Genocidal Indian PM Preserves Culture of State-Sponsored Atrocities

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• published: 19 Sep 2016
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Indian Prime Minister Modi is a god to his followers, but some see a monster in him. One of those is journalist Pieter Friedrich, who believes Modi is a genocidal politician who preserves a culture of state-sponsored atrocities in India: The accused, the implicated political figures in this massacre, in this genocide in Gujarat — the primary accused is Narendra Modi. He is now prime minister of India. Modi’s first executive office was as Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001. He soon earned notoriety by orchestrating a genocide that will haunt his political career forever. It will not go away. It will not be an issue that is allowed to rest until he answers for it. In 2002, thousands of Gujarati Muslims and Christians were massacred in a three-day pogrom. Armed with voter rolls that identified Muslims residences and businesses, for about three days mobs of Hindus took to the streets, massacred Muslims as well as Christians, burned mosques, burned churches. Victims were hacked to pieces, dismembered, beaten to death, burned alive, and gang-raped. Eyewitnesses to the attacks testified that the mobs chanted: “The police are with us. Long live Narendra Modi.” Narendra Modi has been implicated in staging this genocide in Gujarat, India by the U.S. State Department, by Human Rights Watch, by members of his own administration, by police officers who served under him. Over and over again, Narendra Modi has been directly implicated as orchestrating — as architecting — this genocide which was the first major incident of his political career. We’ve also seen over the past 30 years some really egregious — some really egregious atrocities committed by the Indian government. Some full-scale massacres. Genocides, many people term them. The first one was in 1984 in Amritsar, where the Sikh Golden Temple was invaded. This invasion was a full-scale military invasion. It lasted for about three days. It occurred at the busiest day of the largest Sikh festival of the year when there were thousands of pilgrims that were in the temple. And many of them were massacred. Another massacre that followed up several months later — this one occurred in 1984 in Delhi. This one was also targeted against Sikhs. Again, it occurred over a period of about three days. Witnesses say that the mobs that took to the streets for these three days were armed with voter rolls that identified Sikh residences and businesses. They targeted Sikhs based off of anybody that was wearing a turban. And they just went amok, and ran rampage through the city, and slaughtered — and when I say slaughtered, they burned alive, they gang-raped, they dismembered. They committed many atrocities against Sikhs, killing several thousand, at least 3,000 which are acknowledged by the U.S. State Department. Another massacre that came just a few years later was both in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh and in Mumbai in Maharashtra. This time it was Muslims who were massacred. Again, it was with implication of leading political figures, including a man from the BJP named L.K. Advani. About 2,000 people, according to the State Department, were murdered. The last pogrom I want to talk about happened against Christians. This happened in 2008 in Kandhamal, Odisha. This one actually lasted longer. It lasted several weeks. Churches were burned as mobs took to the streets, went through villages, hunted down Christians. People were burned alive. So all throughout India, since 1983, we’ve got a consistent track record from both political parties of these genocides and pogroms being sponsored against religious minorities of all categories — Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs. We see at times these massacres over a period of a few days or a few weeks of thousands of people. Well, over periods of decades, thousands of other people from these same religious minority communities — Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs — have been more secretly and quietly slaughtered.