23 found guilty of murdering Muslims in India's Gujarat state

Sporadic rioting continued in the state for at least three months in what was considered one of India's worst outbreaks of sectarian violence in recent years and one which activists referred to as 'ethnic cleansing' and an 'anti-Muslim pogrom'.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party that is also the main Opposition to the federal government, was held responsible for failing to stop the violence.

Many activists, backed by media reports and human rights groups accused Modi of actively encouraging the rioting as a consequence of which he was denied entry to the US.

The Ode massacre was one of 10 key incidents being probed by a Supreme Court-appointed special investigation team set up in 2008 after Modi was blamed for interfering with riot cases registered in Gujarat by obstructing investigations.

In November 2011, a court sentenced 31 people for burning, much like in Ode 33 Muslims to death in another village in the state.

Last February, 31 people, many of them Muslims were found guilty of setting fire to the Hindu pilgrim train at Godhra whilst 63 others were ac quitted.

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