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>A. Testimonies of Sexual Violence
>
>
>WITNESSING MASS RAPE (INCLUDING MINOR GIRLS)
>
>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
>
>
>
>
>
>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]
>
>
>
>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
>
>
>=====
>"And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allâh, and
for those weak, illtreated and oppressed among men, women, and children,
whose cry is: "Our Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are
oppressors; and raise for us from You one who will protect, and raise for
us from You one who will help." Qur'an: Surah Al-nisa Ayah 75)
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