Shaheed #HemantKarkare was murdered by Hindutva terrorists on 26/11/08. On the same day prosecutor Rohini Salian had submitted a laptop in MCOCA court recovered by #ShaheedKarkare from "priest" Dayanand. That laptop had 3 video & 2 audio clips of Pandey, Pragya, Purohit & other +
2. Hindutva terrorists talking about RDX, hand grenades & arms training. The entire investigation revealed the network & the scale of of Hindutva terror. If Congress really cared about fixing Hindutva problem they would've gone after the terrorists & brought them to justice +
3. But Congress let Hindutva terror spread & kept targeting Muslim organisations. Despite all this evidence not one Hindutva group was banned during entire UPA rule. Bombs went off in Muslim areas, near mosques, in public places in Muslim areas but Muslims kept getting arrested+
4. The RSS monster went beyond control in front of their eyes but they chose to look away or now I believe helped them in some ways. Innocent Muslims are still paying the price for Congress's mistakes. +
5. Braveheart Hemant Karkare also paid the price for standing up to the Hindutva project and exposing them methodically. If he would've been around for couple of more years, his investigation would've definitely led him to the doorsteps of RSS HQ.
Video credits - @anandverite. If you haven't watched the series Vivek, do yourself a favour and watch it right now. These edited clips are from episode 14 & 15.
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I come from an India where 2002 pogrom is distant history but Aurangzeb killings are fresh as yesterday. I come from an India where Umar Khalid spends 18 months in jail for a peace rally but Kapil Mishra goes scot free despite giving threats to Muslims in front of 3 star cop +
2. I come from an India where Arnab's personal liberty is very important for SC but Sudhaji & other activists can rot in jail for years w/o even a trial. I come from an India where 97% Muslim state Kashmir is an abhinna ang of India but we are working towards a Hindu Rashtra +
3. I come from an India where a Junaid has to cut his beard, say BMKJ to prove loyalty to India while Sharmas can keep passing secrets to ISI. I come from an India where RSS who sided with British are biggest nationalists but Muslims who refused to go to Pak in 1947 are traitors+
2002 was a PRE-PLANNED genocide- a successful implementation of Hindutva terr0r plot that was in the making for months. Gujarat was a Hindu laboratory as claimed by the Hindutva leaders & state was prepped to erupt on cue. In fact, Independent agencies had warned about VHP/RSS +
2. Bajrang Dal holding weekly congregations where trishuls/swords were distributed & martial training was imparted, at least 6 months before the genocide. As the state was burning, the entire infrastructure was battle ready– Magistrates/cops simply watched, Fire brigades didn't +
3. come for help, hospitals turned away Muslim patients. People/houses disappeared, overnight roads were laid where once Muslims lived, & Hindu temples came up at the place of mosques. The mobs didn't just have lists of Muslim households, they also had database of Muslim appts+
This is a farmers protest, not just a Sikh protest. However, even if we narrow our focus & compare - Islam is not a monolith, Sikhism is. Sikhs are one unified community, connected not just by religion, but also by language & land unlike Muslims. Keralite Muslim has nothing in +
2. common with UP Muslim, except religion. Not just language, they wouldn't even have a common topic to discuss. Importantly, 80% of Punjab is under cultivation & most of Sikhs are 1st/2nd or 3rd gen farmers & have someone in their immediate/near family associated to farming+
3. or agro industry even if they themselves don't live in Punjab . They are still connected & have an attachment to the land so this issue is close to their heart. Also need to note, Sikhs haven't been dehumanised like Muslims. No doubt they have suffered immensely in 1984+
Nazi Propaganda Ministry in 1933 got editors & journalists to register with Reich Press Chamber to follow the mandate & instructions handed down by the ministry. The Nazis had editors omit anything “calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich.” The Propaganda Ministry totally+
2.controlled the content of news & editorial pages through daily instructions given by Party propaganda offices. Detailed guidelines were issued on which stories could or could not be reported & how to report any news in country. Journalists or editors who failed to follow these+
3.instructions were fired or, if believed to be harmful to the Reich, sent to concentration camp. Rather than suppressing news, Nazi propaganda apparatus tightly controlled its flow & interpretation. Indian media is similar but far easier to control, they are already radicalised.
Perpetrator of Ghallughara 1984 should never be forgotten. Operation Bluestar was planned & designed by Indira Gandhi to kill maximum Sikhs. Majority of those who were killed were pilgrims not connected with the political agitation, gathered to commemorate one of the important +
2. day in Sikh calendar. Operation Woodrose followed Bluestar, a genocidal wave of state terrorism that resulted in arrest, torture & execution of 1000s more. Army units surrounded villages & lined people up in streets. Baptised Sikh men were humiliated, taken away in trucks &+
3. disappeared. Approx 1 million individuals were reported as missing or killed as a result of Army operations during this period. It is estimated that 100,000 youths were taken into custody within first 6 weeks of operation & many of them were not heard of again. During both +