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| Gujarat riots: India court jails 11 for life over Gulbarg massacre | Gujarat riots: India court jails 11 for life over Gulbarg massacre |
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| A court in India has sentenced 11 people to life in prison for their roles in a notorious massacre during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat. | A court in India has sentenced 11 people to life in prison for their roles in a notorious massacre during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat. |
| Of the 24 people convicted for the so-called Gulbarg Society killings, 12 were jailed for seven years while one man was sentenced to 10 years. | |
| During the attack, 69 people were hacked and burned to death by a mob. | |
| More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in the riots, sparked by a fire on a train that killed 60 Hindu pilgrims. | More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in the riots, sparked by a fire on a train that killed 60 Hindu pilgrims. |
| Critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was the state chief minister at the time, say he did little to stop the riots. | |
| The special court in Ahmedabad called the incident the "darkest day in the history of civil society". | |
| However, Zakia Jafri, the wife of Ehsan Jafri, a prominent Muslim politician and a former Congress party MP, who was among those killed, has expressed disappointment at the sentencing. | |
| "I was there when Ehsaan Jafri was killed, it's not justice at all," she told reporters. | |
| Survivors of the Gulbarg massacre say he fired his gun in self-defence as the mob attacked the complex. | |
| Mrs Jafri says her husband called Mr Modi for help but it never came. |