

>mobs arrived, shouting - Mian Bhai nikalo (Bring out

>the Muslims). Many of them were wearing kesari chaddis

>(saffron shorts or underwear) The mob included boys

>from the neighbouring buildings – Gopinath Society and

>Gangotri Society. I ran out of my house with the

>entire family – mother, father, sister, sister’s

>daughter, my wife Zarina, my brother, my

>sister-in-law, and my niece…there were 11 of us. We

>all ran towards the Police chowki. The Police said,

>‘Go towards Gopinath and Gangotri’. In the melee, I

>was separated from my wife. What happened to her, she

>told me later. She tried to escape the mobs by leaping

>over a wall. But found herself in a cul-de-sac. They

>gang-raped her, and cut one arm. She was found naked.

>She was kept in the civil hospital for many days. Now

>she is recovering with her mother near the Khanpur

>darwaza.

>

>Source: Naimuddin Ibrahim Sheikh, 30 year old husband

>of Zarina. Shah-e-Alam Camp, March 27, 2002. His

>family migrated from Gulbarga in Karnataka in 1971. He

>was born in Naroda. Naimmudin’s testimony was

>corroborated by Mumtaz, who was among the women who

>found Zarina naked in the maidan.

>

>RAPE OF 13 YEAR OLD YASMIN

>

>VILLAGE DELOL, PANCHMAHALS DISTRICT. MARCH 1, 2002

>

>The extended families of Mohammad Bhai and Bhuri Behn

>– about 20 people - were chased by the mob to the

>river. Javed and another boy who managed to escape and

>hide behind a bush saw the mob kill Mohammad Bhai and

>rape Yasmin. They were about to kill the mother of the

>other boy who was hiding with him. So he screamed and

>ran out from behind the bush and was caught. He was

>made to walk around the dead bodies that were burnt

>(as if around a pyre) and he was then pushed into the

>fire.

>

>Source: Women from Delol at Halol Camp, Panchmahals

>district, March 30, 2002. Javed, Mohammad Bhai’s

>nephew, had come to Delol to help his uncle. He had

>narrated this to several of the women from Delol.

>Javed has returned to his village, Desar.

>

>STRIPPING AND BRUTALISING OF AN ENTIRE FAMILY,

>LIMKHEDA VILLAGE.

>

>DHEROL STATION, HALOL TALUKA, PANCHMAHALS DISTRICT.

>FEBRUARY 28, 2002

>

>35 year old Haseena Bibi Yasin Khan Pathan along with

>her entire extended family of 17 people ran from

>Limkheda on the morning of February 28th. At 7 am they

>caught the train from Limkheda Station, disembarked at

>Dherol Station at 10 am. That’s when they encountered

>the mob. Every one ran helter-skelter and the family

>got separated. Haseena, her husband, and young

>daughter managed to run towards Halol. Two children,

>Farzana (10 years old) and Sikandar (7 years old)

>escaped into the fields. Four boys – Ayub, (age 12),

>Mushtaq, (age 12), Mohsin, (age 10), and Shiraz (age

>7) managed to hide behind bushes, and witnessed what

>happened. There was a large crowd. They were wearing

>pant-shirt and brandishing swords. According to Ayub,

>the mob caught his sister Afsana and cousins Zebu,

>Noorjehan, Sitara, Akbar, Rehana, Yusuf, Imran, Khatun

>(Aunt) and Zareef (brother). They were all stripped

>naked and made to run towards a nearby canal. That’s

>the last Ayub saw of them. The bodies turned up

>charred near the canal the following day. He doesn’t

>recognize the mob. No FIR has been lodged.

>

>Source: Ayub, Halol Camp, Panchmahals district. The

>first part of the testimony is corroborated by his

>mother, Haseena Bibi.

>

>ACTIVISTS’ EXPERIENCES OF DEALING WITH RAPE survivors

>SHAH-E- ALAM RELIEF CAMP, AHMEDABAD.

