United States: Narendra Modi and Sangh Parivar Organizations
Continuing International Concern
There has been non-partisan support in the United States for human rights in Gujarat. Former President Clinton condemned the events in Gujarat, and Congressman Joseph R. Pitts (R-PA) addressed the United States House of Representatives on June 18, 2002, condemning the premeditated brutality in Gujarat and acknowledging insufficient action on the part of the United States. Pitts also conveyed that Hindu extremist groups receive some of their funds from charities in the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2003, the Commission on International Religious Freedom of the United States State Department recommended that India be designated a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). Although this recommendation was rejected by Secretary of State Colin Powell,[75] the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom's annual reports continue to reflect concern over the abuses of the Sangh,76 and again recommended that India be named a CPC in 2004.
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