"Hours after the air strike, rescue workers were still pulling bodies out of the rubble, and hopes of finding survivors are fading,"
"Houthi-run television showed pictures from the scene of men clearing debris with their hands and of wounded at a local hospital. MSF said one hospital had received more than 200 casualties."
"Further south, three children were killed as they were playing football when an air strike hit a telecommunications facility in the rebel-held port city of Hudaydah, Save the Children aid agency said."
"There was a near countrywide internet outage around the same time, which Houthi media blamed on the attack on the telecommunications site."
The Indian middle class is barely 28 percent of the population and even within that, most of us don't have the leisure time to be streaming and zooming and ordering stuff online on demand.
Not to mention as pointed out by @FarhanaCvg, Kashmir had the longest internet shutdown ++
..and that shutdown was done in the name of maintaining normalcy.
Should we just forget the 13,000 hours for which ordinary Kashmiris were denied access to essential services?
Widespread collective dissent by muslims in both political and cultural spheres is the only pathway towards guaranteeing their survival and dignity.
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We, the majority, must enable for them the cultural institutions, legal guarantees and protections of the public sphere to speak and organise without fear and hesitation by providing material and ideological support.
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We must remember that all this anti-minority violence is being done in our name, to make us feel safe & powerful.
So we must repeatedly and consistently undermine these narratives.
We can do this by deradicalising our own. By stopping the hate where it begins: at our homes.
Genocide Watch has declared a Genocide Emergency Alert for India today at Justice For All, which is an anti-genocide human rights organization.
This online briefing was attended by four hundred community and interfaith leaders from around the United States, Canada and other countries.
Prof Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, and developer of the 10 Stages of Genocide, reminded the audience that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “political base is the base that is held by the RSS… ”,