NEW DELHI, India: Every year on December 18, Minority Rights Day is celebrated in India while the country topped the list of atrocities on minorities.
Muslims, Christians, Sikhs and lower caste Hindus are forced to live under condition ‘worse’ than human beings in India as more than 20,000 Muslims have been martyred in India from 1964 to 2022.
In 2022, 50,000 houses of Muslims were demolished in the state of Hyderabad, and in 2023, 400 incidents of violence against Christians were reported in 23 states of India. Meanwhile, Indian extremists killed hundreds of Christians and burned 600 villages in the Kandhamal district of Orissa.
Sikh riots intensified after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, in which around 17,000 Sikhs were eliminated.
As per DW, 60,000 crimes against Dalit Hindus were reported in India. On average, an incident of violence against a Dalit occurred every 10 minutes in 2012.
National Crime Bureau in India said that over 250,000 hate crimes against lower castes were reported in the last 5 years in the country that claims to be secular, while as per the report of US Institute on Religious Affairs, there have been systematic attacks on Muslims, Dalits and Christians in India.
The head of the US Commission on Religious Freedom said that religious freedom in India has suffered a sharp decline under the Modi government.
Since 2020, the US Commission on Religious Affairs has placed India on the list of countries of concern and human rights organizations have declared India as a dangerous country for minorities.
