https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots
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According to official figures, the riots ended with 1,044 dead, 223 missing, and 2,500 injured. Of the dead, 790 were Muslim and 254 Hindu.[13] The Concerned Citizens Tribunal Report,[14] estimated that as many as 1,926 may have been killed.[1] Other sources estimated death tolls in excess of 2,000.[15] Many brutal killings and rapes were reported on as well as widespread looting and destruction of property. Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat and later Prime Minister of India, was accused of initiating and condoning the violence, as were police and government officials who allegedly directed the rioters and gave lists of Muslim-owned properties to them.[16]
In 2012, Modi was cleared of complicity in the violence by Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court of India. The SIT also rejected claims that the state government had not done enough to prevent the riots.[17] The Muslim community was reported to have reacted with anger and disbelief.[18] In July 2013, allegations were made that the SIT had suppressed evidence.[19] That December, an Indian court upheld the earlier SIT report and rejected a petition seeking Modi's prosecution.[20] In April 2014, the Supreme Court expressed satisfaction over the SIT's investigations in nine cases related to the violence, and rejected a plea contesting the SIT report as "baseless".[21]
Though officially classified as a communalist riot, the events of 2002 have been described as a pogrom by many scholars,[22][23] with some commentators alleging that the attacks had been planned, with the attack on the train was a "staged trigger" for what was actually premeditated violence.[24][25] Other observers have stated that these events had met the "legal definition of genocide,"[26] or referred to them as state terrorism or ethnic cleansing.[27][28][29] Instances of mass violence include the Naroda Patiya massacre that took place directly adjacent to a police training camp;[30] the Gulbarg Society massacre where Ehsan Jafri, a former parliamentarian, was among those killed; and several incidents in Vadodara city.[31] Scholars studying the 2002 riots state that they were premeditated and constituted a form of ethnic cleansing, and that the state government and law enforcement were complicit in the violence that occurred