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The Indian Government has taken "much action" against those behind the Gujarat violence but it was not reflected due to the "agonisingly slow" legal system in the country, US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Christina Rocca has said.
"There have been a number of arrests and prosecutions," she said yesterday responding to questions on the Gujarat violence during her testimony before the a sub-committee on Asia and Pacific.
"The legal system in India is agonisingly slow and that gives the impression that nothing is happening. But the fact of the matter is that they did take action and they are continuing to take action," she said.
"This was a stain on their secular record. And no one is more concerned about it, I believe, than the Indians themselves," she added.
The United States, Rocca said, has spoken out loudly and often on the terrible events of Gujarat, and it did not in any way get a pass from anywhere in the world, much less from the Bush Administration.
But it also was a cause of great concern to the Indian Government as well and they have expressed great concern and sadness and were focused on it very much internally, especially the Prime Minister, that this kind of activity and this kind of event never be repeated, she said.
She described India as "a democracy
where a discussion of all these concerns takes place". She said the Government
is putting together policies to make sure it does not happen again." -
PTI
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