Indien Meldungen 03 - ab 1.3.2024

präsentiert von Michael Palomino

Delhi am 3.4.2024: Verfolgung von Muslimen mit Vertreibung - illegale Quartiere dienen als Instrument, um Muslime zu erpressen oder Häuser abzureissen:
Held für Obdachlose: Haus eines muslimischen Mannes nach Indien-Tunnelrettung abgerissen
(ENGL: Hero to homeless: House of Muslim man behind India tunnel rescue demolished)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/3/hero-to-homeless-house-of-muslim-man-behind-india-tunnel-rescue-demolished

Dt. Übersetzung:
Von Arbab Ali - Der Rattenfänger Wakeel Hasan wurde im November zum Nationalhelden, nachdem er 41 in einem Tunnel im Himalaya eingeschlossene Männer gerettet hatte. Jetzt steht er auf der Straße, nachdem die Behörden sein Haus mit einem Bulldozer abgerissen haben.

Neu-Delhi, Indien - Wakeel Hasan musste über die 1,8 Meter hohe Mauer seines Nachbarn klettern, um das mit Schutt gefüllte Grundstück zu betreten, auf dem noch am Vortag sein Haus stand.
Die Polizei hatte die Vorderseite des Grundstücks verbarrikadiert, auf dem sein Haus, ein einstöckiges Haus mit zwei Schlafzimmern, das seine Familie seit über einem Jahrzehnt bewohnte, am Mittwoch von den Behörden in Khajuri Khas, einem dicht besiedelten Viertel in Indiens Hauptstadt Neu-Delhi, abgerissen wurde.
Einen Tag später stand er auf den Trümmern seines Hauses und hatte Tränen im Gesicht, als er Ziegelsteine und Holzbretter beseitigte, um die Schulbücher seiner 15-jährigen Tochter Aliza zu bergen, die am Donnerstag ihre Jahresprüfung der 10. Klasse haben sollte.
"Ich kann mir dieses zerstörte Haus nicht einmal ansehen, ohne zu weinen", sagte Hasan gegenüber Al Jazeera.
Noch vor drei Monaten war Hasan ein Nationalheld und hatte für Schlagzeilen gesorgt, weil er 41 Bauarbeiter gerettet hatte, die mehr als zwei Wochen lang in einem Tunnel im Himalaya eingeschlossen waren.
Sein Team von so genannten "Rattenlochbergleuten" wurde in den nördlichen Bundesstaat Uttarakhand gerufen, nachdem es professionellen Rettern mit Tunnelbohrmaschinen wiederholt nicht gelungen war, die eingeschlossenen Arbeiter zu erreichen. Eine Nation von 1,5 Milliarden Menschen hielt kollektiv den Atem an, als die Rattenlochminenarbeiter im November 26 Stunden lang von Hand gruben, um die Verschütteten zu befreien.
Hasan und sein Team erhielten für ihre Leistung landesweite Anerkennung, darunter Lob von Premierminister Narendra Modi und ein Selfie mit Bollywood-Superstar Shah Rukh Khan. Es wurden Geldpreise ausgelobt, und Fernsehsender interviewten Hasan und sein Team von Rattenfängern tagelang.
Nur drei Monate später wurde Hasans Leben auf den Kopf gestellt, als er einen verzweifelten Anruf seiner Tochter erhielt, während er in einem Geschäft Lebensmittel einkaufte.

Aus dem Haus gezerrt
Aliza sagte, dass Polizeibeamte zu ihrem Haus gekommen seien, um es abzureißen, und dass sie zusammen mit ihrem älteren Bruder Azeem an der Tür gestanden habe, um die Polizei am Eindringen zu hindern. Es war etwa 9:30 Uhr morgens.
Bald darauf stürmte ein halbes Dutzend Polizeibeamte, darunter einige Frauen, in das Haus und schlugen angeblich Aliza und Azeem, wobei der Angriff von einer Menschenmenge, die sich inzwischen versammelt hatte, mit der Kamera aufgenommen wurde.
"Ich wurde von den weiblichen Polizisten geohrfeigt, und Azeem wurde herumgeschubst, geschlagen und beschimpft. Dann wurden wir aus dem Haus gezerrt und in ein Polizeiauto geworfen", so Aliza gegenüber Al Jazeera.
Als Hasan zu Hause ankam, sah er, wie Beamte der Delhi Development Authority (DDA), der Regierungsorganisation, die für die Planung und Entwicklung von Infrastrukturprojekten in der Hauptstadt zuständig ist, versuchten, sein Haus mit großen Presslufthämmern abzureißen.
Bevor Hasan etwas tun oder sagen konnte, begann ein Bulldozer, das Gebäude abzureißen.
Die DDA behauptete, Hasans Haus sei illegal auf staatlichem Land gebaut worden. In einer Erklärung hieß es, Hassans Familie sei vor dem Abriss informiert worden und habe genügend Zeit gehabt, das Haus zu räumen.
Hasan behauptet, er sei nicht vorher informiert worden und habe die rechtlichen Dokumente, die beweisen, dass es sich um sein Haus handelt, einschließlich einer von der Regierung ausgestellten Stromrechnung.
"Sie behaupten, die Aktion sei Teil einer Abrissaktion von illegalen Häusern, aber sie haben nur ein einziges Haus abgerissen: meines", sagte er gegenüber Al Jazeera.
Die DDA und die Polizei in Neu-Delhi werden von Modis Zentralregierung kontrolliert, obwohl in der Hauptstadt eine Oppositionspartei regiert.
Als die DDA zu der Aktion befragt wurde, erklärte sie, es handele sich um eine Routineaktion, die nicht diskriminierend sei und sich nicht gegen eine bestimmte Person richte.

Weil ich einer Minderheitengemeinschaft angehöre?
Hasan hat jedoch eine andere Geschichte zu erzählen. "Ich habe ihnen erzählt, was ich in Uttarakhand getan habe. Als alle ihre Maschinen ausgefallen waren, gruben wir die Arbeiter aus. Ich hoffte, dass sie mein Haus nicht abreißen würden", sagte er.
Doch das Gegenteil war der Fall.
"Als ich ihnen meinen Namen nannte, fühlte es sich an, als ob das bisschen Reue und Mitleid, das sie hatten, sie verließ", sagte er. "Ich verstehe nicht, warum man es auf mich abgesehen hatte. War es, weil ich einer Minderheit angehöre?"
Die Arbeitsrechtsaktivistin Sucheta De hält den Abriss für illegal und kriminell. "Wenn wir uns die vergangenen Fälle von Abrissen ansehen, sieht es so aus, als seien sie gezielt, armuts- und minderheitenfeindlich", sagte sie gegenüber Al Jazeera.
Die Anwältin Kawalpreet Kaur, die sich häufig mit Abrissfällen befasst und Hasans Fall aufmerksam verfolgt, meinte, wenn Hasans Grundstück tatsächlich so viele Jahre lang illegal gewesen sei, müsse die Regierung Fragen beantworten.
"Er hatte sich über ein Jahrzehnt in seinem Haus aufgehalten. Es stellt sich die Frage: Wenn die Regierung behauptet, es sei ihr Land, was hat sie dann so viele Jahre lang getan?", fragte sie und fügte hinzu, dass der Abriss "rachsüchtig" zu sein scheine, da nur Hasans Haus in der Nachbarschaft abgerissen worden sei.

[Gezielte politische Verfolgung von Mohammed-Fantasie-Muslimen in Delhi wie im Gazastreifen: Häuser zerstören, Muslime in die Obdachlosigkeit zwingen - Abrissaktionen vor den Wahlen sind normal als "Wahlkampf" - ganze Quartiere sind illegal gebaut]

Eine Geschichte von Bestechungsgeldern
In Neu-Delhi, einer Stadt mit mehr als 30 Millionen Einwohnern, gibt es viele Wohnviertel, die als "irregulär" bezeichnet werden - sie verfügen nicht über alle staatlichen Genehmigungen. Millionen von Einwohnern Delhis leben in diesen Vierteln, und zwar über Generationen hinweg. Dazu gehört auch ein erheblicher Teil der muslimischen Bevölkerung der Stadt, die 12 Prozent der Einwohner ausmacht und oft gezwungen ist, in solche Viertel umzuziehen, nachdem die Behörden zuvor ihre Häuser ins Visier genommen hatten.
Teile von Khajuri Khas sind irregulär. Einzelne Bewohner mögen zwar über Hausbesitzdokumente verfügen, aber der graue rechtliche Status solcher Viertel gibt Regierungen und lokalen Beamten Macht über die Bewohner, sagen Anwälte und Aktivisten. Die Macht, Ortschaften zu regularisieren, wie es Regierungen oft tun, um Wähler vor Wahlen zu umwerben, und so die Gefahr des Abrisses zu beseitigen, die sonst immer über den Bewohnern dieser Gemeinschaften schwebt. Oder die Macht, die Drohung wahr zu machen und die Häuser abzureißen.
"Ein großer Teil der Bevölkerung in Delhi ist immer von einem Abriss bedroht und kann von einem Abriss bedroht werden, wann immer die Regierung es wünscht", so De. "Es gibt keine Rechenschaftspflicht seitens der Regierung. Das ist die Realität in Delhi."
Oft ist die einzige Möglichkeit, einen vorübergehenden Aufschub zu erhalten, die Zahlung von Bestechungsgeldern.  Das, so Hasan, sei auch in Khajuri Khas der Fall.

