FACT seeks to bring attention to forgotten or neglected crises and to pressure governments and international organizations to help and protect refugees, displaced people and other victims of terror based conflicts.

FACT, Foundation Against Continuing Terrorism, was started in 2003 by François Gautier, a French journalist and writer who has been covering for 25 years India and South Asia. All throughout his reporting years, he noticed that most western correspondents were projecting the problems, warts and shortcomings of India, but never its positive side. He also felt that the terrorism faced by the Hindus, the majority community of India, is never highlighted.

Hence when Francois Gautier got a journalism prize (Natchiketa award of excellence in journalism) by the Prime Minister of India, he used the prize money to mount a series of exhibitions highlighting the plight of Hindus today and throughout the ages. The first one dealt with the ethnic cleansing of the Kashmiri Hindus, four hundred thousand of them having become refuges in their own country .

Create awareness. Awareness on terrorism affecting India and the world. To educate the world, particularly western nations, about the kind of terrorism affecting India. We find, for instance, that the United States or Israel, or even Russia, who have all been hit hard by terrorism, are totally ignorant of the sufferings India has endured at the hands of the same fundamentalism.

Trigger action. Action against Terror perpetrators in Kashmir, Bangladesh, North east India and other places. Amnesty International, The UN, UNESCO, International Human Rights organizations, have not cared to take any action upon the human rights violations perpetrated against India. The plight of the Kasmiri Pandits, or the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, or the terrorizing of Hindus in the North-East at the hands of Christian separatist groups, are not included in any of the agendas of these organizations. We intend to remedy to that.

Indian History museum. The FACT museum would unveil the rich heritage from Vedic ages to the current day and India Tomorrow. Also for the first time atrocities committed in India against Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Christians would be presented.

India has terribly suffered in the last fifteen centuries at the hands of invaders, be they Muslims, Christians, or even Chinese recently. No nation can move forward, unless it faces squarely its past. As His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of the Art of Living Foundation, pointed out recently, " the courage to remember, helps us not to repeat the same mistakes and to build a better future for our children ". Hence, FACT would like to build an Indian museum where all the atrocities committed in India against Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Christians, will be depicted, but also where all the greatness of India, past, present and future will be projected.

Contributions to be made in the name of FACT or 'Foundation Against Continuing Terrorism', and sent to

Francois Gautier,
41 Jorbagh (1st floor),
New Delhi 110003. India.