Netivism 2: Activists in America Critique Gujarat

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In February 2002, Hindu right mobs killed more than a thousand Muslims, displaced many more, and raped even pregnant Muslim women in the Indian state of Gujarat. The local government, headed by a Hindu right ideologue, Narendra Modi, did nothing. Two years later, some Indian-American groups invited Modi to preside over their meetings and lecture at Madison Square Garden. Here's how secular Indian-American activists used the Internet to get the U.S. State Department to deny Modi a visa.