Dubious group screens banned BBC documentary on Gujarat Riots in Australian Parliament

On May 24, whereas Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Australia, a bunch known as ‘We The Diaspora’ screened the controversial BBC documentary on Gujarat Riots inside the Australian Parliament House. The Government of India banned the documentary in January 2023. The opening deal with given was Haroon Kasim adopted by the screening of the documentary.

Furthermore, the daughter of jailed former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, Dr Aakashi Bhatt, spoke on the event on the topic “Gujarat Pogrom and Prime Minister Modi”. It was adopted by a panel dialogue with Aakashi, Professor Mohan Dutta of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), Aakar Patel of Amnesty India and Senator Jordan Steele John and David Shoebridge.

The screening was organised by We The Diaspora in collaboration with CARE, Hindus for Human Rights (Australia and New Zealand), Amnesty International, Periyar Ambedkar Thoughts Circle-Australia (PATC-A) and The Humanism Project.

The group ‘We The Diaspora’

OpIndia tried to go looking out information on the group that organised the screening. We could not uncover who runs the group or any key members of it. There are plenty of experiences on completely totally different media retailers that talked regarding the screening of the film and they also all talked about that SBS News quoted We The Diaspora speaking regarding the screening.

When we checked SBS News, there was only one report on the screening of the documentary and it had no level out of the group We The Diaspora. The group appears to haven’t any social media presence. There was only one event organised by them which was a screening of this documentary. Maybe the panellists like Aakashi, Aakar and Mohan may make clear who these individuals are.

Meet Haroon Kasim

Haroon Kasim is the founding member of Australia-based anti-Hindu group The Humanism Project. The group was moreover behind the screening fo the film. A Kashmiri Separatist, Kasim has been close to Khalistani outfits and Jamat-i-Islami’s Kashmir propaganda entrance Stand With Kashmir. He may also be linked to the International Council of Indian Muslims.

When CAA protests have been occurring, he had talked about, “The CAA law in India is going to result in a lot of Muslims losing their citizenship. Amnesty International called it the largest statelessness exercise in the history of the world. Detention camps have already been built in Assam. These are very strong similarities with Nazi Germany.”

The problematic background of Aakar Patel

Aakar Patel was the chair of Amnesty International’s India chapter, Amnesty India. The organisation closed its India Chapter closed its retailer utterly in 2020 after Indian investigation companies initiated a probe into FCRA violations and totally different actions. Since then, Amnesty India is barely energetic on social media and Aakar Patel periodically reveals his creepy obsession with PM Modi. In many pictures and posts on social media, Patel has added a bobblehead of PM Modi.

Recently, apart from caring inside the screening of a documentary in Australia, Amnesty India has laid down three requires from the newly elected Congress authorities in Karnataka that included revoking a ban on cow slaughter, hijab in tutorial institutions and religious conversions. They moreover demanded movement in opposition to Hindus who title for a boycott of Muslim corporations.

Crimes of Amnesty International

There have been plenty of conditions the place Amnesty International and its Indian chapter have overtly labored in opposition to India and its of us. In a report revealed in OpIndia in 2019, the connections between Amnesty International India, the British authorities, and radical Islamists have been uncovered. The organisation has a historic previous of meddling with the inside affairs of India. It has constantly been making an attempt to falsely enterprise India as a violator of human rights and the ‘oppressor’ of Muslims.

Amnesty India and its former head Aakar Patel saved peddling blatant lies and fake info to portray India negatively. It moreover campaigned for the arrested Urban Naxals inside the Bhima Koregaon violence case. Therefore, its actions are clearly tantamount to abroad interference inside the dwelling issues with India, and it is solely acceptable that strict movement is taken in opposition to it.

There is an ongoing investigation in opposition to Amnesty in India. In October 2022, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) linked belongings value Rs 1.54 crore of Amnesty International India beneath the anti-money laundering laws for alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act making all the linked belongings value over 21 crores. “A provisional order for attachment has been issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). With this attachment, the total attachment now stands at Rs 21.08 crores”, the ED talked about.

