Crime Against Humanity
Volume I An inquiry into the carnage in Gujarat
List of Incidents and Evidence
By Concerned Citizens Tribunal -Gujarat 2002
Incidents of Post-Godhra Violence
Attacks on Christians
During the Gujarat carnage it was not only Muslims who were attacked but alsoChristians. Christians were the target of BJP, VHP, BD, RSS goon squads right from’98 until ’99. (See section on Build-Up in Gujarat, Volume II) On March 2, 2002, a missionbeing run at Sanjeli by the Divine Word society was ransacked and burnt by RSS andVHP activists.
Father Chachkochan and his companion brother Gnanarul were at-tacked with stones by a mob at around 2 p.m. The attackers returned at 6 p.m, brokeopen the house, looted and set fire to the building. The two victims managed to reachthe Jhalod Mission by walking a few kilometres and then getting a lift. Then, theIndian missionary society compound at Dhudia (which is close to the Limkheda talukaheadquarters near Godhra) was ransacked. Sixty children were chased out and prop-erty looted, also on March 2.
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On the day of the Bharat bandh on March 2, the Mahatma Gandhi school run by the Catholic Mission at Rajkot began its day not know-ing about the bandh. RSS and VHP activists reached there and terrorised the schoolinto closing down.
