Dr. Gregory Stanton, the founder of Genocide Watch, who foretold the genocide in Rwanda years before it occurred in 1994, has warned of a coming genocide of Muslims in India, equating the country’s condition under the Narendra Modi regime to events in Myanmar and Rwanda.
Dr. Stanton made these remarks at a congressional briefing organised by the Indian American Muslim Council, titled “Call for Genocide of Indian Muslims.” He was one of five panellists selected to speak at the event.
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The Haridwar hate speeches & the mounting evidence of intolerance has led Dr. Gregory Stanton of @genocide_watch to predict that a genocide against Muslims could take place in India.
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“Narendra Modi was Gujarat’s chief minister at the time, yet he did nothing. Indeed, there is a lot of proof that he supported those atrocities,” he claimed, adding that Modi, India’s current prime minister, has used “anti-Muslim, Islamophobic language.” “in order to broaden his electoral base
According to Dr. Stanton, Modi accomplished this by abolishing Indian-occupied Kashmir’s special autonomous status in 2019 and passing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act the same year.
A dharma sansad (religious assembly) of Hindu ascetics was convened at Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India, in December 2021, during which hate speeches calling for the genocide of Muslims and other minorities in the cause of defending Hinduism were delivered. A wide range of people, including senior military commanders, civil society activists, students and academics, and retired judges, have condemned the government’s indifference to the hate rally.
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Since the 7th century, militant ascetics have been a part of Hindu civilization
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British took control of them. In the 1960s, the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its religious branch, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), began forming ties with ascetic groups. In Haridwar in the 1980s, a hundred VHP members were inducted into ascetic orders in the cause of “preserving culture.”
According to UK MP Naz Shah, The Haridwar hate speeches & the mounting evidence of intolerance have led Dr. Gregory Stanton of genocide watch to predict that genocide against Muslims could take place in India.