[Laufend werden von den Muslimen Schmiergelder verlangt, damit ihre Häuser stehenbleiben]

Hasan sagt, dass die Behörden 2016 mit Bulldozern kamen und einen Teil seines Hauses abrissen. "Damals haben mein Nachbar und ich ihnen (insgesamt) 8 Lakhs [etwa 9.500 Dollar] [als Bestechungsgeld] gezahlt", sagte er.
Aber die von ihm bezahlten Beamten wurden in eine andere Abteilung versetzt, und ihre Nachfolger kamen und verlangten wieder Schmiergelder. "Die DDA-Beamten drohten mir, dass mein Haus abgerissen werden würde, wenn ich nicht bezahlte", sagte er. Er hatte nicht das Geld, um sie zu bestechen.
Dann, vor drei Monaten, kamen die Behörden, um die Häuser einiger Hindu-Nachbarn abzureißen, sagte Hasan. Doch der örtliche Abgeordnete Mohan Singh Bisht von Modis Hindu-Mehrheitspartei Bharatiya Janata Party intervenierte und stoppte den Abriss, sagte er.
"Als ich ihn jedoch an dem Tag anrief, an dem mein Haus abgerissen werden sollte, sagte er, er könne nichts tun", so Hasan.
Hasan glaubt, dass seine Unfähigkeit zu zahlen ein Hauptgrund für den Abriss seines Hauses am Mittwoch war. Dass er Muslim ist, machte ihn besonders angreifbar.
"Weil ich Muslim bin und weil ich Wakeel Hasan heiße, ist es für sie einfacher, mein Haus abzureißen", sagte er.

DDA-Sprecher Bijay Shankar Patel wies die Vorwürfe zurück. "Die Anschuldigungen sind nicht wahr", sagte er gegenüber Al Jazeera und weigerte sich, Einzelheiten zu den Gründen für den Abriss des Hauses zu nennen.
Der Abriss von Hasans Haus folgt jedoch dem Muster der staatlichen Behörden, die es auf muslimisches Eigentum und religiöse Strukturen in ganz Indien abgesehen haben, insbesondere in den von der BJP regierten Bundesstaaten.
Letzten Monat haben die Behörden in Neu-Delhi eine 600 Jahre alte Moschee abgerissen, die angeblich auf staatlichem Land steht. In der gleichen Woche wurden in der Stadt Haldwani in Uttarakhand mindestens fünf Menschen von der Polizei erschossen, nachdem sie gegen den Abriss einer jahrzehntealten Moschee und einer Schule protestiert hatten.
In zwei Berichten, die im vergangenen Monat veröffentlicht wurden, erklärte die Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty International, dass die indischen Behörden zwischen April und Juni 2022 mindestens 128 muslimische Häuser als "Strafmaßnahme" abreißen ließen, wodurch mindestens 617 Menschen entweder obdachlos wurden oder ihren Lebensunterhalt nicht mehr bestreiten konnten.
Als sein Haus abgerissen werden sollte, rief Hasan in seiner Verzweiflung Manoj Tiwari an, den BJP-Parlamentarier aus seinem Wahlkreis, der ihm bei seiner Rückkehr nach Neu-Delhi nach der Rettung des Tunnels in Uttarakhand einen Kranz überreicht hatte.

"Ich habe alle kontaktiert, aber sie haben meine Anrufe nicht beantwortet. Manoj Tiwari hatte mich beglückwünscht und kam sogar zu mir nach Hause. Ich habe ihn mehrmals angerufen. Selbst einen Tag nach der Sprengung hat er mich nicht zurückgerufen", sagte Hasan gegenüber Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera wandte sich an Tiwari, der sagte, der Abriss werde untersucht. "Ich habe den Beamten davon erzählt. Aber sie haben das Haus plötzlich abgerissen. Es ist eine Untersuchung", sagte er und fügte hinzu, dass er für ein besseres Haus für ihn sorgen würde, "legal".
"Ich habe mit dem Gouverneur von Delhi gesprochen und das Haus wurde gestern [Donnerstag] arrangiert, aber er hat es wegen der Entfernung abgelehnt. Jetzt kümmern wir uns um ein Haus in der Nähe", sagte Tiwari und fügte hinzu, dass der Abriss "keinen kommunalen Hintergrund" habe. Der Vizegouverneur ist ein vom Bund ernanntes nominelles Oberhaupt des Bundesstaates Delhi, das den Gouverneuren in anderen indischen Bundesstaaten entspricht.
Auf die Frage nach der wachsenden Zahl von Abrissen muslimischer Häuser sagte Tiwari: "Es könnte sich um eine Verschwörung gegen [die] BJP während der Wahlzeit handeln." In Indien finden im April und Mai Parlamentswahlen statt.

Sie hätten uns mit dem Haus begraben sollen
Um 9:40 Uhr am Mittwoch arbeitete Hasans Kollege Munna Qureshi auf einer 35 km entfernten Baustelle, als er einen Anruf von seinem Freund erhielt. Hasan erzählte ihm von den laufenden Abrissarbeiten. Qureshi, der zusammen mit Hasan Überlebende aus dem Tunnel in Uttarakhand ausgegraben hatte, eilte nach Khajuri Khas.
Dort, so sagt er, wurden Hasan und er von der Polizei festgehalten, und ihre Telefone wurden beschlagnahmt, während der Abriss weiterging.
"Auf der Polizeiwache wurde ich ins Gesicht geschlagen und beschimpft", sagte Qureshi, der in einer 2,4 bis 3 Meter großen Mietwohnung lebt, die etwa 400 Meter von Hasans abgerissenem Haus entfernt ist.
"Was soll ich mit all diesen Trophäen und Medaillen machen? Behandelt man so Leute, die das Land stolz machen?", sagte er, als er eine Kiste mit Medaillen und Preisen hochhielt, die er für die Tunnelrettung erhalten hatte.

Hasans Trophäen liegen unter den Trümmern seines Hauses.
Seine Frau Shabana war bei ihren Schwiegereltern in Modinagar, einer kleinen Stadt etwa 40 km von ihrem Haus entfernt, als der Abriss stattfand. Sie sagt, sie hätten das Haus 2013 für 3,3 Millionen Rupien (39.800 US-Dollar) gekauft.
"Wir hatten unser ganzes Leben lang gespart, um dieses Haus zu kaufen und zu bauen, und sie haben es in wenigen Minuten abgerissen. Wir haben uns Geld geliehen, unser Dorfland verkauft und unseren Hochzeitsschmuck veräußert, um dieses Haus zu kaufen", sagte sie und fügte hinzu, dass sie ihren Verwandten, von denen sie sich das Geld geliehen hatten, noch 1,2 Millionen Rupien (14.475 US-Dollar) schulden.
"Sie wussten, wer mein Mann war, aber sie haben trotzdem unser Haus abgerissen. Nur weil wir Muslime sind?", fragte Shabana.
Hasan sagt, er sei auf einen langwierigen Rechtsstreit vorbereitet. "Ich bin nicht sehr hoffnungsvoll, aber wir werden uns keinen Zentimeter bewegen, bis wir unser Haus zurückbekommen", sagte er, während die Familie auf einem beschädigten Bett am Straßenrand saß und aß. Über ihren Köpfen hing eine rote Plane, die von Nachbarn zur Verfügung gestellt wurde.
"Sie hätten uns mit dem Haus begraben sollen", schluchzte Hasans Tochter Aliza.
"Ist das ein Leben, in dem wir auf einer Holzpritsche am Straßenrand sitzen müssen?"
Quelle: Al Jazeera

orig. ENGL:

By Arbab Ali - Rat-miner Wakeel Hasan was a national hero in November, after helping rescue 41 men trapped in a Himalayan tunnel. Now, he’s on the streets, after authorities bulldozed his house.

New Delhi, India – Wakeel Hasan had to climb his neighbour’s 1.8-metre (six-foot) wall to enter the rubble-filled plot of land where his house stood only a day earlier.
The police had barricaded the front of the land where his home, a single-floored, two-bedroom house that his family had called home for over a decade, was demolished on Wednesday by the authorities in Khajuri Khas, a densely populated neighbourhood in India’s capital, New Delhi.
A day later, he stood on the rubble of his house, tears rolling down his face as he overturned bricks and wood planks to try and recover his 15-year-old daughter Aliza’s textbooks, who had to miss her 10th standard annual examination on Thursday.
“I can’t even look at this demolished home and not cry,” Hasan told Al Jazeera.
Only three months ago, Hasan was a national hero and had made headlines for rescuing 41 construction workers trapped in a Himalayan tunnel for more than two weeks.
His team of so-called “rat-hole miners” was called to the northern Uttarakhand state after professional rescuers armed with tunnel drilling machines repeatedly failed to reach the trapped workers. A nation of 1.5 billion people held its collective breath as the rat-hole miners dug by hand for 26 hours to free the buried men in November.
Hasan and his team received national recognition for their feat, including praise from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a selfie with Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. Cash awards were announced and TV channels interviewed Hasan and his team of rat miners for days.
Only three months later, Hasan’s life turned upside down when he got a frantic call from his daughter while at a shop buying groceries.

