Every year on December 18 Minority Rights Day is celebrated in India and India topped the list of atrocities on minorities.
Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, and lower caste Hindus are forced to live ‘worse’ than human beings in India as over 20,000 Muslims have been martyred in India from 1964 to 2022.
On April 21, 2022, 50 thousand houses of Muslims were demolished in the state of Hyderabad, and in 2023, 400 incidents of violence against Christians were reported in 23 states of India. On August 25, Indian extremists killed hundreds of Christians and burned 600 villages in the Kandhamal district of Orissa.
Sikh riots intensified after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, in which around 17,000 Sikhs were killed.
As per DW, 60,000 crimes against Dalit Hindus were reported. On average, an incident of violence against a Dalit occurs every 10 minutes in 2012.
National Crime Bureau said that over 250,000 hate crimes against lower castes were reported in the last 5 years while as per the report US Institute on Religious Affairs, there have been systematic attacks on Muslims, Christians and Dalits in India.
The head of the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom said that religious freedom in India has suffered a sharp decline under the Modi regime.
Since 2020, the US Commission on Religious Affairs has included India in the list of countries of concern and human rights organizations have declared India as a dangerous country for minorities.
