ISLAMABAD: As the world commemorates the victims of acts of violence motivated by religion or belief today, atrocities committed against minorities in occupied Jammu & Kashmir and India, including Kashmiri Muslims, continue unabatedly.
In a report published today in connection with the Day, the Kashmir Media Service (KMS) research division claimed that Indian troops are even denying the Kashmiri people’s right to practice their religion. “India has seized all of the people of Jammu and Kashmir’s rights, including their freedom of religion and political expression. IIOJK’s demographic shift shows that India discriminates against people based on religious beliefs.
Under the rogue PM Modi’s administration, religious minorities in India are continuously persecuted. The idea of a civilized world has been marred by the killing, detention, and torture of Indian Muslims under the pretext of cow slaughter. It claimed that the 2002 Gujarat carnage shows how Muslims are mistreated in India.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are using hate campaigns as a weapon against religious minorities and Muslims in India, the research said. In India, Islamophobia is on the rise in an alarming way.
The anti-Muslim riots in Delhi and Haryana and the Indian Supreme Court’s decision over the Babri Masjid show plainly how uncomfortable India is becoming for Muslims. As recently seen in Manipur, “Hindutva Indian forces in uniform and civic attire are vandalizing religious sites of Muslims, Christians, and other minorities in India with impunity.”
The RSS-backed fascist Modi government is using terror as a strategy to scare religious minorities across the nation, according to the research, which claimed that hatred against religious minorities is at an all-time high in India.
Through discriminatory policies like the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Population Register (NPR), and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the BJP government, which the RSS leads, is preparing to cleanse Muslims ethnically.
According to the report, the international community must ensure that the voices of the victims of violence in India’s IIOJK and elsewhere are heard. “To safeguard the rights of the IIOJK people and India’s religious minorities, the international community must take concrete action.
The BJP-dominated Hindutva government in India must be held accountable for its atrocities against the IIOJK people and other religious minorities in India, it continued. The report made note of previous warnings to the world community regarding the genocide of Muslims in India and IIOJK. Due to their religion, Christians, Muslims, and Dalits are all in grave danger in India, it said.
The UN has declared the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief a day for states to intensify their efforts to prevent intolerance, discrimination, and violence against people based on religion or belief. —APP
