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By Hasan Suroor
Mr. Straw said that when he met the Home Minister, L.K.Advani, and the Foreign Minister, Jaswant Singh, during his two recent visits to New Delhi he told them it was important that the perpetrators of violence were brought to justice. He shared the "huge anxiety and distress" caused to Britain's Muslim community particularly over the killings of two British Muslims in Gujarat. "My staff in New Delhi and Mumbai have been assiduous in following up the cases of British citizens who died in the violence," he said speaking at a reception, organised by the Indian Muslim Federation, for Lord Patel of Blackburn on Sunday. Condemning the violence, he said: "Albeit Hindus and Muslims both lost their lives though in different numbers, communal violence is something everyone has to fight against." He said he was in India the day the Godhra incident took place in which "50 to 60 Hindus were massacred" in a train. Lord Patel, who has been in the forefront of the campaign on Gujarat, said that the vast majority of Hindus in Gujarat and India were opposed to the kind of violence that had taken place.
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