Three days of hate speech summit in northern India calls for majority Hindus to pick up weapons and kill minority Muslims, sparking outrage and demands of action against speakers
Speakers cite the 2017 atrocities against Rohingya Muslims and their exodus from Myanmar, a policy they say could be followed in India as well.
Leaders of several far-right groups with ties to the ruling Narendra Modi's government have called for ethnic cleansing of minorities in India, especially the country's, in a three-day summit, according to local media and videos on social media, sparking widespread outrage and calls for their immediate arrest.
The three-day hate speech conclave was held by the controversial Hindutva figure Yati Narsinghanand from December 17 to 19 in northern India's Haridwar city, where multiple speakers made calls to annihilate minorities and attack their religious spaces,"Economic boycott won't work. Hindu groups need to update themselves. Swords look good on stage only.
Another speaker Sadhvi Annapurna, general secretary of the Hindu Mahasabha [Hindu Grand Assembly], called for the mass murder of Muslims, according to the English news website"Nothing is possible without weapons. If you want to eliminate their population then kill them. Be ready to kill and be ready to go to jail. Even if 100 of us are ready to kill 20 lakhs of them , then we will be victorious, and go to jail," Annapurna said.
The Wire said the summit witnessed an "extraordinary quantity of hate speech, mobilisations to violence and anti-Muslim sentiment."
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