I wish to congratulate you for publishing the report from Geneva about the U. N. Human Rights Commission. What Dr. Laxmi Berwa represented to the Commission was what is happening everyday in India and how the Govt. seems to be least worried about them simply because the victims of the daily murders, rapes, burning etc are either the poor outcastes and tribals or the other Indian persecuted minorities, such as the Muslims, Christians, Sikhs etc.
However, I am least surprised, though terribly angered, to see an Indian Muslim. judge telling the UN Commission that there is no human rights violation in India and thus no use of appointing a Human Rights Commission to look into the abuses. It is well known that all the Indian political parties without any exception always play the game of picking up yes-men and other boneless “leaders” among the minorities (Dr. Ambedkar called these as second-class Brahmins) who would do anything for personal gain and tell out-right lies to the world like what Syed Masud did in Geneva.
Masud should have obviously forgotten the most serious Moradabad riot in which about 1,000 Muslims were reported killed while doing Id prayers? Did he not know the recent killing of the poor Christian fishermen in Kanyakumari by the RSS gundas? How about the killing, raping and burning the poor outcastes in Belchi, Agra, Marathwada, Villupuram, Deoli, Bhagpat and Puliangudi – to mention the recent ones, not even bringing up the numerous bloody massacres of the past? Does he need to be told about the countless Adivasi and outcaste women’s breasts being burnt with cigarette butts and their nipples being cut off by the police? Does Masud not know the series of blinding of men’s eyes who belong to the downtrodden society? What does Syed Masud call all these atrocities committed on the poor and innocent people? Are they not human rights violations or in India, according to the Hindu Code, these are not violations because the lives of all persecuted minorities are less important than the cats, dogs and cows.
I am not sure on what basis Masud made such a statement that there is no human right violation in India. I am not even asking him this question as a true Muslim, but I am asking him just as a plain human being. I do not think the millions of persecuted minorities including Muslims are going to forgive him for all the sufferings that they go through under the clutches of the barbarous Hindu system protected and patronized by the Government and the police. He has done a great injustice to the human sufferings. If there is any level of human rights violation, that is at its Everest peak in India. Masud can hide today from the eyes of the world but not forever.
It is highly deplorable that the Indian government has to get clarification from the British government for Dr. Berwa’s simple conversation with Whitakar. Does he not have the freedom to talk to anyone? Does Dr. Berwa need someone else telling him about his people’s sufferings in India? Before the Indian External Affairs Ministry sought clarification from the British government it would be sensible for them to get a clarification from the U.P. government why it did not allow the Central government appointed Minority Commission to visit places where the Muslims were killed in riots.