‘Dragged out of the house’
Aliza said police officers had arrived at their house to demolish it and that she, along with her older brother Azeem, was standing against the door to prevent the police from entering. It was about 9:30 in the morning.
Soon, half a dozen police officers, some of them female, barged into the house and allegedly hit Aliza and Azeem, the assault caught on camera by people in a crowd that had gathered by now.
“I was slapped by the female police personnel and Azeem was pushed around, slapped and verbally abused. We were then dragged out of the house and thrown into a police car,” Aliza told Al Jazeera.
When Hasan reached home, he saw officials from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), the government organisation in charge of planning and development of infrastructure projects in the capital, attempting to demolish his house with large hammers.
Before Hasan could do or say anything, a bulldozer began tearing the structure down.
The DDA claimed Hasan’s house was built illegally on government land. In a statement, it said Hassan’s family was informedbeforeo the demolition and that they were given enough time to evacuate.
Hasan says no prior notice was given and that he had the legal documents to prove it was his house, including an electricity bill issued by the government.
“They claim the act was part of a demolition drive of illegal properties, yet they only demolished one property: mine,” he told Al Jazeera.
The DDA and the police in New Delhi are controlled by Modi’s central government, even though an opposition party governs the capital.
When the DDA was asked about the action, it said it was routine, non-discriminatory and targeted no particular individual.
‘Because I’m from a minority community?’
However, Hasan has a different story to tell. “I told them what I did in Uttarakhand. When all their machines had failed, we dug those workers out. I hoped they would consider not demolishing my house,” he said.

The opposite happened.
“When I told them my name it felt as if what little remorse and pity they had left them,” he said. “I don’t understand why I was targeted. Was it because I am from a minority community?”
Labour rights activist Sucheta De says the demolition was both illegal and criminal. “If we see the past instances of demolitions, it looks targeted, anti-poor and anti-minority,” she told Al Jazeera.
Lawyer Kawalpreet Kaur, who often takes up demolition cases and is closely following Hasan’s, suggested that if indeed Hasan’s property was illegal for so many years, it was the government that needed to answer questions.
“He had been staying in his house for over a decade. The question arises: if the government claims it was their land, what had they been doing for so many years?” she asked, adding that the demolition appeared to be “vindictive” as only Hasan’s house was demolished in the neighbourhood.
2. Munna Qureshi, 29, shows a photo on his phone showing himself, Hasan, and another rat-hole miner after tunnel rescue. [Md Meharban/Al Jazeera]

A tale of bribes
Across New Delhi, a city of more than 30 million people, many residential neighbourhoods are what are known as “irregular” — they do not have all government approvals. Millions of Delhiites live in them, spanning generations. That includes a significant chunk of the city’s Muslim population, which constitutes 12 percent of the city’s residents, and is often forced to relocate to such neighbourhoods after previous targeting of their homes by authorities.
Parts of Khajuri Khas are irregular. While individual residents might have home ownership documents, the grey legal stature of such neighbourhoods gives governments and local officials power over residents, say lawyers and activists. The power to regularise localities, as governments often do to woo voters before elections, eliminating the threat of demolition that otherwise always hovers over those living in these communities. Or, the power to deliver on the threat and demolish homes.
“A large section of the population in Delhi is always under the threat of demolition and can face demolition whenever the government wishes,” De said. “There is no accountability from the government. This is the reality in Delhi.”
Often, the only way to get a temporary reprieve is to pay bribes.  That, Hasan claims, is also the case in Khajuri Khas.

Hasan says that in 2016, authorities came with bulldozers and demolished a portion of his house. “That is when my neighbour and I paid (in total) INR 8 lakhs [about $9,500] to them [as a bribe],” he said.
But the officials he paid transferred to another department, and their replacements came asking for bribes again. “I was threatened by the DDA officials that if I didn’t pay up my house would be demolished,” he said. He didn’t have the money to bribe them.
Then, three months ago, authorities arrived to demolish the homes of a few Hindu neighbours, Hasan said. But the local legislator Mohan Singh Bisht, from Modi’s Hindu majoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party,  intervened and stopped the demolition, he said.
“However, when I called him on the day my house was being demolished, he said he couldn’t do anything,” Hasan said.
Hasan believes that his inability to pay up was a key reason his house was demolished on Wednesday. That he is Muslim made him especially vulnerable.
“Because I am Muslim and because my name is Wakeel Hasan, it is easier for them to demolish my home,” he said.

DDA spokesperson Bijay Shankar Patel denied the charges. “The allegations are not true,” he told Al Jazeera, refusing to offer details on why the house was demolished.
Yet, the bulldozing of Hasan’s home follows a pattern of government agencies targeting Muslim properties and religious structures across India, especially in states governed by the BJP.
Last month, authorities in New Delhi razed a 600-year-old mosque allegedly encroaching on government land. In the same week, at least five people were shot dead by the police in Uttarakhand’s Haldwani town after they protested the demolition of a decades-old mosque and a school.
In two reports published last month, rights group Amnesty International said Indian authorities conducted the “punitive” demolition of at least 128 Muslim properties between April and June 2022, rendering at least 617 people either homeless or without livelihoods.
When his house was being demolished, Hasan, in a desperate move, telephoned Manoj Tiwari, the BJP parliamentarian from his constituency who had garlanded him when he returned to New Delhi after the Uttarakhand tunnel rescue.

“I contacted everyone, but they did not return my calls. Manoj Tiwari had felicitated me and even came to my residence. I called him multiple times. Even after a day of the demolition, he has not returned my calls,” Hasan told Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera reached out to Tiwari who said the demolition was being probed. “I told officials about this. But they demolished suddenly. It’s an investigation,” he said, adding that he would arrange for a better house for him, “legally”.
“I talked to the LG [lieutenant governor] Delhi and the house was arranged yesterday [Thursday], but he denied it due to distance. Now, we are arranging nearby,” Tiwari said, adding that there was “no communal angle” to the demolition. The lieutenant governor is a federally appointed nominal head of the Delhi state, equivalent to the governors in other Indian states.
When asked about the growing number of demolitions of Muslim homes, Tiwari said: “It may be a conspiracy against [the] BJP during the election time.” India is set to hold its general election in April and May.

‘They should’ve buried us with the house’
At 9:40am on Wednesday, Hasan’s fellow rat-miner Munna Qureshi was working at a site 35km (22 miles) away when he got a call from his friend. Hasan told him about the ongoing demolition. Qureshi, who had dug out survivors from the Uttarakhand tunnel alongside Hasan, rushed to Khajuri Khas.
There, he says, Hasan and he were detained by police and their phones were confiscated while the demolition was going on.
“At the police station, I was punched in the face and verbally abused,” said Qureshi, who lives in a 2.4-3-metre (8-by-10-foot) rental unit about 400 metres (1,312 feet) from Hasan’s demolished home.
“What will I do with all these trophies and medals? Is this how they treat people who make the country proud?” he said as he held up a box full of medals and prizes he had received for the tunnel rescue.

Hasan’s trophies lie under the rubble of his house.
His wife Shabana was with her in-laws in Modinagar, a small town about 40km (25 miles) from their home, when the demolition occurred. She says they had bought the house in 2013 for 3.3 million rupees ($39,800).
“We had saved our entire lives to buy and build this house and they demolished it in minutes. We borrowed money, sold our village land, and sold our wedding jewellery to buy this property,” she said, adding that they still owed 1.2 million rupees ($14,475) to relatives they had borrowed the money from.
“They knew who my husband was, but they still demolished our house. Just because we are Muslims?” asked Shabana.
Hasan says he is prepared for a lengthy court battle. “I am not very hopeful but we won’t move an inch until we are given our house back,” he said as the family sat and ate on a damaged bed on the side of the road. Over their heads hung a red tarpaulin provided by neighbours.
“They should have buried us with the house,” Hasan’s daughter, Aliza, sobbed.
“Is this a life where we have to sit on a wooden cot by the side of the road?”
Source: Al Jazeera

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https://www.nau.ch/news/ausland/dutzende-kinder-ertrinken-wahrend-religiosen-fests-in-indien-66836036

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Indien am 27.9.2024: Es ruft das Mittelalter:
Mutmaßlicher Ritualmord: Siebenjähriger in Indien getötet

https://orf.at/stories/3371109/



Kinder aus Indien in die Schweiz adoptieren am 27.9.2024: Dokumente fehlten - Vermittlungsstelle hatte gar keine Bewilligung - die kriminelle Mutter Teresa vermittelt Babys von alleinerziehenden indischen Müttern:
Zahlreiche Fälle: Schweiz: Adoptionen indischer Kinder oft ohne Zustimmung der Eltern
https://www.20min.ch/story/zahlreiche-faelle-schweiz-adoptionen-indischer-kinder-oft-ohne-zustimmung-der-eltern-103192497

Letizia Vecchio - Eine aktuelle Forschungsarbeit um die St. Galler Ethnologin Rita Kesselring legt erhebliche Missstände bei der Vermittlung indischer Heimkinder in die Schweiz offen.

