The Prme Minister Modi has said, "Killing people in the name of Gau Bhakti is not acceptable." [1]
Indeed a bold announcement from the honorable Prime Minister of India with a view to ending unjust communal violence which basically got pumped up based on rumors. (i.e., of the 63 attacks since 2010, 33 (52.4%) were based on rumors, according to our analysis of media reports). [2]
The entire South Asian region, especially Pakistan, Myanmar and now Bangladesh are also infected by communal tensions and violence. Everyday, people of different castes (i.e., Shia, Sunni, etc.) and religions (i.e., Hindus, Christians) are getting killed in Pakistan, we are still observing that in Myanmar extremist-Buddhist are following ethnic cleansing of Rohigya Muslim people with direct-indirect support of law enforcing forces and govt. even, and in Bangladesh- hundreds of homes of Hindus and different tribal groups have been vandalized in last several months.
Bangladesh has been actively re-iterating zero tolerance to extremist terrorism [3] [4], but still yet to observe a significant change in de-facto situations as the brutality against tribal groups by Bangali people have not come to zero yet [5] [6].
In this critical moment, it is really appreciative that how commoners of India and Bangladesh have always come out of home and made strong protests to this communal tensions, violence, intolerance, "divide and rule"-political approaches, indicating that we all want a very sound, peaceful and progressive South Asian region [8].
Surely, it is good to see that the present Modi Govt. have not ignored to protect rights of Muslims and followers of any other religion, as given in the Constitution of India, under Articles 15 (1) stating-
"The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them."
And also in Article 16 (1),
"There shall be equality of opportunity for all citizens in matters relating to employment or appointment to any office under the State." [7]
We do strongly believe, as the words strongly spoken by the PM Modi, we hope to see certain visible changes at the field levels in India and also in entire sub-continent to break down the jaws and claws of communal extremism.
References:
[1] http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/killing-people-in-name-of-gau-bhakti-not-acceptable-says-pm-narendra-modi-1718368
[2] https://goo.gl/cqJJX9
[3] http://www.theindependentbd.com/arcprint/details/85582/2017-03-16
[4] http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/05/22/pm-global-effort-block-terrorists-weapon-supply-line/
[5] https://goo.gl/Z2Yozj
[6] http://bangla.bdnews24.com/bangladesh/article1125086.bdnews
[7] https://india.gov.in/sites/upload_files/npi/files/coi_part_full.pdf
[8] http://time.com/4838566/india-beef-lynching-attacks-muslims/
Indeed a bold announcement from the honorable Prime Minister of India with a view to ending unjust communal violence which basically got pumped up based on rumors. (i.e., of the 63 attacks since 2010, 33 (52.4%) were based on rumors, according to our analysis of media reports). [2]
The entire South Asian region, especially Pakistan, Myanmar and now Bangladesh are also infected by communal tensions and violence. Everyday, people of different castes (i.e., Shia, Sunni, etc.) and religions (i.e., Hindus, Christians) are getting killed in Pakistan, we are still observing that in Myanmar extremist-Buddhist are following ethnic cleansing of Rohigya Muslim people with direct-indirect support of law enforcing forces and govt. even, and in Bangladesh- hundreds of homes of Hindus and different tribal groups have been vandalized in last several months.
Bangladesh has been actively re-iterating zero tolerance to extremist terrorism [3] [4], but still yet to observe a significant change in de-facto situations as the brutality against tribal groups by Bangali people have not come to zero yet [5] [6].
In this critical moment, it is really appreciative that how commoners of India and Bangladesh have always come out of home and made strong protests to this communal tensions, violence, intolerance, "divide and rule"-political approaches, indicating that we all want a very sound, peaceful and progressive South Asian region [8].
Surely, it is good to see that the present Modi Govt. have not ignored to protect rights of Muslims and followers of any other religion, as given in the Constitution of India, under Articles 15 (1) stating-
"The State shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them."
And also in Article 16 (1),
"There shall be equality of opportunity for all citizens in matters relating to employment or appointment to any office under the State." [7]
We do strongly believe, as the words strongly spoken by the PM Modi, we hope to see certain visible changes at the field levels in India and also in entire sub-continent to break down the jaws and claws of communal extremism.
References:
[1] http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/killing-people-in-name-of-gau-bhakti-not-acceptable-says-pm-narendra-modi-1718368
[2] https://goo.gl/cqJJX9
[3] http://www.theindependentbd.com/arcprint/details/85582/2017-03-16
[4] http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/05/22/pm-global-effort-block-terrorists-weapon-supply-line/
[5] https://goo.gl/Z2Yozj
[6] http://bangla.bdnews24.com/bangladesh/article1125086.bdnews
[7] https://india.gov.in/sites/upload_files/npi/files/coi_part_full.pdf
[8] http://time.com/4838566/india-beef-lynching-attacks-muslims/
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