Indian Interior Minister ignites anger over earlier massacre of Muslims

A wave of anger erupted on social media platforms in India during the past hours, after circulating a new statement by Interior Minister Amit Shah about one of the massacres that Muslims were subjected to in the country, media outlets reported.

Shah said – during one of the electoral conferences of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party – that the government “taught the rioters a lesson” in the Gujarat incident in 2002.

The act of violence in Gujarat is one of the worst religious riots in India, in which more than 1,000 people were killed, most of them Muslims and displaced tens of thousands of Muslims, and it occurred after a fire broke out in a train carrying Hindus.

Reports mentioned that in 2011, a former senior officer of Gujarat – Sanjiv Bhat – filed a lawsuit accusing Narendra Modi of being behind the massacre of Muslims in 2002.

In the lawsuit he filed, Bhat said that Modi in an official meeting with the police had said that the Muslim community should be taught “a lesson” because of the incident of the train, a statement similar to that of the Minister of Interior.