"_Who_ started the fire, was the question. The outside of train
carriages is metal and can't burn. Mohamedans thew inflammable liquid
inside the train, bolted the doors from outside and then lit the fires.
How is that incompatible with the evidence?!"
Details here don't support above:
Indian panel: train burning an accident
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) - The burning of a train carrying Hindu pilgrims, which
triggered religious riots that killed some 1,000 people, was caused by
an accidental fire and not Muslims as charged by Hindu nationalists,
an inquiry panel said.
The February 2002 blaze in the western city of Godhra in Gujarat state
killed 60 people and led to religious riots in which mostly Muslims
were killed. The Hindu nationalist state government was accused of
ignoring the killings.
Hindu nationalist leaders have since tried to explain the killings of
Muslims by accusing them of burning the train with gasoline.
However, retired judge U.C.Banerjee, heading a railroad department
inquiry into the train burning, said Monday: "The fire ... can at this
stage be ascribed as an 'accidental fire.'"
The railroad inquiry is separate from an investigation by a larger
government commission and an ongoing criminal trial.
Judge Banerjee said Monday that he found it "unbelievable" that the
devotees armed with tridents "would allow to get themselves burnt
without a murmur" by a person entering the train car from inside.
"The possibility of an inflammable liquid having been used is
completely ruled out as there was first a smell of burning, followed
by dense smoke and flames thereafter," the report said.
Hindu mobs began attacking Muslims across the state after the Godhra
attack. Human rights groups and India's media accused the Gujarat
government of doing little to stop the riots.
Gujarat's police closed thousands of cases after the bloodshed, saying
they had no evidence to prosecute. However, they have been since
ordered reopened by the country's Supreme Court.
The ruling is likely to be used by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's
ruling coalition against the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party,
or BJP, especially in upcoming elections in three states.
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