    Eine neue Studie deckt erhebliche Missstände bei den Adoptionen indischer Kinder in der Schweiz auf.
    Behörden schauten offenbar gezielt weg und ignorierten, dass für die Adoption notwendige Dokumente nicht vorgelegt wurden.
    Viele Kinder wurden ohne die Zustimmung der leiblichen Eltern vermittelt.

Eine Adoption sieht hohe rechtliche Hürden vor – so müssen die leiblichen Eltern des Kindes beispielsweise eine Verzichtserklärung unterschreiben. Umso erschreckender ist es daher, dass Schweizer Behörden bei der Vermittlung indischer Kinder in den Jahren zwischen 1973 und 2002 nicht so genau hinschauten. Das ergab eine am Freitag veröffentliche Forschungsarbeit um die Ethnologin Rita Kesselring der Universität St. Gallen.

Die Studie «Mutter unbekannt – Adoptionen aus Indien in den Kantonen Zürich und Thurgau, 1973 - 2002» wurde im Auftrag der Kantone Zürich und Thurgau angefertigt. Sie zeigt exemplarisch auf, dass die damals verantwortlichen Stellen in der Mehrzahl der untersuchten Fälle die in der Schweiz geltenden Vorschriften nicht durchgesetzt haben. «Sie akzeptierten, dass ihnen zentrale Dokumente fehlten. Zudem liess der Kanton Zürich eine Vermittlungsstelle gewähren, die nicht über die nötige Bewilligung verfügte», heisst es in der Medienmitteilung des Kantons Zürich.

Heime verdienten Geld mit Adoptionen
Aber warum wurde bei der Adoptionspraxis in diesem Mass «geschludert»? Laut den Forscherinnen zahlte man in der Schweiz damals Geld dafür, dass in Indien Kinder zur Adoption freigegeben wurden. Diese flossen an Mutter-Teresa-Heime, die die Adoptionen vermittelten und denen das Geld als «lukrative Einnahmequelle» diente. Mutter Teresa, die in der katholischen Kirche als Heilige verehrt wird, bat 1987 per Brief das Bundesamt für Ausländerfragen, den Visaprozess für indische Adoptivkinder zu beschleunigen, wie die «Aargauer Zeitung» schreibt.
Bei vielen der untersuchten Fälle handelte es sich nicht um Waisen- oder Findelkinder. Vielmehr wurden die Kinder unverheirateten Frauen weggenommen, die sonst mit gesellschaftlicher Ausgrenzung hätten rechnen müssen und quasi gezwungen wurden, ihr Baby abzugeben.

Richtlinien verschärft
Insgesamt wurden 2278 Heimkinder aus Indien in die Schweiz vermittelt. Bei wie vielen von ihnen die Vorschriften bewusst umgangen wurden, geht aus der Medienmitteilung nicht hervor. Allerdings ist davon die Rede, dass «die Mängel den gesamten Prozess» betrafen: Von der Aufnahme der indischen Kinder, während ihrer Pflege und bis zum Adoptionsentscheid.
Seit 2003 wurden die Richtlinien für Adoptionen mit dem Inkrafttreten des Haager Übereinkommens nachhaltig verschärft. In Indien wurden zudem zahlreiche Mutter-Teresa-Heime geschlossen.

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Politische Gewalt in Indien am 13.10.2024: Muslimischer Politiker im indischen Maharashtra Wochen vor den Wahlen erschossen
Muslim politician in India’s Maharashtra shot dead weeks before state polls

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/13/muslim-politician-in-indias-maharashtra-shot-dead-weeks-before-state-polls

Zwei Verdächtige befinden sich in Untersuchungshaft, nachdem Baba Siddique vor dem Büro seines Sohnes in Mumbai mehrfach angeschossen wurde.

Two suspects are in custody after Baba Siddique was shot multiple times outside his legislator son’s office in Mumbai.

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Indien mit China am 22.10.2024: Grenzkrieg ist beendet:
Wie Indien und China sich aus einem Grenzkrieg zurückzogen – und warum gerade jetzt
How India and China pulled back from a border war — and why now

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/22/how-india-and-china-pulled-back-from-a-border-war-and-why

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Indien hat Probleme am 24.10.2024: "Wo werde ich hingehen?": Hindu-Mann tot, Muslime im indischen Bahraich werden angegriffen
‘Where will I go?’: Hindu man dead, Muslims in India’s Bahraich face attack

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/24/muslims-arrested-houses-torched-in-indias-bahraich-after-hindu-man-killed

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Indien mit Frauenmorden ohne Ende am 26.10.2024:
"Hat das Leben eines Dalits keinen Wert?": Der Mord an einem Mädchen im Teenageralter in Indien
‘Does a Dalit’s life have no value?’: The murder of a teenage girl in India

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/10/26/does-a-dalits-life-have-no-value-the-murder-of-a-teenage-girl-in-india

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Indien mit Hyperschallrakete am 17.11.2024: Milliarden in Raketen verbuttern - und die Armen bleiben arm:
Ein Wendepunkt für Großmachtrivalität in Asien: Indien testet erfolgreich Hyperschallrakete

https://de.rt.com/asien/226264-wendepunkt-fuer-grossmachtrivalitaet-in-asien/

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Indien am 21.11.2024: Ein Milliardär hat Probleme:
Indischer Milliardär Gautam Adani in den USA wegen angeblicher Bestechung und Betrug angeklagt
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani charged in US for alleged bribery, fraud

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/11/20/indian-conglomerate-chair-gautam-adani-indicted-in-the-us

Kenia gegen den indischen Miliardär Adani am 21.11.2024:
Kenia storniert nach US-Anklage Geschäfte mit Adani im Wert von mehr als 2,5 Milliarden US-Dollar
Kenya cancels more than $2.5bn in deals with Adani after US indictment

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/11/21/kenya-cancels-more-than-2-5bn-in-deals-with-adani-after-us-indictment

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Krimineller Bill Gates mit kriminellen Menschenversuchen an Millionen am 4.12.2024:
Bill Gates erklärt Indien zu seinem „Labor“

https://tkp.at/2024/12/04/bill-gates-erklaert-indien-zu-seinem-labor/

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Indien am 12.12.2024: Der neue Schachweltmeister heisst Gukesh Dommaraju, ist 18 Jahre alt und kommt aus Indien:
Indischer Teenager wird jüngster unangefochtener Schachweltmeister
Indian teenager becomes youngest undisputed world chess champion

https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/12/12/indias-gukesh-beats-chinas-ding-to-become-youngest-chess-world-champion

Indian teen prodigy Gukesh Dommaraju prevailed in a thrilling endgame that had been expected to end in a draw.
Teenager Gukesh Dommaraju of India became the youngest undisputed chess world champion by beating defending champion Ding Liren of China in a dramatic turn of events in the last game of a 14-game match in Singapore.
Gukesh, 18, is four years younger than Garry Kasparov, who had been the youngest world champion since 1985 when he beat Anatoly Karpov.

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Delhi hat Probleme am 13.12.2024: Die Regierung zerstört muslimische Häuser - wie im Gazastreifen:
Nach dem Bulldozer: Indische Muslime kämpfen mit Verlusten inmitten zerstörter Häuser
After the bulldozer: Indian Muslims grapple with loss amid demolished homes

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/12/13/after-the-bulldozer-indian-muslims-grapple-with-loss-amid-demolished-homes

Fototexte:
"Meine Frau und ich zittern immer noch vor Schmerz, wenn wir an Ziyan denken. Wir wurden nie benachrichtigt, die Behörden haben uns sowohl unser Haus als auch unseren Sohn gestohlen."
Der muslimische Aktivist Javed Mohammed zeigt ein Foto seines Hauses vor dem Abriss in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh im Norden Indiens [Meer Faisal/Al Jazeera]
Salma Bano kämpft mit den Tränen. Banos Haus in Akbar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, wurde im Juni 2024 im Rahmen eines Entwicklungsprojekts am Flussufer abgerissen, wodurch der Schulunterricht ihrer Kinder unterbrochen wurde [Meer Faisal/Al Jazeera]
Salma Banos Kinder in ihrem umgezogenen Heim in Akbar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh – weit weg von der Schule, in der sie früher waren.
Shahid Maliks zerstörtes Haus im Südwesten Delhis. Tage nach dem Abriss verlor Malik auch seinen kleinen Sohn, der an kardiovaskulären Komplikationen starb, die sich nach Angaben der Ärzte durch den Staub verschlimmerten, den er einst obdachlos eingeatmet hatte [Meer Faisal/Al Jazeera]

ENGL orig.:

