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nternationally ac- Preparation on for human rights there. None of
claimed expert Dr the guidelines and standard
Greggory Stanton has operating procedures to
raised his concerns genocide in India? carry out NRC exercise has
I about possible mass been followed.
extermination of Muslims
while briefing the US Con- uch exercise is flawed
gress on situation in Kash- Persecution of the community members in and violative of the
mir and Assam. Dr. Stanton, Assam and Kashmir is the stage just before mass S Constitution of India.
founder of Genocide Watch, extermination, my siddiqui quotes Dr Greggory It was also stated how the
addressed an audience of Citizenship (Amendment)
Congressional and govern- Stanton of Genocide Watch as saying Act intended to bring untold
ment officials at a brief- sufferings to people across
ing on Ground Reports Other stages involve Rwanda and the Burundi the country and damage
on Kashmir and National creating an “organization” Commission of Inquiry, the fundamentally and ir-
Register of Citizens (NRC) to commit the genocide like two countries where geno- reparably the nature of
in Washington DC last year, the role of Indian army in cide had occurred. Dr. Stan- the Indian Republic. This is
where he said, “Preparation Kashmir and the census tak- ton is a former President of why citizens of conscience
for a genocide is definitely ers in Assam”, sixth stage be- International Association of demanded to not betray
underway in India”. ing “polarization” achieved Genocide Scholars, whose the Constitution. It was
He said persecution
of Muslims in Assam and
Kashmir “is the stage just
before genocide”, adding,
“The next stage is extermi-
nation — that’s what we call
a genocide”. In this context,
Dr Stanton articulated “Ten
Stages of Genocide’ as a
presentation to the US De-
partment of State where he
had worked earlier in 1996.
According to Dr Stanton,
the 10 stages of genocide
are: classification of “us
versus them”, “symboliza-
tion”, naming the victims as
“foreigner”, “discrimination”
“classified (the victims out
of the group accepted for
citizenship” so that they
have no “human rights or
civil rights of citizens” and
“discriminated against legal- by propaganda, the seventh research on genocides in also explained a wide scale
ly”, dehumanization, “when stage “preparation” followed Cambodia, Rwanda and of repression was going on
the genocidal spiral begins by “persecution” where As- the Rohingyas is recognised in Kashmir since August 5,
to go downwards, clarifying sam and Kashmir currently worldwide. 2019. The US Congressional
the others as worse than are, the ninth stage being Others who briefed the briefing was organized by
them, giving names like “extermination”, and the US Congress included Dr three US based civil society
“terrorists” or even names of tenth stage “denial”. Angana Chatterji, a scholar organisations, Engage Ac-
animals, stating referring to Dr Stanton is known with UC Berkeley and a Jam- tion, Hindus for Human
them as cancer in the body to have drafted the UN mu and Kashmir Journalist Rights, and Indian American
politic, talking about them Security Council resolutions Raqib Hameed Naik. It was Muslim Council.
as a disease that must be that created the Interna- stated that the NRC in As-
somehow dealt with”. tional Criminal Tribunal on sam is being used to subvert LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM

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