planned Muslim genocide or pogrom?

Gujarat is a state that is 88% Hindu and 10% Muslim, ruled by a pro-Hindu government.

"Gujarat, the only major state in India to have a BJP government has, for some years, been the petri dish in which Hindu fascism has been fomenting an elaborate political experiment. In Gujarat, the initial results were put on public display.

Within hours of the Godhra outrage, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal put into motion a meticulously planned pogrom against the Muslim community. Officially, the number of dead in Gujarat is 1800. Independent reports put the figure at well over 3,000. More than a hundred and seventy thousand people, driven from their homes, now live in refugee camps. Muslim women were stripped, gang-raped, parents were bludgeoned to death in front of their children. Two hundred and forty dargahs and 180 masjids were destroyed—in Ahmedabad the tomb of Wali Gujarati, the founder of the modern Urdu poem, was demolished and paved over in the course of a night. The tomb of the musician Ustad Faiyaz Ali Khan was desecrated and wreathed in burning tyres. Arsonists burned and looted shops, homes, hotels, textiles mills, buses and private cars. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have lost their jobs, families, homes and lives."

- Arundhati Roy is a female Indian novelist, writer and activist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel and the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize 2002.