According to the experiences, the order has been issued in opposition to the so-called NGO perception named Indians for Amnesty International Trust (IAIT), in reference to a case involving an alleged breach of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). The ED issued an announcement that the group carried out NGO actions inside the guise of corporations export and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to flee the FCRA authorized tips.

Meet Senator Jordon Steele-John

Senator Jordon Steele-John is a politician at Australian Greens and an advocate for disabled rights. Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Australia, he, deputy chief of Greens Mehreen Faruqi and Senator David Shoebridge wrote a letter to the Australian PM and Foreign Minister urging them to spice up human rights violation factors in India.

@MehreenFaruqi , @DavidShoebridge and I’ve written to the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister urging them to spice up human rights violations in India all through Prime Minister Modi’s upcoming go to to Australia. #auspol pic.twitter.com/UshDqdVQD7

— Senator Jordon Steele-John (@SenatorJordon) May 18, 2023

In the letter they claimed that the Indian diaspora residing in Australia along with Punjabis, Kashmiris, Muslims and Sikhs have expressed concern over so-called human rights violations in India and they also have been nervous about their kinfolk. They accused PM Modi of working an aggressive right-wing nationalist agenda. In one different tweet, he claimed PM Modi was a key participant in anti-Muslim rights with out displaying any proof.

Labor have to be fixed in its response to human rights abuses in our space. Modi has been a key participant in anti-Muslim riots & promoting Hindu nationalism. Friends are reliable with eachother. The PMs journey to India is a perfect different to spice up points with Modi #auspoI

— Senator Jordon Steele-John (@SenatorJordon) March 9, 2023

Furthermore, they talked concerning the 2022 Press Freedom Index 2022 score of India that extra slipped from the sooner 12 months. They moreover talked a number of report known as Early Warning Project that ranked India as a result of the eighth nation to have the very best risk of mass killing in 2022 and 2023. They quoted the report that claimed Muslim rights have been being suppressed in India and there have been requires mass killings of Muslims by religious leaders in December 2021. They moreover recognized that Muslim-owned properties have been bulldozed by the authorities.

Notably, OpIndia has debunked the Press Freedom Ranking and confirmed how they used outdated experiences filled with misinformation and uncertain info to help the score.

2022 has handed and almost half of 2023 has already handed. There have been no incidents of so-called mass killings of Muslims. However, what occurred in India was the choice. The so-called fact-checker Mohammed Zubair who’s the co-founder of propaganda portal Alt News canine whistled in opposition to former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma using an edited video from a debate. The state of affairs spiralled proper right into a sequence of murders of Hindus who supported Sharma. Hindu tailor Kanhaiya Lal from Udaipur was beheaded. Hindu businessman Umesh Kohle was murdered in Amravati.

There have been plenty of totally different incidents the place Hindus have been killed or threatened within the occasion that they supported Nupur Sharma. Notably, Sharma continues to be residing away from public life with a bounty on her life. On the other hand, Taslim Ahmed Rehmani, who used derogatory language for Bhagwan Shiv and instigated Sharma to retaliate, is roaming free. Rehmani is a Muslim. He was not even touched. There should not any complaints in opposition to him. He continued to participate in debates. Sharma, who solely retaliated to what he talked about, has to look over her shoulder for the rest of her life.

Authorities have bulldozed plenty of properties all through states and most of them happen to be Muslim-owned. However, the home homeowners of those properties have been each encroaching on authorities lands and/or have been involved in authorized actions along with riots. Not even a single property was razed with out prior uncover. Providing half-baked information inside the letter to the PM and Foreign Minister reveals how propaganda and misinformation in opposition to India have deep roots not even in India however moreover in abroad worldwide places.

