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petition seeking independent inqui- asked “the US Congress to pass curs it will require us to re-assess all Modi and the discriminatory policies
ry into the alleged hate speeches in a resolution that warns genocide our relations with India.” of Myanmar’s government against
Haridwar and Delhi. should not be allowed to occur in In- Stanton said genocide was not Rohingya Muslims in 2017.
The plea sought the arrest dia”. Stanton also said: “(President an event but a process and drew par- Stanton, a former lecturer in
and trial of people who made hate Joe) Biden should tell (Prime Min- allels between the policies pursued genocide studies and prevention at
speeches, inciting violence towards ister Narendra) Modi if genocide oc- by Indian Prime Minister Narendra the George Mason University in Vir-
Muslims, at the Haridwar Dharma ginia, said he feared a similar scenar-
Sansad conclave and in Delhi by io to Myanmar, where the Rohingya
‘Hindu Yuva Vahini’. were first legally declared non-cit-
The hate speeches were alleged- izens and then expelled through vi-
ly delivered between December 17 olence and genocide. “What we are
and 19, 2021, in Haridwar by Yati now facing is a very similar kind of a
Narsinghanand and in Delhi by plot,” he said.
‘Hindu Yuva Vahini’. Stanton said the Hindutva ide-
The plea said that the alleged ology was “contrary to the history
hate speeches consisted of open calls of India and the Indian constitution
for genocide of Muslims in order to and referred to Modi as an “extrem-
achieve ethnic cleansing. ist who has taken over the govern-
Earlier, Haridwar Police arrest- ment”.
ed Yati Narsinganand for alleged In 1989, Stanton said he had
inflammatory speeches at Haridwar warned the then-Rwandan president
‘Dharma Sansad’. A case was regis- Juvénal Habyarimana that “if you
tered against Yati Narsinganand in don’t do something to prevent geno-
Haridwar for making inflammatory cide in your country, there is going to
speeches in the ‘Dharam Sansad’ in be a genocide here within five years”.
Haridwar and for commenting on The early warning signs were
girls in the city Kotwali Haridwar. followed by the massacre of 800,000
Meanwhile in Washington, DC, Gregory Stanton has compared the threat of genocide in India with the situation of the Rohing- Tutsis and other Rwandans in 1994.
Gregory Stanton, the founding pres- ya people in Myanmar (ANI) “We cannot let that happen in In-
ident of Genocide Watch, said he’s dia,” Stanton said.

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