>Naseem and Mahmooda, from nearby Millat Nagar, work

>with Sahrwaru, a voluntary organization. They are

>presently working at the Shah Alam camp. They

>testified that many women arrived stark naked at the

>camp. Men took off their shirts to cover the women’s

>nakedness. Some could barely walk because of torn

>genitals as a result of gang rapes. While talking to

>them we met Zubeida Apa, an elderly woman who has

>witnessed girls being gang raped. Her trauma was writ

>large on her face. We did not dare to rake up her pain

>by asking her more questions. We were told about Najma

>Bano who was brought to the camp unconscious, her body

>covered with bites and nail marks. She was bleeding

>profusely. Pieces of wood, which had been shoved up

>her vagina were extricated by the women who dressed

>her wounds. Najma Bano herself was too traumatized to

>recount her own story. She says she does not remember

>anything, except being chased by the men from Gangotri

>Society. Accounts like these require further

>follow-up.

>

>Source: Naseem and Mehmooda, Millat Nagar

>

>The following testimonies have been taken from

>documentation supplied to the fact-finding team by

>Citizens Initiative, Ahmedabad:

>

>MASS RAPE AND MURDER

>

>NARODA PATIA. FEBRUARY 28, 2002[6]

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>

>By now it was 6.30 in the evening. The mob caught my

>husband and hit him on his head twice with the sword.

>Then they threw petrol in his eyes and then burned

>him. My sister-in- law was stripped and raped. She had

>a three-month old baby in her lap. They threw petrol

>on her and the child was taken from her lap and thrown

>in the fire. My brother-in-law was also struck on the

>head with the sword and thrown in the fire. We were at

>the time hiding on the terrace of a building. My

>mother-in-law was unable to climb the stairs so she

>was on the ground floor with her four-year-old

>grandson. She told them to take away whatever money

>she had but to spare the children. They took away all

>the money and jewelry, then burnt the children with

>petrol. My mother-in-law was raped too. I witnessed

>all this. Unmarried girls from my street were

>stripped, raped and burnt. A 14-year-old girl was

>killed by piercing an iron rod into her stomach. The

>mayhem ended at 2.30 am. Then the ambulance came and I

>sat in it along with bodies of my husband and

>children. I have injury marks on my both my thighs and

>left hand, which were caused by the police beating. My

>husband (48 % burns), my daughter (95 % burns) both

>died in the hospital after three days. The police was

>on the spot but they were helping the mob. We fell at

>their feet but they said they were ordered from above

>not to help. Since the telephone wires were snapped we

>could not inform the fire brigade.

>

>Source: Jannat Sheikh, testimony to Citizens

>Initiative.

>

>BILKEES: ACCOUNT OF A RAPE Survivor

>

>RANDHIKPUR VILLAGE, DISTRICT DAHOD[7]. MARCH 3, 2002

>

>Twenty-one year old Bilkees was five months pregnant.

>When Muslim houses in her village were attacked on

>February 28th, by a mob comprising upper caste people

>from her own village and some outsiders, she and

>several of her family members fled. For two days they

>ran from village to village. At a mosque near Kuajher,

>her cousin Shamim, delivered a baby. But there was no

>respite for them. They had to leave immediately,

>including Shamim who could barely walk, carrying her

>newborn baby.

>

>On March 3rd we had started moving towards Panivela

>village, which was in a remote and hilly area.

>Suddenly we heard the sound of a vehicle. A truck came

>with people from our own village and outsiders too. We

>realised that they had not come to help us. They

>stopped us and then the madness started. They pulled

>my baby from my arms and threw her away. The other

>women and I were taken aside and raped. I was raped by

>three men. I was screaming all the time. They beat me

>and then left me for dead. When I regained

>consciousness I found I was alone. All around me were

>the dead bodies of my family, my baby girl, the

>newborn baby, their bodies were covered with the rocks

>and boulders used to kill them. I lay there the whole

>night and most of the next day. I do not know when I

>was conscious and when unconscious. Later I was found

>by a police squad from Limkheda police station .I was

>taken to the hospital and then brought to the Godhra

>Camp.

>

>Testimony to AIDWA and Anandi

>

>Additional facts about the case:

>

>· Her FIR has been filed and a medical examination

>done on the insistence of the District collector,

>Jayanti Ravi, even though six-days had passed. Rape

>has been confirmed.

>

>· She has named the people who killed her family

>members and those who raped her: Sailesh Bhatt,

>Mithesh Bhatt, Vijay Maurya, Pradeep Maurya, Lala

>Vakil, Lala Doctor, Naresh Maurya, Jaswant Nai and

>Govind Nai (the last three gang-raped her)

>

>· Initially all her family members were missing.

>Her father and husband have been traced to another

>camp at Dahod and her brother, Saeed, is with her in

>Godhra

>

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