India preventing probe into Gujarat riots: Amnesty
AFP [ MONDAY, JULY 22, 2002 2:51:26 PM ] NEW DELHI: Rights group Amnesty International said on Monday that New Delhi had effectively refused its delegates access to Gujarat, where they wanted to investigate recent massacres and other human rights violations. The Indian government had failed to issue visas by a deadline of July 12 as agreed with its representatives in London, the group said in a statement. "Amnesty International believes that the refusal of the Indian government to grant access to the state will only reinforce the concerns that the government of Gujarat and the state police might have been accomplices in ... allowing (the violence) to occur and could be now attempting to cover up involvement of their officials."
