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Where is the proof?
Where is the proof?
Author: Don Patrick, Ooty
Publication: The Hindu (Letters
to the Editor)
Date: April 22, 2002
Sir,- Kuldip Nayyar stated in the
Opinion column (April 16) that the Gujarat attacks were planned. Here is
his statement, ``This scheme of exterminating a particular community had
been prepared long before Godhra and would have been carried out even without
the gruesome Godhra incident''.
The following questions are for
Mr. Nayyar and he owes it to the public and concerned citizens to answer
the questions. 1) What was the scheming, 2) When was it prepared? 3) By
whom? 4) Who was having the plan until now, 5) From where did he come in
possession of the plan? 6) Why did he not share the information through
your columns earlier, as he is doing now? 7) Why should he wait for one
long month to ``unveil'' it? 8) If, he was in possession of the secret
plan he ought to have shared it with the authorities and the intelligence.
Did he do it? 9) If so, when and with whom did he share it? 10) What was
the reaction of the authorities? If he did not share the information with
the authorities what was the reason? Failure to do so is synonymous with
conniving with the criminals, 11) He should be asked to swear before a
sitting Supreme Court judge owing to the nature of his allegation and the
horrendous nature of atrocities, 12) He should be thoroughly interrogated
whether he was really in possession of the information, 13) From where
did he get it? Who was the source? 14) Who was the informant, 15) Was it
from across the border? Alternatively, from within India? Can he substantiate
all this with any proof? 16) In France and other European countries those
who are in possession of sensitive information about the impending danger
to the state and its citizens must share it with the authorities promptly.
Failure to do so will invite the wrath of the state. If Mr. Nayyar had
`shared the secret information' before the Godhra incident he would have
prevented the carnage that followed. Since he has failed as per his admission,
he owes an explanation to the nation.
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