Communalism

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• Sri Lanka: The Office on Missing Persons post-2020: Who and What is it for?
  4 January, by siawi3

  Sri Lanka has a long history of appointing commissions of inquiry to buy time, deflect international pressure and criticism, and launch partisan attacks against opponents (Amnesty International 2009). Drawing attention to the considerable energy and resources that the post-war Mahinda Rajapaksa regime (2009-2015) poured into establishing a string of institutional mechanisms such as the LLRC and the PCICMP under pressure from western governments (139), Kate Cronin-Furman (2020) conceptualises these domestic commissions of inquiry as ‘human rights half measures’.

• India: No Indian Institution Is Free of Caste-Based Discrimination in Viva Exams and Interviews
  4 January, by siawi3

  The caste of candidates should not be revealed to the members of the interview panels. My own experience of attending some interviews as an expert informs me that ‘upper’ caste interviewers mostly have a tendency of awarding low marks to candidates from reserved categories.

• India: Press Release: Thousands Protest Against Karnataka Anti-Conversion Bill In Bangalore
  4 January, by siawi3

  This Bill if passed will undermine our precious constitutional rights to faith, autonomy and choice, marriage as well as the underlying constitutional value of dignity. For these reasons we oppose the passing of the Bill and demand that it be withdrawn.

• India: Citizens, armed forces veterans write to President, PM Modi on hate speech / Aditi Mittal: Deafening silence in a year of hate speech
  7 January, by siawi3

  Five former chiefs of the armed forces and a number of other prominent citizens including bureaucrats have written a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the recent incidents of hate speeches and urged them to take appropriate measures.“We cannot allow such incitement to violence together with public expressions of hate – which not only constitute serious breaches of internal security but which could also tear apart the social fabric of our nation.”

• India: The will to secular practice - It is dangerous to ignore Haridwar hate speech
  9 January, by siawi3

  This latest iteration of diabolical hate speech against Muslims, on the eve of another momentous election campaign, should remind us that dangerous speech has consequences. Incidents like this should remind us about the fragility of secularism in India, of its confinement to the realm of beautiful language.

• India will come apart if secular contract is torn
  9 January, by siawi3

  This pattern has been fairly resilient till now. Recall that even in the high tide of Islamist radicalism in the1990s, the Indian Muslims remained largely free of the extremist virus. But today, they are being constantly hammered by discrimination and intimidation. How long they can bear the onslaught is not clear, except that the consequences of the breakdown of the Indian republic’s secular contract will not have pretty consequences.

• India: Political Scientist Neera Chandoke on Vigilantism and Mob Justice
  13 January, by siawi3

  The contrast between religion as faith, and the cynical use of religion as a means to power, has never been clearer.

• India: Communal Violence in 2021
  21 January, by siawi3

  There were 20 communal riots, in which one person died, and 16 incidences of communally motivated mob lynching in the year 2021, according to the data monitored by Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS) using a limited methodology, viz., scanning five newspapers published from Mumbai – The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Hindu, Inquilab and Sahfat. This methodology is not very exhaustive but yet gives a significant peek into communal violence

• HRW World Report 2022 showcases India’s worsening Human Rights situation
  23 January, by siawi3

  Report squarely blames the ruling regime, taking it to task for politically motivated harassment and prosecution of dissenters, targeting of minorities

• India: A Reporter’s Notes: ‘The Only Way Out for Targets of the Bulli Bai App is Forward’
  23 January, by siawi3

  In 2021, as hate crimes against minorities rose, the media stood silent. This year started with more hate, but it sparked national outrage. As a target of the misogynist anti-minority campaign myself, I can’t help but wonder: Is there hope for India after all?

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