MT Desk: International organisations like Genocide Watch and UN-affiliated bodies have issued significant warnings, asserting that parts of the Indian state are in an advanced process of genocide against its religious minority communities, especially Muslims. Genocide Watch has declared a `Genocide Emergency` in India, assessing that the country has already crossed eight out of ten stages in its warning framework. Dr Stanton, who predicted the Rwandan genocide, has repeatedly warned that "genocide may well happen in India" unless the international community confronts the ruling Hindutva ideology. He has drawn parallels between the situation in India and the genocidal campaigns against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
In Modi`s India the oppression of 250 million Muslims is taking place as part of a structural programme. The RSS operating through its death squads and political wings is the platform of nourishing Muslim hate; the state under BJP is the executioner; the bureaucracy, including the judiciary, is the tool; and the financing is being done by corporate India. The masses are led by Hindutva gangs through so-called street justice and the majority of Hindus have either become silent spectators or zealot bhakts, who celebrate this oppression.
Mira Kamdar had done an incisive analysis of the horrific 2002 Gujarat Massacre. She had highlighted that the perpetrators included large numbers of educated, middle-class individuals, doctors, engineers and businessmen and that middle-class women openly cheered on the attackers. Hindu extremism has become a mainstream phenomenon in India, no longer confined to the fringes of society.
Fast forward to twenties, during President Trump`s visit to India in 2020, Mira Kamdar penned an article in The Atlantic. She had described the events in Delhi as a pogrom. At the very moment, Trump sat down for a meal with Modi, Hindus in the same city were beating and shooting Muslims.
Mira Kamdar believes that the Delhi police, who answer directly to Amit Shah, either passively watched the violence or actively assisted the mobs. Social media showed videos of officers breaking surveillance cameras and mocking injured, bleeding Muslim men lying on the ground, and filming them with their own phones. The attacks recalled the 2002 Gujarat riots, when Modi served as chief minister and authorities failed to intervene in bloodshed that claimed around 2,000 lives, most of them Muslim.
More recently one can witness the connivance of Indian Judiciary in this state oppression. The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that the disputed 11th century Kamal Maula Mosque in Dhar is a Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Saraswati. The court annulled a 2003 order by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) that had allowed Muslims to offer namaz at the site every Friday. The court suggested that the Muslim community could approach the state government for the allocation of separate land in Dhar district to build a mosque.
Heard of it before? Yes, it`s a similar verdict as that of Babri Mosque.