After the bulldozer: Indian Muslims grapple with loss amid demolished homes

Photo texts:
“My wife and I still shiver with pain whenever we think of Ziyan. We were never given a notice, the authorities stole both our home and our son from us.”
Muslim activist Javed Mohammed showing a photo of his house before it was demolished in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh in northern India [Meer Faisal/Al Jazeera]
Salma Bano struggles to hold back her tears. Bano’s house in Akbar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, was demolished in June 2024 as part of a riverfront development project, disrupting her children’s schooling [Meer Faisal/Al Jazeera]
Salma Bano’s children in the relocated home they’ve been moved to – far from the school they used to go to, in Akbar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh [Meer Faisal/Al Jazeera]
Shahid Malik’s demolished home in southwest Delhi. Days after the demolition, Malik also lost his infant son, who died from cardiovascular complications made worse, doctors said, by the dust he inhaled once homeless [Meer Faisal/Al Jazeera]

The article:

By Shivangi Mariam Raj - New Delhi, India – From death to the loss of relationships, India’s wave of bulldozer demolitions leaves a long-lingering trail of despair.
Shahid Malik is fighting for a home that no longer exists.
For the past two years, Malik, an accountant by profession, has been working with a local lawyer to seek justice for the demolition of his house and more than two dozen others in Kharak Riwara Satbari, a neighbourhood in southwest Delhi.
In October 2022, the Delhi Development Authority, a body responsible for urban planning, construction of housing and commercial projects, and land management in the Indian capital, tore down the houses without any prior survey or notice after losing litigation for control over the land to a private builder.
The cases Malik has filed – one on behalf of the Resident Welfare Association and another for his own home – still await a hearing. “The hearing is being continuously deferred to another date and we haven’t even had a chance to present our grievances. How long must we wait?” he asks.
But Malik has lost a lot more than just his home. Malik’s son Ziyan was born with cardiovascular complications two months before the house was demolished. His condition “got worse after we were pushed out in the cold”, Malik recounts, pointing towards the rubble of his demolished home.
As the infant cried continuously for hours, Malik rushed him to the doctor the same evening as his home was demolished. For the next six days, Ziyan was transferred from hospital to hospital and eventually put on a ventilator in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.
On a cold October morning, the parents noticed Ziyan’s body turning blue as he struggled to breathe. Then, he was no more. For the family, his death was a direct consequence of their home being demolished.
“The doctors told us that exposure to dust made it even harder for him to breathe,” Malik says.

‘Bulldozer justice’
Like Malik, hundreds of Indian Muslims have seen their homes demolished in recent years without any notice, and in many cases without any legal documents to justify the razing of homes in which generations of families grew up, lived and dreamed of a future.
Often, city authorities cite urban development, beautification drives, or clearing “illegal encroachments”. However, in many cases, the demolitions are publicly pitched by governments as punitive measures against activists and their critics, in states ruled by the Hindu majoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath has earned the epithet of Bulldozer Baba (Daddy Bulldozer), while the former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan gained popularity as Bulldozer Mama (Uncle Bulldozer). Their victims have often been disproportionately Muslim.
“The claims of ‘unauthorised constructions’ are inconsistent and specifically single out one community over and over again,” says Najmus Saqib, a lawyer working with the Association for Protection of Civil Rights, a civil rights advocacy group. “In such a scenario, it is hard for us to convince the community to trust the judicial institutions. There is a feeling of hopelessness everywhere.”
In June 2022, authorities in the Uttar Pradesh city of Prayagraj – formerly known as Allahabad – demolished the home of activist and community leader Javed Mohammed. He was charged under the National Security Act and was labelled the “mastermind” of violence that erupted in Prayagraj that month, following derogatory remarks by the then-BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma against Prophet Muhammad.
The irony? “The Prayagraj Development Authority, the organisation that oversaw this demolition, has itself failed to produce a sanctioned map of the building that houses its office,” Saqib tells Al Jazeera. The Prayagraj development body did not respond to questions from Al Jazeera on the allegations of highhandedness against it.
But the effects of these demolitions linger long after. Families are forced to start life anew in makeshift tents, new neighbourhoods or a distant city altogether. Already limited access to healthcare, nutrition, safety and sanitation as well as irregular access to water and electricity in these new spaces compounds their struggle.

‘Can we get our old life back?’
Salma Bano’s home was among the 1600 houses bulldozed in Akbar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, in June 2024. More than 1,000 Muslim families were evicted for the Kukrail riverfront development project in Lucknow. Saplings were planted over their demolished homes to build a forest.
“Our entire neighbourhood was surrounded by bulldozers and within hours, everything was dust. We did not have anything to eat for the next two-three days,” Bano says. “Now that we are in this new house, we still have to think every day about how much we eat because we do not have enough earnings. I have five children. How will I feed them when my home and my world is all shattered?”
The displaced families have been relocated to Vasant Kunj, a neighbourhood about 15km (9 miles) from their old locality. Lucknow urban development authorities did not respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment on the criticism of the demolitions.
“I am constantly worried about my children not being able to get proper education. Their school was much closer to our old home. Now we cannot afford their school fee or the charges for a school bus,” Bano says.
The family has to pay the government back in instalments for the house they have been allocated. “Everyday essentials are much more expensive here than they were in Akbar Nagar. Inflation is eating us alive,” Bano says. “I feel that our future is completely ruined.”
Mohammad Ishaq, her husband, adds that the family itself has been broken by the demolition.  Earlier, his parents and brothers lived with him.
“But there is no space for them in this tiny new flat. I also lost my job and had to take a loan to get an auto rickshaw so I can earn a living. I do not know for how long I can continue this way,” he says. “Can we get our old life back?”

Relief and trauma
In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court of India declared that government authorities cannot demolish any property belonging to people accused of a crime without following due legal process. The judgement also underlined that the owner of the property must be given advance notice to challenge or respond to the order.
That judgement is “a great relief”, says Kumar Sambhav, founder of Land Conflict Watch, a data-research project that analyses ongoing land conflicts in India.
But the court verdict only addresses punitive demolitions. “Houses that are built on public land are exempted from this order and this ambiguous gap may allow the targeting of the minority community to continue,” Sambhav cautioned. “In the absence of the right to housing, the landless and the homeless of the country reside in the commons. Their homes will always be considered an encroachment.”
These demolitions have a psychological effect, as well, say mental health specialists.
“There is an irreparable sense of displacement,” Zulekha Shakoor Rajani, a Bangalore-based psychologist, tells Al Jazeera. “Personal trauma is being compounded by collective trauma and this is adversely impacting the mental health of many Muslims across the country.
“People feel abandoned with a lack of support and their sense of reality is gradually being distorted as they are no longer safe in their own homes.”
That lack of support can breed a sense of isolation.
Javed Mohammed, the community leader, was in jail when his home in Prayagraj was demolished on June 12, 2022. He wanted to make sure that his wife and daughters, Afreen Fatima and Sumaiya Fatima, were safe.
“But many people who were close to us were reluctant to help. They were afraid,” Mohammed says. “I think they feared that their homes might get bulldozed arbitrarily if they helped us. I can understand it because even what happened to us was unlawful and arbitrary. We felt very alone at the time.”
After months of struggle, the family was able to find rented accommodation in Prayagraj, but the landlord was often harassed by the local police for offering them shelter. And Mohammed’s fraught social relationships are yet to recover, more than two years later.
“I used to be quite well-known in my city and had several forms of interactions with many individuals and organisations, but after this episode, they are all afraid,” he says. “Many people I used to see almost daily no longer meet me or speak to me over a phone call. My social life is no longer the same as before. I feel that sense of being alone even now.”

A lasting calamity
The repeated incidents of bulldozer demolitions act as psychological warfare against India’s Muslims, say analysts.
“For any healing to begin, the violence must stop. We are now noticing a rise in complex post-traumatic stress disorder cases where recurring flashbacks, ruminating thoughts, and nightmares make it even harder for the people to come out of their loss,” Rajani explains.
In Nuh, a city in the northern Indian state of Haryana, authorities bulldozed more than 1,000 Muslim homes, shanties, and small businesses in August 2023, accusing the community of participating in violence against a provocative and armed Hindu supremacist procession that marched through Muslim neighbourhoods.
Saddam Ali (name changed to protect identity) lost his home and medical store. “We had no idea that this was going to happen. While I am trying to build my house again, I am unable to see my son sinking into depression. He is now dependent on antidepressants,” Ali tells Al Jazeera.
“The pain of losing everything that he had built with so much hard work within minutes in front of his eyes was too much for him to bear.”
Source: Al Jazeera

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Welche Religion hatte dieser Fast-Mörder aus Indien?
Fast-Frauenmord an Italienerin in Oslo (Norwegen) am 22.12.2024: Der Täter hatte "indische Wurzeln":
Femizid konnte verhindert werden: 21-jährige Italienerin nach Messerangriff im Koma
https://www.suedtirolnews.it/chronik/21-jaehrige-italienerin-nach-messerangriff-im-koma

Von: fra
Oslo – Martina Voce, eine 21-jährige Italienerin aus Florenz, liegt nach einem Messerangriff ihres Ex-Partners in Oslo auf der Intensivstation. Der 24-jährige Angreifer, ein Norweger mit indischen Wurzeln, stach etwa 30 Mal auf sie ein, wobei er auch die Halsschlagader traf. Die junge Frau musste notoperiert werden.
Glücklicherweise verhinderten Kollegen der 21-Jährigen einen Femizid. Zwei Männer und eine Frau, die mit Voce in einem Geschäft arbeiteten, eilten ihr zur Hilfe, als der Angriff stattfand. Dabei wurde der Angreifer ebenfalls verletzt und befindet sich mittlerweile im künstlichen Koma. Er konnte bislang nicht befragt werden.
Martina Voce hatte die Beziehung zu dem Mann vor etwa zwei Monaten beendet. Laut ihrem Vater schwebt sie noch in Lebensgefahr, doch die Ärzte geben sich zuversichtlich.
Der Geschäftsführer der Ladenkette, bei der Voce arbeitete, dankte den mutigen Angestellten für ihr Eingreifen, das vermutlich ihr Leben rettete.

