Washington: Gregory Stanton, founder and director of Genocide Watch, has warned that genocide of Muslims is imminent in India.
According to Al Jazeera, Gregory Stanton, during a briefing to the US Congress, said that there were early "signs and actions" of genocide in the Indian states of Assam and Occupied Kashmir.
"We are warning that there could be large-scale genocide in India. Genocide is not an incident but an act," he said. There are similarities in discriminatory policies.
He mentioned the policy of removing the special status of Occupied Kashmir and making property to non-natives.
He mentioned the abolition of special sovereign status of Indian-administered Kashmir in 2019 and granting citizenship to non-Muslim religious minorities under the Citizenship Amendment Act the same year.
"We are warning that Genocide could very well happen in India. The US Holocaust museum is right about that." https://t.co/cK6GQYFZb8
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Gregory Stanton, a lecturer in genocide studies and prevention at George Mason University in Virginia, said he feared that Muslims in India would be treated as if the Rohingya in Myanmar were first declared legal non-citizens and then Expelled through violence and genocide.
"What we are facing now is exactly the same conspiracy," he said.
Gregory Stanton said the Hindutva ideology was "against the history of India and its constitution" and called Narendra Modi an "extremely unpopular" person who has taken over the government.
