The Narendra Modi government is exploiting the novel coronavirus outbreak to inflame tensions between Hindus and Muslims in the country, alleged author and activist Arundhati Roy.
Talking to German TV channel DW TV, Roy launched a scathing attack on the government and said it would “dovetail with this illness to create something which the world should really keep its eyes on”.
“We are suffering, not just from COVID, but from a crisis of hatred, from a crisis of hunger,” she said and added that the situation in India was approaching a “genocide”.
“Under the cover of COVID-19, the government is moving to arrest youngRoy claimed that the crisis of hatred against Muslims comes on the back of a “massacre” in Delhi, which was the result of people protesting against the “anti-Muslim” citizenship law. She was referring to the violent clashes in February between pro and anti-CAA protesters, which had left at least 53 people dead.
“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 into jail,” she said.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness author went on to compare the Modi government with the Nazi regime and said its ideologies had likened the Muslims of India to the Jews of Germany. Roy argued that the RSS, which she claimed the mother ship of the BJP, has long said that India should be a Hindu nation.
“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,” the activist.
Arundhati Roy on coronavirus: 'Situation in India is approaching genocidal'
The Indian political activist Arundhati Roy has accused the government of inflaming tensions between Hindus and Muslims. She issued a dire warning, saying that COVID-19 is putting India's fault lines "on full display."
Genocidal situation against Muslims in India: Arundhati Roy
Saturday, April 18, 2020 • Telugu
Author and activist Arundhati Roy has alleged that the Narendra Modi sarkar is using the COVID-19 crisis to incite hatred towards Muslims. Speaking to DW, a German media house, the writer of 'God Of Small Things' has described the situation as 'approaching genocide' without backing her propaganda with facts.
Roy has come under much trolling for her falsehoods. "Arundhati Roy is the concave side of a spoon. She will show you an inverted image of the world like when she called the Rafale aircraft an aircraft carrier, or when she portrayed some Muslims attacking health workers as India's genocide of Muslims," writes The Frustrated Indian, reacting to Roy's views.
It has been long alleged by many that Roy is a foreign-funded activist who supports Maoists and sympathizes with Kashmiri jihadists for a reason. @IndiaSpeaksPR on Twitter says that most Indians are completely oblivious of the fact that Arundhati Roy is considered the final word on India in many international circles. "It may sound very odd but it is sadly true. What is doubly tragic is we have made zero efforts to investigate and publicize who funds her," he writes.
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