Famous Indian Author Arundhati Roy has warned that Modi’s government is leading India towards Muslim genocide by exploiting COVID-19, the same as Nazis exploited typhoid during the holocaust.
Arundhati accused the Indian government to use Novel coronavirus for inflaming tensions between Muslims and Hindus, she said this while talking to DW, on Friday.
According to her, the Hindu extremist government would “dovetail with this illness to create something which the world should really keep its eyes on”. The situation is leading India towards genocide, she added.
The Author said that she thinks what has happened is COVID-19 has exposed things about India that all of us knew
We are suffering, not just from COVID, but from a crisis of hatred, from a crisis of hunger, Roy added.
It is pertinent to mention that India is currently in the midst of a six-week nationwide lockdown. The world’s second-most populous nation has so far confirmed 13,835 infections of the novel coronavirus, resulting in 452 deaths.
Arundhati claimed the régime was exploiting the virus in a method reminiscent of the one used by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Meanwhile RSS and BJP – has long said that India should be a Hindu nation.
Its ideologues have likened the Muslims of India to the Jews of Germany. And if you look at the way in which they are using COVID, it was very much like typhus was used against the Jews to get ghettoize them, to stigmatize them.”
“This crisis of hatred against Muslims,” she continued, “comes on the back of a massacre in Delhi, which was the result of people protesting against the anti-Muslim citizenship law. Under the cover of COVID-19 the government is moving to arrest young students, to fight cases against lawyers, against senior editors, against activists and intellectuals. Some of them have recently been put in jail.”
