India: an open letter asks Modi to react to attacks on Muslims

In India, more than 100 former senior officials have just written an open letter to the Prime Minister asking him to react to put an end to the growing attacks against the Muslim minority.

REUTERS - EVELYN HOCKSTEIN

Text by: RFI Follow

2 mins

In India, more than 100 former senior officials have just written an open letter to the Prime Minister.

They ask him to react to put an end to the growing attacks against the Muslim minority. 

Advertisement

Read more

With our correspondent in New Delhi,

Sébastien Farcis

In recent weeks, members of the Hindu clergy have openly called for the murder and rape of Muslims, and violent processions have taken place in Muslim neighborhoods in the north of the country.

The Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi, far from condemning these acts, has often defended the attackers.

A total of 108 senior Indian state officials, former national security adviser or directors of federal and regional administrations, are alarmed to see that the public authorities under the authority of the Hindu nationalist party " 

twist the Constitution and the laws to impose the tyranny of the Hindu majority, and force the Muslim minority to live in constant fear

 ”.

Because of this, these

Indian Muslims

often no longer have the right to pray freely, they say, to eat or wear what they want.

According to Shivshankar Mukherjee, former ambassador to the United Kingdom and signatory of this letter, this supremacist drift risks calling into question the democratic foundations of India.

►

Also to listen: India: why are Muslims the target of violence?

The silence of the Prime Minister in the face of the situation

And the Prime Minister can therefore no longer remain silent.

Who else can speak?

Almost the whole country is ravaged by a wave of hatred and India is increasingly ruled by rioters.

In this situation, the Prime Minister's silence is tantamount to approval.

The government maintains that these attacks are isolated and carried out by radical groups.

This subject could however be raised during the meeting between Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron, in Paris, next Wednesday.

►

To read: The Indian government destroys without warning dozens of Muslim businesses

Newsletter

Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox

I subscribe

Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application

google-play-badge_FR

  • India

  • Narendra Damodardas Modi

  • Islam

  • Human rights