#India: PM Modi vs the BBC with regard to the Gujarat massacres 2002. . Sadanand Dhume, AEI, WSJOpinion
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#India: PM Modi vs the BBC with regard to the Gujarat massacres 2002. . Sadanand @Dhume, AEI, WSJOpinion
https://www.wsj.com/articles/modi-is-hurting-himself-brawling-with-the-bbc-documentary-india-censorship-ban-discorse-news-media-11675375768?mkt_tok=NDc1LVBCUS05NzEAAAGJxf-wxFjNmxIv9J2Xk010A1IF5-LeeyI-3xLx7Dgyf8wxMlLS4QmQWAWT4yFOEsd0gkeeZsiL89bA_8f1IC09ZD-sY0sHFxoNVsLr0izlwOywNg
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| 0:56.0 | For the Wall Street Journal editorial board, it's taken me back to that moment, |
| 1:00.0 | because these many years later, more than 20 years later now, |
| 1:04.0 | the attack on the train and the subsequent violence that led to |
| 1:10.0 | Southernan's reporting, a thousand deaths, always in the context of a man |
| 1:16.0 | I did not recognize at the time, but is now the very powerful and effective and popular leader of India. |
| 1:23.0 | Norenta Modi, Southernan, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:27.0 | I just wanted to make sure I conveyed the mystery of what happened in Gujarat in 2002, |
| 1:36.0 | because your column speaks to an investigation by the BBC all these years later |
| 1:42.0 | that is very much upset, Mr. Modi. |
| 1:45.0 | I understand, but it's hard to recover what it is about Gujarat |
| 1:50.0 | and what it is about the BJP that is so controversial, both inside and outside of India. |
| 1:57.0 | My memory at the time is being told that there were radical elements in Gujarat |
| 2:02.0 | who believed in violence and intimidation and separatism. |
| 2:06.0 | In Gujarat, those were troubled times. |
| 2:09.0 | The world was in the first days of reacting to the attack on New York and Washington. |
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