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New Delhi : International crimes and serious human rights violations against Muslims in BJP-ruled Indian states require urgent action, a panel of former international war crimes prosecutors has warned.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp, former US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, said in a report published May 4 that violence and discrimination against Muslims in India has worsened since 2019. Rapp co-authored the report with fellow human rights lawyers Marzuki Darusman and Sonja Biserko, focusing on Assam and Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n
The panel found credible evidence of crimes against humanity, including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, torture, forced evictions, and \u201cpush-back\u201d expulsions of Bengali-speaking Muslims from Assam into Bangladesh.<\/p>\n
It said Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma\u2019s public statements portraying Muslims as \u201cinfiltrators\u201d raised the risk of genocide. In Uttar Pradesh, the report cited \u201cencounter killings\u201d and \u201cOperation Langla\u201d \u2014 police shootings that maim victims \u2014 as possible torture as a crime against humanity. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was named for anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies. The panel said domestic institutions, including courts and India\u2019s National Human Rights Commission, have failed to provide redress.<\/p>\n
It urged independent investigations, prosecutions, and reparations. For international action, it called on the UN Human Rights Council to mandate a fact-finding body, the ICC Prosecutor to open a preliminary examination into deportations to Bangladesh, and foreign governments to impose targeted sanctions on identified perpetrators.<\/p>\n
\u201cHistory teaches that descent into mass violence begins with narratives,\u201d Rapp wrote, warning that unchecked measures in Assam and Uttar Pradesh could escalate into systematic violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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