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Expert who predicted Rwandan genocide warns same could happen in India against Muslims

Pakistani Hindus have more rights in Pakistan than Pakistani Muslim urdu speakers in the sindh province.

Sindhi hindus all study in the best medical and engineering schools of Sindh on Sindhi quota and many are posted in the most prestigious jobs through out Sindh.

Many of my better half's class mates in medical school were hindus and most of them are now settled abroad.

One of Pakistan's most well known Chief Justices was a hindu Justice Bhagwan Das and he played a very influential role in the evolution of constitutional law.
 
Expert who predicted Rwandan genocide warns same could happen in India against Muslims
Dawn.comPublished January 15, 2022 - Updated about an hour ago
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Dr Gregory Stanton speaks during a congressional briefing titled 'Call For Genocide of Indian Muslims', organised by the Indian American Muslim Council. — Photo courtesy IAMC Youtube'Call For Genocide of Indian Muslims', organised by the Indian American Muslim Council. — Photo courtesy IAMC Youtube

Dr Gregory Stanton speaks during a congressional briefing titled 'Call For Genocide of Indian Muslims', organised by the Indian American Muslim Council. — Photo courtesy IAMC Youtube
The founder of Genocide Watch, Dr Gregory Stanton, who had predicted a genocide in Rwanda years before it took place in 1994 has warned of an impending genocide of Muslims in India, comparing the situation of the country under the Narendra Modi government to events in Myanmar and Rwanda.
Formed in 1999, Genocide Watch is a global organisation dedicated to the prevention of genocide. Dr Stanton is a former research professor in genocide studies and prevention at the George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
Dr Stanton made these remarks during a congressional briefing titled 'Call For Genocide of Indian Muslims', organised by the Indian American Muslim Council. He was part of a five-member panel invited to speak at the session.
In his video address, Dr Stanton began with highlighting that Genocide Watch had been warning of a genocide in India since 2002, "when riots and massacres in Gujarat occurred that killed over a thousand Muslims".
"At that time, the chief minister of Gujarat was Narendra Modi, and he did nothing. In fact, there is a lot of evidence that he actually encouraged those massacres," he said, adding that Modi, now the prime minister of India, had used "anti-Muslim, Islamophobic rhetoric" to build his political base.
Dr Stanton said the two ways Modi went about this was by revoking the special autonomous status of Indian- occupied Kashmir in 2019 and passing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act the same year.
He explained that the revocation of the of occupied Kashmir's special autonomy was "largely aimed at restoring Hindu domination" in the valley, which had Muslim majority. Moreover, he added, the enactment of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act was especially "aimed at Muslims".
"It gave [a] specific favourable status to refugees who had come from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, who were of certain religious groups. But the one group that was excluded was Muslims," he said. "This act was specifically ... aimed at the Muslims who had fled Bangladesh during the Bangladesh genocide and civil war in 1971 and had settled in Assam," he continued.
Dr Stanton said there were around three million such people, mostly Muslims, who had fled to India and "has settled down" as "regular citizens of India".
But the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, he said, required people to prove through documentation that they had been the citizens of India before 1971 as part of a census that was to be overseen by the Indian supreme court.
"Now a lot of people don't have that kind of documentation, of course," he pointed out, adding that "the idea [behind the Act] is to essentially declare them (people who had fled to India from Bangladesh in 1971) foreigners, and therefore, to allow their deportation."
He said this was "exactly was the Myanmar government did to the Rohingya Muslims" in 2017. The Myanmar government, he said, first declared Rohingya non-citizens through a legislation and and then expelled them through violence and genocide.
In this regard, he also highlighted that the UN Genocide Convention — an international treaty that criminalises genocide — not just "covers genocides in whole. It also covers genocides in part".
"It is specifically aimed at the destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, and that is exactly what the Myanmar government did in Myanmar against Rohingya," he said. "What we are now facing is a very similar kind of a plot, if you will," he added, referring to India.
Dr Stanton said the Indian government's aim was to extend the census under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act across the country and the "victims will be 200 milion Muslims in India".
He further said that the "idea of India as a Hindu nation, which is the Hindutva movement, is contrary to the history of India and the Indian constitution".
The Indian constitution, he said, was devised "to make India a secular country", and that the secularity it promised was secured in the first years of India's existence under the Congress party.
"What we have now though, an actual member of the RSS ( Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) — this extremist, Hindutva-oriented group — Mr Modi as [the] prime minister of India. So what we have here is an extremist who has taken over the government," he continued.
Dr Stanton then went on to explain that genocide was not an event but a process, and that there were early "signs and processes" of genocide in the Indian state of Assam and occupied Kashmir.
He referred to a conclave held by Hindutva leader Yati Narsinghanand from December 17 to 19 in Uttarakhand's pilgrimage city of Haridwar, where multiple calls to kill minorities and attack their religious spaces were made, saying that the event was aimed at inciting genocide.
He said there were laws in India that could be enforced against such practices, "but Mr Modi has not spoken out against that violence".
Dr Stanton said Modi, as the prime minister of India, had a moral obligation to denounce this kind of hatred and hate-speech, that specifically calls for the killing of Muslims.
He said the language used against Muslim in the Haridwar meeting, which was also used by the Indian government, was actually "polarisation", which led to genocide.
"So we are warning that genocide could very well happening in India."
He also likened the circumstances in India to the events in Rwanda, where a genocide had taken place in 1994.
Dr Stanton said he had predicted the genocide [in Rwanda], keeping in view the situation in the country at the time.
He said he had warned the then-Rwandan president that "if you don't do something to prevent genocide in your country, there is going to be a genocide here within five years. That was in 1989. The genocide developed, the hate-speech developed, all the early warning signs developed. And as we know, 800,000 Tutsis and other Rwandans were murdered in 1994".
"We cannot let that happen in India," he concluded.

