#THREAD: Trigger Warning: Genocide, murder On the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide we look at the role media plays in state-sponsored violence. (1/10)
Between April and June 1994, an estimated 1 million Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. Most of the dead were Tutsis - and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. (2/10)
The Indian mainstream media too has been following the same path, where they propagate the “Us” vs “Them” idea. (3/10)
In both Rwanda and in India media platforms furthered violence by propagating hate speech and opening their platforms to speakers who encouraged violence. (4/10)
Even as the media platforms reported on the Delhi riots of 2020, they chose, cut and moulded the news to the benefit of those in power. (5/10)
Media under the current government has seen constant intervention by the those in power, for political gains. (6/10)
Hate-speech has become a money minting strategy as TRPs skyrocket with the increasing nationalist sentiment in the country. (7/10)
Even after so many years, the Rwandan Genocide still has a lot to teach in terms of the central role of media in state violence. (8/10)
"The newspaper and the radio explicitly and repeatedly, in fact relentlessly, targeted the Tutsi population for destruction. The media called for the extermination of the Tutsi ethnic group as a response to the political threat." -International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (9/10)
"The problem with the electronic media is all about TRPs, leading to more and more sensationalism, damage reputation of people and masquerade as form of right." - Supreme Court of India (10/10) #RwandaGenocide#MassMedia
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So far about 360 people have died while participating in the ongoing nationwide farmer’ struggle. As an homage to these people five memorials now stand near Singhu, Tikri, Ghazipur and Shahjahanpur borders. (2/n)
Every memorial contains the soil accumulated from various historical places from around the country. Artist Kulpreet Singh based in Patiala, reached out to organisers offering to help in the making of memorials at Singhu and Ghazipur border. (3/n)
THREAD: Let's talk about the "#PerfectVictim", a phenomenon in which 'allies' believe that the moral compass for judging behaviour lies with them - even when they're not the ones being affected by the issue. (1/9)
Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, has observed that holding hands of a minor girl and opening the zip of pants does not fall under the ambit of 'sexual assault' within the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. (2/4)
This is in response to a mothers' report against a 50-year-old man for sexually assaulting and molesting her 5-year-old daughter. (3/4)
According to @IndiaSpend's analysis of the Crime in #India 2019 report, cases of rape against #women from scheduled #castes increased by 37%, and of assault by 20%, in the past four years.
The analysis also mentioned that #UttarPradesh recorded the highest increase in #crime against #women, at 66.7%, in the four years to 2019. Overall, crimes against people from the scheduled #castes increased by 18.8%.
According to the policy brief, women only make up a quarter (24.9%) of members of national #parliaments across the #globe. As of January 2020, only 21.3% of ministers globally were #women.
Brahmanical #patriarchy continues to be one of the most misunderstood terms of our times. People often argue as to why we must call for 'Smashing Brahmanical Patriarchy' and not just 'Smashing Patriarchy'. #FIIExplains
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But in India, caste and gender intersect together to uphold the Brahmanical social order. Professor Uma Chakravarti, coined the term in her 1993 paper 'Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriachy in Early India - Gender, Caste, Class and State'.
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She defined brahmanical patriarchy as 'the need for effective sexual control over women to not only maintain patrilineal succession but also caste purity, the institution unique to Hindu society'.