Wednesday May 22, 2024
New Delhi (Urdu Point Newspaper Latest - Online. May 22, 2024) India, the world's largest so-called democracy, has a long history of human rights violations. Here, minorities, especially Muslims, are victims of atrocities by the Indian government. Involved in human rights violations, India ranks first whenever a human rights report is issued, according to the April 2024 report on human rights violations by Congressional Research Services. India has been found guilty of numerous human rights violations, most of which are of a serious nature.
According to the Congressional Research Services report, the Indian government has not taken any action against the officials who have been found involved in human rights violations. There has been a massive increase in violations, last year the Sweden-based Varieties of Democracy Project named Niebhardt one of the worst dictators of the past ten years, before the US Freedom House report in 2021. It was claimed that extremist Modi and his party are leading India to the worst dictatorship, India is violating international laws and is also attacking people living in other countries through its agencies. 80% of Hindus, 14% of Muslims, 2% of Sikhs and only 2% of Christians are inhabited, even such a small number of minorities do not accept the propagandists of Hindutva who persecute them day by day, according to the report of Congressional Research Services, religious minorities in India. In particular, violent incidents against Muslims include harassment, threats and even killings, including violent attacks and killings of Muslims by extremist Hindus for slaughtering or trading cows. After Muslims, the Christian community is the second largest victim of persecution by Indian extremists, with an average of 11 violent attacks per week. US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken said in 2022 that some of the attacks on places of worship of religious minorities in India Indian officials are not only involved but also facilitating the attacks, Anthony Blanken's statement shows that attacks against minorities in India have government support, US Commission on International Religious Freedom In 2020, it also recommended that the Secretary of State designate India as a country of concern regarding the Religious Act. And concerns were expressed over unjustified cases against them. According to the Press Freedom Report 2023, serious restrictions on Internet access in India, censorship of online content and suppression of digital media users by the Indian government? Suppresses freedom of expression, India has been named the "world's biggest offender" for the fifth year in a row for blacking out the Internet 84 times in 2022. The measures taken for this do not meet even the minimum standards, anti-trafficking efforts are insufficient compared to the problems and the acquittal rate of smugglers is 84%. In 2019, the extremist Modi government changed the constitutional status of Kashmir, which As Human Rights Watch reports, the Special Powers Act has allowed security forces to detain large numbers of people without charge for serious human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir. In India, women are subjected to all kinds of persecution, sexual violence is common, forced marriage, femicide, enforced disappearances and child abuse are commonplace in India. The conflict between the Kuki and Meiti tribes in the eastern state of Manipur has resulted in significant human rights violations, the report clearly shows that Hindu extremism is on the rise in India and growing day by day.
