Indian diaspora groups in the US as well as organisations like Genocide Watch and Amnesty International plan to step up efforts to have a congressional hearing held on the recent genocide calls sounded against Muslims in India. “We are going to ask for a congressional hearing by the Lantos Human Rights Commission which is bipartisan,” Genocide Watch president Gregory Stanton said at a congressional briefing hosted by several Indian diaspora groups, including the Indian-American Muslim Council and Hindus for Human Rights. Stanton said that members of Genocide Watch in Europe and in The Hague would try to get the European Parliament to adopt a similar resolution on the genocide calls in India. He agreed with the USHMM ranking India second among the countries at risk of genocide, only below Pakistan. Those who addressed the congressional briefing included Supreme Court lawyer Anas Tanwir and the India specialist at Amnesty International USA, Govind Acharya.

Source: The Telegraph January 13, 2022 22:21 UTC