Sunday, October 15, 2023

The camp called India.

"The Delhi High Court...issued fresh notice to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on a plea by an NGO seeking damages, claiming its documentary 'India: The Modi Question' casts a slur on the country's reputation and makes false and defamatory imputations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian judiciary." ET. Firstly, the documentary was aired in the UK where it is not considered defamatory  (BBC), and, second, Modi is not India. The documentary was banned in India (Time) which naturally gave it greater publicity and increased curiosity in people. As is usual, the police responded with extreme malice. An unrepentant BBC published an article on how the Indian government is terrorising journalists in Kashmir. "The BBC has spent more than a year investigating accusations against the Indian government that it is running a sinister and systematic campaign to intimidate and silence the press in the region." BBC. Not just Kashmir. "Police in the Indian capital, Delhi, have raided the homes of prominent journalists and authors in connection with an investigation into the funding of news website NewsClick." BBC. Apparently because it received funds from China. This follows from a report in the New York Times that NewsClick received money from Neville Roy Singham who is a communist, lives in Shanghai and is "associated with the propaganda arm of the Communist Party of China (CPC)". ET. The Wire has analysed stories on NewsClick and found that all the journalists arrested had been critical of Mr Modi and the government but not publicists for China. Prof Gyan Prakash, who wrote the book, The Emergency Chronicles, Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point, says that the Modi government is much more dangerous. Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency in India for 21 months, from 25 June 1975 to 21 March 1977. "The Emergency is often regarded as a dark phase in independent India's history because this period was marked by unbridled state incarceration, stifling of dissent, and government crackdown on civil liberties." HT. The Modi government is much more dangerous because: Firstly, it wants to control what citizens think and, second, which is much much worse is "to achieve total domination of the person by killing the juridical person in a human being or in a citizen. And you do that by creating a system of law, outside the normal penal system ." Instead of using the normal system, "You charge him through the UAPA (Unlawful Activities [Prevention] Amendment Act), which creates a completely different circle around this person." "The concentration camp was outside the normal penal system. People who went there, had no right! ...and so you create a criminal, you create a terrorist by completely killing all the juridical protection a citizen has, or a human being has in a system of law." The Wire. The danger is, even if Modi loses power, the next government will continue with these pernicious laws because they provide complete power over the people. At least the Americans liberated Jews from Nazi concentration camps (images). Who will liberate us?     

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