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Indien gegen den kriminellen, ungarischen Juden Soros am 26.12.2024:
Wie George Soros zum "Feind Nummer 1" für Indiens Modi wurde
How George Soros became ‘Enemy Number 1’ for India’s Modi

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/26/how-george-soros-became-enemy-number-1-for-indias-modi

By Yashraj Sharma - The ruling BJP has accused the billionaire of financing opposition-championed initiatives critical of Modi that it claims are aimed at destabilising India.

New Delhi, India — As India’s Parliament convened for its winter session in late November, the world’s largest democracy braced for heated exchanges between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition, led by the Congress party.

The northeastern state of Manipur is still burning, after more than a year of ethnic clashes that critics have accused the local BJP government of exacerbating; the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth has slowed down; and one of India’s richest men, Gautam Adani, is at the centre of a corruption indictment in the United States.

But on a cold and grey day in mid-December, BJP leaders marched through Parliament premises holding placards aimed at pushing back against opposition criticism by linking the Congress to an unlikely villain in their eyes: George Soros.

Since early 2023, the Hungarian-American financier-philanthropist has emerged as a central target of the BJP’s rhetoric, which accuses Soros of sponsoring the country’s opposition and backing other Modi critics with the intent of destabilising India. Those accusations sharpened ahead of the 2024 parliamentary elections in which the Hindu majoritarian BJP lost its majority for the first time in a decade, though it still secured enough seats to cobble together a coalition government.

But the campaign has reached fever pitch in recent days, with the BJP even accusing the US Department of State of colluding with Soros to undermine Modi.

In a series of posts on December 5, the BJP posted on X that the Congress leaders, including Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, used the work of a group of investigative journalists — funded in part by Soros’s foundation and the State Department — to target the Modi government on questions related to the economy, security, and democracy.

The BJP cited an article by French media outlet Mediapart claiming that Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the State Department funded the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Then, it drew attention to the OCCRP’s exposes on the alleged use of Pegasus spyware by the Modi government, investigations into the Adani group’s activity, and reports on declining religious freedom in India to suggest that Soros and the Biden administration were in effect behind this coverage.

“The deep state had a clear objective to destabilise India by targeting Prime Minister Modi,” a BJP spokesperson said at a news conference, adding that “it has always been the US State Department behind this agenda [and] OCCRP has served as a media tool for carrying out a deep state agenda”.

The comments targeting the State Department took many analysts by surprise as the US is one of India’s closest strategic allies. But some experts have suggested that the move is about domestic political posturing, aimed also at aligning the Modi government with the incoming Trump administration’s insistence on how the “deep state” conspires to undermine democracy.

“The instrumentalisation of Western criticism into a domestic political platform represents a rather new phenomenon in Modi’s India,” said Asim Ali, a political researcher. It represents an effort, he said, to build the narrative of a “face-off between a ‘Western-backed coalition’ and a ‘popularly backed nationalist coalition’.”
An ‘easy target’

In January 2023, US-based forensic financial research firm Hindenburg alleged in a report that the Adani Group had been engaged in a “brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of decades”.

After the report’s release, Adani Group’s shares plunged in value by about $112bn, before recovering over subsequent days. The firm has since followed up with more research and analysis on the conglomerate’s business practices.

The Adani conglomerate has denied the allegations. Hindenburg, in turn, received a show-cause notice from the Indian capital market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), accusing the group of using non-public information to build short positions against the Adani Group.

But the fraud and corruption allegations became the centrepiece of the Congress-led campaign against Modi and Adani in the then-upcoming Indian parliamentary elections.

Congress leader Gandhi alleged in Parliament in February 2023 that “the government policies are tailor-made to favour the Adani Group”. He displayed two photographs of the prime minister and the billionaire sharing a private jet and of Modi taking off in an Adani Group jet for campaigning ahead of the 2014 national election.

In February 2023, Soros waded into that Indian political war over Adani. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, he said the Adani crisis “will significantly weaken” Modi’s “stranglehold” on the Indian government.

This was met with furious condemnation from Modi’s party. Then-federal minister Smriti Irani said the founder of the Open Society Foundation has “now declared his ill intentions to intervene in [India’s] democratic processes”. India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar described the billionaire as “an old, rich opinionated … dangerous person”.

Al Jazeera has sought responses from Open Society Foundations on the allegations against it levelled by the BJP and ministers in the Modi government but has not yet received a reply. However, in September 2023, it issued a statement about its activities in India, where it said, “Since mid-2016, our grant making in India has been constrained by government restrictions on our funding for local NGOs.”

But the recent criticism of Soros is not so much about the billionaire, said Neelanjan Sircar, a political scientist at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in New Delhi.

“Soros is an easy target: he represents a lot of money, he represents a position that is critical of Modi, and, of course, funds a lot of things,” said Sircar. “But it is not about him as this abstract entity for everybody to hate – rather, it is his alleged connection to a set of social and political actors that the BJP is trying to vilify within India.”

Since the recent US indictment of Adani, over allegations of bribery in India that the group has denied, Modi’s party has sharpened its attacks on the Congress and Soros, attempting to portray deep links between the two. The BJP cited alleged funding by Soros of the Forum of Democratic Leaders in Asia Pacific (FDL-AP), which has Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi’s mother, as co-president, to bolster its claim. “Soros is not a citizen of this country and he wants to create instability in the country,” said Jagdambika Pal, a member of parliament from the BJP.

The Congress, however, has rejected suggestions that it is influenced by any foreign actor and has insisted that the BJP’s anti-Soros campaign is aimed at distracting the country from the Manipur crisis, India’s economic challenges and the US indictment of Adani in an alleged bribery scheme.

BJP leader and spokesperson Vijay Chauthaiwala denied a request from Al Jazeera for comment on criticism of the party’s attacks on Soros.

Meanwhile, the French media outlet Mediapart in a public statement, said it “firmly condemns the instrumentalisation of its recently published investigative article about OCCRP … in order to serve BJP’s political agenda and attack press freedom.”
The anti-Soros narrative

India is not the only country where right-wing movements have targeted Soros, placing the 94-year-old at the heart of global conspiracies.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused Soros of trying to push immigrants into Europe and has tried to stop the billionaire’s support for groups in the country through a legislative bill. In the US, supporters of President-elect Donald Trump frequently accused Soros — without evidence — of financing Black Lives Matter protests and caravans of migrants headed to the US during the first Trump administration.

Often, these conspiracies also carry anti-Semitic undertones, critics say.

But the campaign in India is different, according to research by Joyojeet Pal, an associate professor at the University of Michigan. An analysis of posts on X around Soros found that Indian influencers pushing conspiracy theories about him are generally “careful not to use anti-Semitic tropes” and rather focus on his “soft spot for Muslims”, Pal told Al Jazeera. By extension, that translates into an alleged “hatred of Hindus”, according to this narrative, Pal said.

Pal’s research found that a few social media accounts belonging explicitly to the BJP politicians “were important in putting out the key content” against Soros when the party pushed back against his comments on Adani and Modi. “However, the main amplifiers of content were [pro-Modi] influencers … by aggressively retweeting content to make it viral.”

Presenting Soros as a shadowy puppeteer “is very attractive” for some political movements, said Pal, because it “suggests a broader conspiracy”, showing their opponents “as weak enough that they need to take orders from a foreign manipulator”.

In India, the attacks against Soros have moved from social platforms like X and Instagram to WhatsApp chats and increasingly shows on mainstream television where he is targeted by BJP spokespeople and party supporters.

As a result, “people all the way down to villages know there is this entity called Soros who is targeting India, but none of them know exactly who this person is”, said Pal. “An unknown enemy is much scarier than one you can see and evaluate.”
‘Tone deaf’ or ‘posturing’?

To many observers of India’s foreign relations, the big surprise in recent days has come from the BJP’s decision to paint the US State Department as a party to the supposed Soros-led conspiracy against the Modi government.

In a media briefing on December 5, Sambit Patra, a BJP spokesperson and parliamentarian, insisted that “50 percent of OCCRP’s funding comes directly from the US State Department … [and] has served as a media tool for carrying out a deep state agenda”.
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On December 7, the State Department said the BJP’s accusations were “disappointing”, adding that the US “has long been a champion of media freedom around the world”.

