In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
NATION WIDE PHONE & FAX CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE GUJARAT CARNAGE	“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.” - Testimony of victim Abdul Usman -       Source: “How has the Gujarat Massacre affected Minority Women” – Report by Women’s Commission fact-finding team.
If not You, Who? If not Now, When?	The state sponsored rape, torture, burning alive and ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Gujarat is Continuing unabated… The US State Department has so far provided a Muted reaction to this carnage BUT Have you given them any reason to act? If YOU don’t protest! Why should they?
CALL THE US STATE DEPARTMENT AND DEMAND AN UNEQUIVOCAL CONDEMNATION
Please register your protest with the US State Department’s for its inaction and muted reaction to this tragedy. Call and fax the following State Department offices and demand: q An explanation of their inaction against this horrendous crime against humanity q Condemn the genocide of helpless Indian Muslims in unequivocal terms q Put direct pressure on the Indian Government to rehabilitate the displaced refugees q Declare the World Hindu Council (VHP) and Bajrang Dal, the main groups responsible for the planned massacres of Muslims as foreign terrorist organizations and freeze their assets.
Special line established for Gujarat                              Tel: (202) 647-6575 South Asian Affairs, India Desk, Theodore Andrews      Tel:  (202) 647-1450            Fax: (202) 736-4463 Bureau of Human Rights, Johnny Paz                           Tel:  (202) 647-1458           Fax: (202) 647-5283 International Religious Freedom, Paul Martin                 Tel:  (202) 647-1422           Fax: (202) 647-3302 Office of the Secretary, Colin Powell                             Tel:  (202) 647-5291           Fax: (202) 261-8577 Please follow up your phone calls with fax letter expressing your demands and concerns
MORE TALKING POINTS
q Since last 3 months, Right Wing Hindu Fundamentalists led by the World Hindu Council leaders are orchestrating a systematic campaign of torture, gang rape, killing, flaying and burning alive Muslims, destroying Muslim houses and business and economically boycotting them to the extent that there are now over 110,000 Muslims living in ghettoized refugee camps in which more than 2000 women are reported to be pregnant. Over 2000 people have already been killed since the pogrom started. q The US as the only super power and principal signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Charter, has the moral and ethical responsibility to promote peace and equality and respect of human rights and religious freedom for the oppressed minority Muslim community of India. q As a result of the recent violence, over 110,000 people, most of them Muslims, now live in squalid relief camps, after having their homes and businesses destroyed, or out of fear for their safety. According to Human Rights Watch, the state government has failed to provide adequate and timely humanitarian assistance to these people. q According to Human Rights Watch, some police officers led the victims directly into the hands of their killers. Fundamentalist Hindu mobs used voter lists and other information obtained through the local municipalities. In some instances, top police officials who sought to protect Muslims have been removed from positions of command. European Union (EU) investigations found evidence of a "systematic" targeting and destruction of the Muslim economy and involvement of state ministers. State officials in Gujarat were directly involved in the killings of hundreds and possibly thousands of Muslim citizens of India. According to the EU report, these attacks were not spontaneous, but were planned months in advance with extensive participation of the police and the state government. q The VHP and Bajrang Dal have a history of violence and intimidation against Muslims and other religious minorities in India. They were also responsible for burning alive of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two kids, in January, 1999. q The VHP agenda, calls for Indian Muslims to either leave Islam or leave India, and the premeditated violence clearly fit the State Department definition of terrorism, which is “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.” We therefore demand that these groups immediately be placed on the State Department list of terrorist organizations. The VHP, is a registered non-profit charitable organization in the US. q The ruling BJP party of India has been accused of seeking to minimize and cover-up the complicity of the VHP in recent violence and Gujarat, and has expressed its sympathies with the VHP program. The BJP should be sternly reprimanded by the US for its sympathy with Indian terrorist organizations
SAMPLE LETTER
Sir/Madam, I am deeply concerned by the continuing violence against Muslims in the Indian state of Gujarat, that has led to the massacre of over 2000 innocent civilians and over 110,000 have been rendered homeless. It has been established by several independent media observers including the European Union Commission and the US based Human Rights Watch, that these attacks were planned genocide of Muslims carried out by members of the India’s right wing fascist organizations namely the World Hindu Council (Vishwa Hindu Parishad [VHP]), the Bajarang Dal(BD) and the Rashtriya Swamsevak Sangh(RSS) with extensive police participation and in close cooperation with officials of the Gujarat State Government. In view of this grim situation and colossal toll on human lives, I call upon you to urge the Indian Government to respect its secular constitution and take strong and decisive steps to stop the violence against its Muslim minorities, arrange to provide immediate and adequate relief to the victims and move swiftly to bring the perpetrators of the violence to justice. I also urge you to declare the groups responsible for these widespread violence against civilians, as terrorist organizations and shutdown their offices and financial infrastructure here in the United States. I believe it is imperative that the United States led global campaign against terrorism should deny groups such as the VHP, BD and the RSS from using the resources and financial networks in the United States in carrying out the genocide and ethnic cleansing of minorities in India. With concern and hope of immediate action from your office, Sincerely, Your Name
For more information, please visit http://www.imacweb.org This event is sponsored by the Indian Muslim Affairs Committee (IMAC) [A Global-Peace Initiative]