Watch the full interview

Congressional Briefing on Hindu Extremists’ Call for Genocide of Muslims

He's a years late coming to this conclusion. I said it many years ago here :lol: .. and Quaid realised it long before independence.
 
We are merely discussing an extremely hypothetical scenario. Otherwise Hindutvadi elite is fully aware that an attempt on mass-scale genocide of Indian Muslims will lead to total balkanization of present India. China, Pakistan and BD will play their role.

Are they really that aware? Seriously!

Even Hitler made a blunder of invading USSR before start of winter. These Hindu Fascists do not possess even half intelligence of Hitler and his men.
 
Are they really that aware? Seriously!

Even Hitler made a blunder of invading USSR before start of winter. These Hindu Fascists do not possess even half intelligence of Hitler and his men.

Please do not underestimate the other, never.

Hitler had to deal with two fronts, and he and Stalin deeply mistrusted each other, for him it was a gamble, which did not pay off.

The Hindutva lot, they operate inside a bubble, but it took them one hundred years to control India, it was done in an organised manner, without giving up and facing numerous bans, you cannot do that if you're an idiot.
Right now, even if they disappear tomorrow, they have radicalised the society so much that there job is already done, that was their ultimate aim.

Please do not view them as a singular entity, there are different nodes of operation. The top tier is extremely intelligent and well aware of the intricacies of modern life.

But they also have different separate organisations, these organisations keep each other under pressure.
So, they not only operate from top to bottom, but also as a tent within which you have different groups separate from each other to make sure the pressure remains within their own broad structure, and no one steps out of line, but operating within the same tent as a singular entity.

The worse thing we can do is to underestimate these Hindutva Hindu extremist groups and individuals. Just look at their choice of clever words to describe things and issues, that itself shows the level of thinking that is being done.
 
Please do not underestimate the other, never.

Hitler had to deal with two fronts, and he and Stalin deeply mistrusted each other, for him it was a gamble, which did not pay off.

The Hindutva lot, they operate inside a bubble, but it took them one hundred years to control India, it was done in an organised manner, without giving up and facing numerous bans, you cannot do that if you're an idiot.
Right now, even if they disappear tomorrow, they have radicalised the society so much that there job is already done, that was their ultimate aim.

Please do not view them as a singular entity, there are different nodes of operation. The top tier is extremely intelligent and well aware of the intricacies of modern life.

But they also have different separate organisations, these organisations keep each other under pressure.
So, they not only operate from top to bottom, but also as a tent within which you have different groups separate from each other to make sure the pressure remains within their own broad structure, and no one steps out of line, but operating within the same tent as a singular entity.

The worse thing we can do is to underestimate these Hindutva Hindu extremist groups and individuals. Just look at their choice of clever words to describe things and issues, that itself shows the level of thinking that is being done.

You have aptly summarized it. Hindutva has many shades and colors.
 
Just spectate , genocide is just a sport spectacle when it doesn't happen to Jews. The UN should be designing a Plan A and a Plan B for Genocidal India but is just pussy footing about climate change. perhaps the UN believes that if 200 Million Muslims were exterminated that it would be beneficial to climate change.

The criminal silence is due economic blackmail by the Indian state as lamented by the Pakistani PM at the UN session in 2019.

Intervention is imperative in India which should pave the way for Balkanisation eventually leading to human development in the region and beyond.
 
An informative interview with the gentleman from Genocide watch
 

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