Experts too questioned the BJP’s accusations.

“The Indian attack seems tone-deaf and out of step with reality in the sense that the US State Department has seemingly gone out of its way to convey its desire to strengthen and deepen ties with India,” said Michael Kugelman, South Asia Institute director at The Wilson Centre, a Washington, DC-based think tank. “It is very opposite of wanting to malign and destabilise the country.”

The US government has been “really bending over backward to show just how committed they are to partnership with India” on multiple fronts, from security, technology, and trade, to education, he said.

But Kugelman noted that “the BJP’s posturing could be for the incoming Trump administration, which has essentially made the same type of arguments against the so-called US deep state”.

Sircar and Ali, meanwhile, both said the BJP’s focus on Soros as a villain was — in their view — fundamentally rooted in domestic politics. Modi, Ali said, wants to use “anti-Western nationalism as an attractive nationalist plank in parts of India resilient to the lure of Hindu nationalism”.

And in Soros, India’s governing party has found the face to put on its dartboard.
Source: Al Jazeera

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E-ID in Indien am 27.12.2024: wird als "Fortschritt" verkauft - z.B. zum Einreichen von Lebensbescheinigungen:
Indien: Digitale Identität und Biometrie auf dem Vormarsch
https://transition-news.org/indien-digitale-identitat-und-biometrie-auf-dem-vormarsch

Quelle: Biometric Update: India transforming public finance with digital identity and biometrics

Mit diversen Initiativen will die Regierung die Überprüfung von Renten und die Verteilung von Sozialleistungen rationalisieren. So können Rentner ihre Lebensbescheinigungen mithilfe von Gesichtserkennungstechnologie auf Smartphones einreichen. Die Superkontrolle wird den Bürgern als Fortschritt bei der «finanziellen Eingliederung» und «Verbesserung der Regierungsführung» verkauft.

Indien hat umfangreiche digitale Initiativen eingeführt, um die Überprüfung von Renten und die Verteilung von Sozialleistungen zu rationalisieren. Angeblich sollen das digitale Lebenszertifikatssystem und das Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)-Programm «messbare Ergebnisse in Bezug auf Effizienz und Betrugsbekämpfung» bringen.

Die Programme bauen auf Indiens Vorstoß zur digitalen Identitätsüberprüfung auf, der mit der Gründung der Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) und ihrem biometrisch basierten nationalen ID-System begonnen habe, informiert das Portal Biometric Update.

Das digitale System ermögliche es Rentnern, ihre Lebensbescheinigungen mithilfe von Gesichtserkennungstechnologie auf Android-Smartphones einzureichen. Im November 2024 habe das Ministerium für Renten und Rentnerwohlfahrt die Kampagne 3.0 eingeführt und die Reichweite der Initiative auf 800 Städte und Gemeinden in allen Bezirken ausgeweitet.

Die Einführung der Gesichtserkennung für die Überprüfung von Renten sei in anderen Ländern schon erfolgreich umgesetzt worden. Die indische Initiative sei ein Beispiel für den wachsenden globalen Trend, biometrische Technologie für die Verwaltung der sozialen Sicherheit einzusetzen, begeistert sich Biometric Update.

Der Bevölkerung wird die digitale Superkontrolle als Fortschritt bei der «finanziellen Eingliederung» und «Verbesserung der Regierungsführung» verkauft. Begünstigte zahlreicher Programme – wie Subventionen, Renten und Stipendien – erhalten Zahlungen direkt auf ihre mit der «Aadhaar» genannten persönlichen Identifikationsnummer verknüpften Bankkonten.

Dadurch verringere man Verzögerungen und es werde sichergestellt, dass die Gelder ohne Zwischenhändler bei den vorgesehenen Empfängern ankämen, erklärte der indische Finanzminister Nirmala Sitharaman. Ihm zufolge ist dieses Projekt «eine hervorragende Lektion in effizienter Regierungsführung». Denn es sei wichtig, jede Rupie ordnungsgemäß zu verbuchen.

Mit der Integration biometrischer Technologien und digitaler Identitäten setze die digitale öffentliche Infrastruktur Indiens einen weltweiten Standard für Transparenz und effektive Mittelverwaltung und stärke das Vertrauen in staatliche Dienstleistungen, so Sitharaman.

Indien zeige, wie eine starke digitale öffentliche Infrastruktur durch den Einsatz von Biometrie und Aadhaar das Leben verändere, die Rechenschaftspflicht fördere und einen fairen Zugang zu Sozialleistungen ermöglichen könne.

Kritische Aspekte zum Datenschutz werden in dem Artikel von Biometric Update vollständig ignoriert.

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SCHLUSS mit Sonne und Wind am 1.1.2024: USA und Indien setzen verstärkt auf Kohle als Energiequelle

Dr. Peter F. Mayer|Wirtschaft0Der Flop der Energiewende dank Dunkelflaute im Winter zeigt die Bedeutung von nachhaltig bei hohem Bedarf verfügbaren Energieträgern. Deshalb spielt Kohle nach wie vor eine bedeutende Rolle, wie etwa Indien zeigt.

https://tkp.at/2025/01/01/usa-und-indien-setzen-verstaerkt-auf-kohle-als-energiequelle/

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Bhopal am 2.1.2025: 40 Jahre hat dort Giftmüll die Gegend verseucht:
Indien räumt Giftmüll von Gasleck in Bhopal, 40 Jahre nach der Katastrophe
India clears toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak site, 40 years after disaster

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/2/india-clears-toxic-waste-from-bhopal-gas-leak-site-40-years-after-disaster

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Indien mit Taliban am 11.1.2025: gar nicht gut:
Warum hofiert Indien jetzt die Taliban?
Why is India courting the Taliban now?

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/1/11/why-is-india-courting-the-taliban-now

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15.1.2025: Indiens verschwundene Kamele: Wie ein Gesetz zu ihrer Rettung sie auslöscht
India’s disappearing camels: How a law to save them is wiping them out

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/15/indias-disappearing-camels-how-a-law-to-save-them-is-wiping-them-out

As global camel population rises, it’s on a drastic decline in India. Breeders and experts say a law passed by the BJP in Rajasthan state is the primary reason.

By Amir Malik
Published On 15 Jan 202515 Jan 2025

Rajasthan, India – Jeetu Singh’s camel stands calm, munching the leaves of a Khejri tree in the Jaisalmer district of India’s desert state of Rajasthan.

Her calf occasionally suckles on her mother’s breasts. While the newborn is the latest addition to Singh’s herd, sadness is palpable on his face. His otherwise sparkling eyes have turned gloomy, gawping at the grazing camels.
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When Jeetu, 65, was a teenager, his family had more than 200 camels. Today, that number has gone down to 25.

“Rearing camels was no less than a competitive affair when we were children,” he tells Al Jazeera. “I used to think my camels should be more beautiful than those reared by my peers.”

He would groom them, apply mustard oil to their bodies, trim their brown and blackish hair, and decorate them with colourful beads from head to tail. The camels would then adorn the landscape with the festooned frieze of symmetry they form while walking in herds as the “ships of the desert”.

“All that is memory now,” he says. “I only keep camels now because I am attached to them. Otherwise, there is no financial benefit from them.”
Camels India
Conservationist Hanuwant Singh Sadri kisses a camel in Pali district, Rajasthan [Amir Malik/Al Jazeera]

Across the world, the camel population rose from nearly 13 million in the 1960s to more than 35 million now, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which declared 2024 as the International Year of Camelids to highlight the key role the animal plays in the lives of millions of households in more than 90 countries.
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But their numbers are on a drastic decline in India – from nearly a million camels in 1961 to just approximately 200,000 today. And the fall has been particularly sharp in recent years.

The livestock census conducted by India’s federal government in 2007 revealed that Rajasthan, one of a few Indian states where camels are reared, had about 420,000 camels. In 2012, they reduced to about 325,000, while in 2019, their population dipped further to a little more than 210,000 – a 35 percent downfall in seven years.

That decline in Rajasthan’s camel population is being felt across the vast state – India’s largest by area.

Some 330km (205 miles) from Jeetu’s home lies the Anji Ki Dhani village. In the 1990s, the hamlet was home to more than 7,000 camels. “Only 200 of them are present now; the rest are extinct,” says Hanuwant Singh Sadri, a camel conservationist for more than three decades.

And in the Barmer district’s Dandi village, Bhanwarlal Chaudhary has lost nearly 150 of his camels since the beginning of the 2000s. He is left with just 30 now. As the 45-year-old walks with his herd, a camel leans towards him and kisses him.

“Camels are connected to the language of our survival, our cultural heritage and our everyday life,” Chaudhary said. “Without them, our language, our being has no meaning at all.”
Camels India
Chaudhary with his herd in Dandi village of the Barmer district, Rajasthan [Amir Malik/Al Jazeera]
2015 law the biggest blow

Camel-keepers and experts cite various reasons for the dwindling number of camels in India. Tractors have replaced their need on farms, while cars and trucks have taken over the roads to transport goods.
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Camels have also struggled because of the shrinking grazing lands. Since they cannot be stall-fed like cows or pigs, camels must be left for grazing in open areas – like Jeetu’s camel eating the leaves of the Khejri tree.

