New Delhi: Citizen for Justice and Peace (CJP) in India has released its annual report titled, “A Year of Othering and Violence for Religious Minorities in India.”
According to the report, 2022 was the year of hatred, discrimination and violence against religious minorities in India. The report has documented several incidents of hatred directed at minority communities across the country.
According to the report, there were repeated instances of hate crimes, hate speeches, discrimination, and assaults on the life and liberty of Indians belonging to religious minorities through the year 2022. The report highlighted, the perpetrators were either “members of an unnamed mob belonging to the majority community”, or, equally and often identified with organizations affiliated to supremacist Hindutva.
CJP said, “Such incidents were reported from various parts of the country: a visible trend in all these incidents is that religion atrocities are often state sanctioned, and perpetuated amidst a prevalent culture of impunity”.
A calculated silence from senior elected officials and those in government has influenced law enforcement to delay or deter the accountability and justice process: delayed filing of FIRs (criminal complaints that launch an investigation), a passivity in the face of intimidatory rape and genocide threats to actually allowing the quick release of perpetrators, and their felicitation, in the rare situations of arrest.
To witness such brutal and demoralizing incidents, committed against innocents, should shock the conscience of all Indians.
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