During 2002, the British High Commissioner in India sent a report to the Foreign Office in London that Narendra Modi was directly responsible for the riots in Gujarat.
This told by former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to Indian media The Wire during a special interview.
Jack Straw said that according to the British High Commission report, Narendra Modi met senior police officers on February 27 and ordered them not to interfere during the riots.
The report stated that the massacre in Gujarat was genocide.
Jack Straw said that I spoke to the Vajpayee government and the then Indian foreign minister Jaswant Singh about this report.
A documentary from the BBC claimed a team sent by the British government to investigate the 2002 riots in the western state of Gujarat in India found Narendra Modi, who was the chief minister at the time, “directly responsible for a climate of impunity” that led to the pogrom.
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Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has special access to political and other issues in India.
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He says that he is well aware of India’s communal problems, so he disappointed during 2002 in Gujarat, but it was not a surprise to him.