Genocide Watch highlights Stage Seven ‘Preparation’ for genocide in India
Islamabad : Genocide Watch, a Washington-based international non-governmental organization monitoring and preventing genocide worldwide, has highlighted signs of Stage Seven—Preparation—of the genocide process in India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the report recalls the progression leading up to Stage Seven within the Genocide Watch Ten Stages Framework, which identifies patterns that typically precede genocide. The stages include classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization, organization, polarization, and preparation. Stage Seven, Preparation, is when leaders of a group plan massacres, organize resources, and often use coded or euphemistic language to conceal genocidal intent, such as labeling plans as “Final Solution,” “ethnic cleansing,” or “counterterrorism.”
The report emphasizes indicators such as arming groups, training militias, and normalizing violent rhetoric as key signs of preparation. It systematically maps these indicators onto recent developments in India, including mobilization rallies, hate narratives, weapons distribution, and coordinated targeting, presenting them as empirical evidence that the situation has entered the preparation stage.
Genocide Watch draws parallels to the Nazi Holocaust, which followed meticulous planning before mass killings, highlighting the dangers of normalized rhetoric and organized violence.
The report notes that some Hindutva leaders have publicly advocated violence against Muslims, framing it as self-defense. Groups such as Bajrang Dal are reportedly arming and training young Hindu men to attack Muslims. Since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in 2014, inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric has surged online and offline, particularly in BJP-ruled states, with anti-Muslim rallies increasing across multiple regions. The report says that Maharashtra witnessed a surge of anti-Muslim hate speech on social media after the BJP took over the state government in 2022.
Hindutva leaders have promoted conspiracy theories such as “love-jihad,” claiming that Muslim men deliberately seduce Hindu women to convert them. Violent rhetoric has included explicit threats, including calls for the castration and murder of Muslim men, and videos inciting violence have gained widespread attention. In the aftermath of the attack in Pahalgam in 2025 in occupied Jammu and Kahmir, videos and songs immediately appeared inciting Hindus to murder Muslims as retribution. They garnered hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. Videos on media platforms often use Hindu religious texts to justify murder, a virulent tactic to incite Hindus to commit genocide.
The report says that a visible manifestation of preparation can be observed when groups like the Bajrang Dal conduct events where tridents (trishuls) are distributed amongst young men during events, with participants taking oaths to “protect Hindu society, women, cows and saints.”
The process of preparation has led to organized, collective destruction of Muslim mosques and attacks on Muslim gatherings, often coinciding with festivals such as Ram Navami, which has sometimes overlapped with Ramadan, escalating communal tensions. In seven Indian states, violent incidents have included armed attacks, property destruction, and assaults on Muslims, while police arrests have reportedly disproportionately targeted Muslim victims. Hindutva leaders have openly incited violence during processions routed through Muslim neighborhoods, and such calls have become a recurring feature during Ram Navami celebrations.
The report underscores that these systematic patterns of hate, armed mobilization, and incitement indicate that the genocide process in India has reached the preparation stage, warning of heightened risks for the Muslim population.
Genocide Watch has called on the Indian government to outlaw, condemn, and dismantle Hindutva arms training camps. It has urged that Indian lawmakers who openly support violence against Muslims should be expelled from parliament and stripped of parliamentary immunity. The organization also demands that social media platforms operating in India such as YouTube, Facebook, and WhatsApp ban hate speech and content that incites genocide or crimes against humanity.
Furthermore, Genocide Watch has appealed to the US Congress, the European Parliament, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to publicly condemn India’s failure to curb hate speech on social media. It has urged these international bodies to press Indian states to repeal anti-conversion and anti-cow slaughter laws and to enact measures preventing Hindu festivals from being used to intrude upon or provoke Muslim neighborhoods.