Meet Senator David Shoebridge

David Shoebridge is a Greens Senator for NSW. He was considered one of many panellists inside the dialogue following the documentary on PM Modi. He was moreover a signatory of the letter written to the Australian PM and Foreign Minister.

Notably, Shoebridge has been sympathetic to anti-India voices for a protracted. He appeared in discussions with a bunch known as “Stand With Kashmir” which is linked to Jamat-e-Islami.  Stand With Kashmir (SWK) as an example, is taken under consideration as “one of the most influential voices in America on the subject of Kashmir.”

.@Greens cavort with terrorist sympathisers and help Pakistan- sponsored terrorism in opposition to #India and #Hindus. Adam Bandt and David Shoebridge sympathetic to Jamat-e-Islami’s Stand With Kashmir whereas Lee Rhiannon is pally with terrorist Yasin Mallick’s partner Mushaal Mallick. https://t.co/PSaAACQd7W pic.twitter.com/Ze9Ecnjsa9

— Stop Hindu Hate Advocacy Network (SHHAN) (@HinduHate) May 19, 2023

It is believed to be backed by Sikh progressivist groups paying homage to Ruthless Collective which was allegedly a British-Canadian Sikh group. SWK moreover coordinated with Organization for Minorities of India (OFMI) and the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) to stage a protest in opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act in December 2019.

SWK social media accounts and web pages are withheld in India.

CARE and Mohan J Dutta

One of the sponsors of the screening was the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE). Its chief at Massey University, Mohan J Dutta has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. From whataboutery to easy Hindu hate, his tweets are filled with propaganda.

In one tweet, he known as PM Modi an “Urban Nazi”. When PM Modi raised their voice in opposition to assaults on Temples in Australia in March this 12 months, he whitewashed it by calling it “graffiti resisting Hindutva amidst growing Hindutva violence in Australia”. He moreover took the path of whataboutery and spoke of the murder of missionary Graham Stuart Staines who was killed alongside collectively together with his family. Staines was accused of compelled religious conversions inside the establish of supporting the locals.

I could be speaking inside the Australian parliament on this panel after the screening of the BBC documentary “The Modi Question” that has been banned in India. @CAREMasseyNZ is humbled to companion with @AIIndia @HumanismProject @Hindus4HR pic.twitter.com/cCf2uigzrr

— Mohan J Dutta (@mjdutt) May 21, 2023
Hindus for Human Rights (Australia and New Zealand)

Hindus for Human Rights is an anti-India and anti-Hindu organisation. Its Australia and New Zealand chapter was considered one of many organisations behind the screening.

In 2022, OpIndia reported that  ‘Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR)’ had been promoting the misleading narrative of ‘Hindu Vs Hindutva’. The equivalent organisation was moreover seen endorsing the ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ event.

HfHR was usual inside the 12 months 2019 by two Islamist advocacy groups named Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC) and the Organization for Minorities of India (OFMI). Interestingly, the three organisations had usual one different outfit known as the Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA).

the co-founder of Hindus for Human Rights moreover runs an organisation named ‘Women for Afghan Women’, which is funded by the Soros Open Society Foundation.

The group CARE has already deliberate one different screening of the documentary on June 24. As the General Elections are approaching in India, anti-India, anti-Hindu and anti-BJP forces are working at full functionality to change the regime on the centre.

The Sanjiv Bhatt saga

Sanjiv Bhatt is a former police officer who claimed that then-Chief Minister Narendra Modi was involved in Gujarat Riots in 2002 and he stopped the police from taking any movement in opposition to rioters. Furthermore, from time to time, Sanjib and his family have claimed that the Gujarat authorities and later the Indian authorities, after Narendra Modi turned PM, conspired in opposition to Bhatt. His daughter has been a vocal critic of the Modi authorities and propagated misinformation and lies about Gujarat Riots 2002 on plenty of platforms. Sanjiv Bhatt is for the time being going by life imprisonment for a custodial lack of life. Our detailed experiences on Bhatt might be seen proper right here.