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Washington, June 10, 2023 (PPI-OT):A US-based human rights group “Justice for All” has drawn a parallel between the Hindutva ideology and the Niazis, citing the ongoing persecution of the minorities in India. The organization’s report titled “The Notification of India” compares 12 different mechanisms of hate and persecution from the Nazi playbook, and how they are being implemented in India today.
The Chicago-based human rights organization in the report said India, which projects itself as the largest democracy in the world, has become the weakest at the hands of the fascist Hindutva ideology. It said the Hindutva ideology is not only inspired by Nazis and Fascists of Europe, but their treatment of the Muslim minority closely follows developments that resulted in pushing Jews to the gas chambers.
The report said, India today is ruled not just by a political party the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but its mother organization the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It said that what was happening in India today was “clearly demonstrates that India is on a dangerous trajectory to becoming a Nazi-inspired, fascist, majoritarian state, where its minorities and particularly its more than 200 million Muslims, face an impending danger of genocide.”
“The fact that these parallels are seen is not a surprise since the early leaders of the RSS openly declared that the Nazi model was a good one for India to adopt. And recently, Hitler’s popularity has grown widely in the country,” it said. The report also explored how Narendra Modi not only got away with facilitating a pogrom but was also elected the Prime Minister of India – twice. It further noted that “while Modi’s fortunes continue to rise in India, India’s positioning around the world continues to fall.”
Authors of the report cited the Freedom House, which “downgraded” India in 2021 to “partially free,” as well as the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index that placed the ‘world’s largest democracy’ in the category of “Flawed Democracy.” It also mentions Reporters without Borders, which, in 2022 placed India “among the worst countries in terms of media freedom, ranking it 150th out of 180 countries.”
The report pointed out that the non-profit Genocide Watch has already warned that the situation in India “reached the stages of polarization, preparation, and persecution respectively, the 6th, 7th, and 8th stages of the Ten Stages of Genocide”. “The world must heed these warning signs and act as a matter of urgency to prevent history from repeating itself,” it insisted. The report wants global leaders to “condemn the gross human rights violations occurring in India and pressure the government to hold true to India’s secular constitution.”
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