#India
Toxic, terrifying scenes in Delhi even as Trump and Modi ramp up the bonhomie. Without justice and accountability, and the assertion of the rule of law, the fear of violent recent history repeating itself looms ever larger in Modi’s India.
#DelhiBurning #DelhiViolence
Toxic, terrifying scenes in Delhi even as Trump and Modi ramp up the bonhomie. Without justice and accountability, and the assertion of the rule of law, the fear of violent recent history repeating itself looms ever larger in Modi’s India.
#DelhiBurning #DelhiViolence
These stories & images - which should make headlines everywhere - call to mind the violent pogroms inflicted on Delhi’s Sikh community in 1984 & the subsequent failures to demand and prioritise justice & accountability. So impunity reigns. #DelhiViolence theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The detail, the shouts of “Jai Shri Ram”, these descriptions are frightening. As Trump stands by and praises Modi on freedom of religion, where is Modi now? #DelhiViolence #DelhiBurning
Meanwhile, the shouts of #FakeNews are deployed. Confirmation from @svaradarajan amongst others.
More eyewitness confirmation of #DelhiBurning amidst shouts of Jai Shri Ram. Where is the Indian government?
The threats to journalists in #DelhiViolence is very real. These threats are specifically aimed at journalists reporting the mob violence.
Modi’s timeline is full of excitement at Trump’s visit. Meanwhile. #DelhiBurning, death toll rising and horrific stories have been emerging, reminiscent of pogroms past. Where is India’s government? #DelhiViolence
That this had to happen, that Delhi High Court had to sit at midnight to order Delhi Police to ensure safe passage for injured victims so they could receive immediate emergency treatment, beggars belief. Courts step in as govt disappears. #DelhiViolence
A frightening first person account of what was happening in Delhi last night. #DelhiViolence firstpost.com/india/i-was-sc…
See South Asia Director of @hrw @mg2411 on why last night’s police inaction in #DelhiViolence wasn’t a mere aberration. It’s a pattern that has seen no reprimand, no demand for accountability from Indian govt.
Silence is complicity, and breeds impunity.
Silence is complicity, and breeds impunity.
Overview of both the inside and outside view of last night’s violence from @BDUTT. Fine dining and backslapping for Modi and Trump, whilst Delhi erupts.
Important nugget from Delhi’s High Court hearing last night on the state of Delhi police, and the BJP’s Kapil Mishra who has made a series of incendiary speeches & threats, as the Court ordered Delhi police to provide safe passage for injured victims.
Valuable thread about the important work young journalists have been doing in Delhi, often at great personal risk to report. Their work should be acknowledged, not least in light of police inaction, incompetence or complicity.
Over 48 hours later, PM Modi finally speaks out with two anodyne tweets. It’s far too little, too late. No condemnation for the incendiary speeches of BJP leaders, nor of police inaction or complicity, or the lengthy run-up. thewire.in/rights/delhi-r…
Another India.
#DelhiViolence
#DelhiViolence
This is unbearable reading. This could have been, should have been foreseen, prevented, stopped.
#DelhiViolence
#DelhiViolence
For the propaganda brigades, disseminating the notion that Hindu attacks on Muslims in the #DelhiViolence were #fakenews , the eyewitness accounts are available widely. Read them.
The Judge who ordered Delhi Police yesterday to ensure safe passage for #DelhiViolence victims also led the bench convicting former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar for his part in 1984 Sikh pogroms. His transfer away from Delhi was confirmed today.
The @nytimes take on #DelhiViolence:
“In a Hindu majority nation, with a Hindu nationalist government that has allowed the killers of Muslims to go unpunished, fear has been growing that violent Hindu extremism could spin out of control.”
nytimes.com/2020/02/26/wor…
“In a Hindu majority nation, with a Hindu nationalist government that has allowed the killers of Muslims to go unpunished, fear has been growing that violent Hindu extremism could spin out of control.”
nytimes.com/2020/02/26/wor…
A scathing, brilliant & on-point editorial by @thewire_in : Nobody should be under any illusion that the Delhi communal riots of 2020 are not a product of deliberate attempts by the BJP to polarise the country on religious grounds. #DelhiViolence
thewire.in/communalism/ed…
thewire.in/communalism/ed…
This brilliant piece on the Delhi Darkness by @pbmehta is Must Read, filling in the gaps & drawing together the govt’s actions over recent months, aided by authorities & the Supreme Court. Division and cruelty is the point.
indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
Summing up the thread of events which has led to #DelhiViolence, @pbmehta hits the nail on the head. This diabolical moral circle. 
Not pulling his punches, @pbmehta on the Indian Supreme Court’s contribution to Delhi’s darkness today.
Why justice matters. Today the High Court judge that dared speak out has been transferred with immediate effect. Why judicial independence matters.
Why justice matters. Today the High Court judge that dared speak out has been transferred with immediate effect. Why judicial independence matters.
The hate speeches that preceded the violence are many. Not one sacking, not one condemnation from the Prime Minister. The government silence speaks loudly.
Good to see concern and condemnation coming from the US. Yet to hear from the British government.
India’s democracy is in a dark place where it fails to protect and uphold the rights of all its citizens.
The world must notice & act. @FCOHumanRights
India’s democracy is in a dark place where it fails to protect and uphold the rights of all its citizens.
The world must notice & act. @FCOHumanRights
International criticism, where sustained and backed up, matters to the Indian government. Hoping @foreignoffice @FCOHumanRights take note. #DelhiViolence
Showing the strain placed on India’s justice system by the Modi government, by the clash and courage of different judges, in a time where complicity is demanded and where courage is needed to speak out.
More on the strain on the judges, as the lines between judiciary and executive in Modi’s India become blurred. Democracy can’t function like this. #India theprint.in/opinion/suprem…
Summing up the result of three days of violence, one of India’s foremost poets and lyricists.
India’s foremost historian @Ram_Guha on what Modi’s govt has done to India’s autonomous institutions, and notably including- as set out elsewhere in this thread - India’s Supreme Court.
Excellent piece by @Samanth_S in @NewYorker on India’s “wild, alarming swerve from normalcy”.
“When the state knows that its right-wing affiliates will carry out the kind of violence that it cannot & should not pursue, then all it has to do is nothing.”
newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…
“When the state knows that its right-wing affiliates will carry out the kind of violence that it cannot & should not pursue, then all it has to do is nothing.”
newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…
More eyewitness stories from #DelhiViolence, including of the police standing by- @nytimes.