“That open set-up is hardly available now,” Sadri says.

But the biggest blow came in 2015, when the Rajasthan government under the Hindu majoritarian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) passed the Rajasthan Camel (Prohibition of Slaughter and Regulation of Temporary Migration or Export) Act.

The law prohibits the transport, illegal possession and slaughtering of camels. “Even decorating them could amount to causing them hurt, as the definition of causing them harm is loosely worded,” Chaudhary tells Al Jazeera.

Punishment under the law ranges from a prison term between six months and five years, and penalties between 3,000 rupees ($35) and 20,000 rupees ($235). Unlike all other laws – where the accused is innocent until proven guilty – this law flips conventional jurisprudence.

“The burden to prove innocence rests with the person prosecuted under this act,” it reads.
Camels India Radheshyam Bishnoi
The dark and light brown camels stand together in water in Pokhran. Called khadeen, the waterbody is a lifeline for both people and animals in the area [Radheshyam Pemani Bishnoi/Al Jazeera]

With the enforcement of the act, the camel market was outlawed – and so were camel breeders if they intended to sell their animals. Buyers suddenly became “smugglers” under the law.

The act was crafted on the assumption that the slaughter of camels was behind the decline in their population in Rajasthan. It banned camel transport to other states, says Chaudhary, thinking it would serve three purposes: the camel population would increase, the livelihood of the breeders would increase and the camel slaughter would stop.
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“Well, it missed its first two targets,” Chaudhary says.
‘Suddenly, there were no buyers’

Sumit Dookia, an ecologist from Rajasthan who teaches at a university in New Delhi, has a question for the government over the law.

“Why is it that the camel population is still shrinking,” he asks, if a law meant to revive their numbers is in force?

Chaudhary has the answer. “We rear animals to sustain our lives,” he says, adding that without a market or a fair price, keeping such huge animals is not an easy task.

“The law locked horns with our traditional system where we used to take our male camels to Pushkar, Nagore or Tilwara – three of the biggest fairs for camels,” adds Sadri.

Sadri says the breeders used to get good money for their camels in those fairs.

“Before the law was passed, our camels were sold from 40,000 ($466) to 80,000 rupees ($932),” he says. “But as soon as the government implemented the law in 2015, the camels began to be sold for a meagre 500 ($6) to 1,000 rupees ($12).”

“Suddenly, there were no buyers.”

So, did buyers lose interest? “No, they did not,” says ecologist Dookia. “The only thing is that they are scared for their lives now.”

This is particularly so because almost all the buyers in Pushkar, the largest camel fair in India, were Muslims, says Sadri. And targeting them is especially easy in a climate of anti-Muslim hostility under the BJP.

“If a Muslim is eating camel meat, we don’t have any problem. If there are good slaughterhouses, the price of camels will only increase, thereby inspiring breeders to keep more and more camels,” he says.
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“But the BJP doesn’t want to do this. It is putting us out of our traditional markets.”
‘Law took away our camels’

Since 2014, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP came to power in India, cases of lynching of Muslims and Dalits by Hindu vigilantes over animal slaughter have risen exponentially. Dalits sit at the lowest rung of India’s complex caste system.

“Looking at the scenario in the country, the buyers are scared and would take no risk in camel transport,” says Chaudhary. “Given such a situation, why will there be a buyer? Who will buy the animals?”
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Sadri and breeders taste camel milk in a traditional way [Amir Malik/Al Jazeera]

When asked whether the law was responsible for the declining number of camels in the country, Maneka Gandhi, a former minister in Modi’s cabinet who had pushed for the law said, “The law has had no effect”, adding that “Muslims are continuing smuggling of the animal”.

Gandhi claimed that the law “has not been implemented at all”. If the law is properly implemented, she said, camel numbers would make a comeback.

But Narendra Mohan Singh, a 61-year-old retired bureaucrat who was involved with the drafting of the law, disagrees.

“Look, the law is problematic, and we got to know about that only after it was passed and started affecting the breeders. We were given very little time to prepare it and farmers and camel breeders who were actually going to be affected were not consulted when it was being brought in,” says Singh, the former additional director of animal husbandry in Rajasthan’s government.
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“We were told to formulate a law for camels similar to what existed for cows and other cattle. But a law that aimed to protect camels ended up doing the opposite,” Singh adds.

Amir Ali, assistant professor at the School of Social Sciences in New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, agrees with Singh.

“The excessive concern that Hindu [majoritarian] politics expresses towards animals has two strange aspects to it,” he says. “First, it is bereft of an understanding of the nuances and complexities of matters such as livestock herding. Second, in the strange zeal to express concern for animals, it ends up demonising and dehumanising groups like Dalits and Muslims.”

Meanwhile, the sun has set in Jaisalmer. Jeetu, sitting on the ground next to a bonfire, thinks of the newborn camel in his herd and asks: “Will the baby camel bring good fortune to Rajasthan?”

Sadri and Singh are not optimistic.

Sadri says the BJP’s “short-sighted law” continues to add to the decline of the camel population in Rajasthan.

“The organisations pushing for animal welfare don’t know anything about big animals. They can only raise dogs and cats,” he says, his voice seething with anger.

“This law took away our markets and will eventually take our camels. I will not be shocked or surprised if there are no camels left in India in the next five or 10 years. It will be gone forever like dinosaurs did.”

Singh has an almost as dire prognosis for the future. “If not extinct, it will eventually become a zoo animal,” he says.
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Source: Al Jazeera

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Kolkata (Indien) am 18.1.2025: Männergruppe soll in Krankenhaus Ärztin (31) vergewaltigt und ermordet haben - 1 Mann (33) wurde verurteilt - er bestreitet vehement:
Urteil im Fall vergewaltigter Ärztin in Indien
https://www.nau.ch/news/ausland/urteil-im-fall-vergewaltigter-arztin-in-indien-66895641

Keystone-SDA - Indien - Schuldig gesprochen wurde ein 33-jähriger Mann in Indien, dem die Vergewaltigung und Ermordung einer jungen Ärztin vorgeworfen wird.
Die Vergewaltigung einer jungen Ärztin, die an ihren Verletzungen gestorben ist, hatte im vergangenen Jahr eine Protestwelle in Indien ausgelöst – nun fiel ein Urteil. Ein Gericht in Kolkata sprach örtlichen Medienberichten zufolge einen 33-jährigen Mann schuldig, der in dem Krankenhaus als freiwilliger Helfer gearbeitet habe.
Das Strafmass soll demnach am Montag verkündet werden. Dem Verurteilten droht die Todesstrafe. Er beteuerte laut dem Sender NDTV vor Gericht seine Unschuld und behauptete, hereingelegt worden zu sein, damit er als Mörder dasteht.

Protestwelle nach Mord
Der Tod der 31-jährigen Ärztin in Ausbildung hatte in dem bevölkerungsreichsten Land der Erde eine Welle von Protesten sowie Streiks von Medizinerinnen und Medizinern ausgelöst.
Die Teilnehmenden forderten neben der Bestrafung des Täters oder der Täter auch sicherere Arbeitsbedingungen, ein Ende der «bestehenden Bedrohungskultur» und besseren Schutz für Frauen. Ärztinnen und Ärzte in Indien erleben immer wieder Gewalt am Arbeitsplatz.
Die Leiche der jungen Frau war in einem Seminarraum der Klinik gefunden worden, wo sie nach einer langen Schicht geschlafen hatte. Die Polizei nahm den freiwilligen Helfer als Verdächtigen fest, der in demselben Krankenhaus tätig gewesen sein soll.

Fall wirft Schlaglicht auf sexuelle Gewalt gegen Frauen in Indien
Aus Kreisen der Ärzteschaft hiess es damals, die Obduktion deute darauf hin, dass die Frau wahrscheinlich gemeinschaftlich von mehreren Personen vergewaltigt worden sei.
Nach der Urteilsverkündung am Samstag dankte der Vater des Opfers dem Richter und erklärte, der Schuldspruch habe sein Vertrauen in das Justizsystem aufrechterhalten.
In Indien wird nach offiziellen Zahlen alle 15 Minuten eine Frau oder ein Mädchen vergewaltigt. Frauenrechtler gehen von einer hohen Dunkelziffer aus. Immer wieder kommt es zu Fällen, die auch international Bestürzung auslösen. Zwar wurden in den vergangenen Jahren entsprechende Gesetze in Indien verschärft, trotzdem haben viele das Gefühl, dass zu wenig getan wird.

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Koklata am 18.1.2025: Es wird behauptet: Urteil in Indien: Ärztin (†31) starb nach Vergewaltigung an ihren Verletzungen
https://www.blick.ch/ausland/urteil-in-indien-fall-hatte-landesweite-protestwelle-ausgeloest-aerztin-31-starb-nach-vergewaltigung-an-ihren-verletzungen-id20506206.html

[...] Die Leiche der jungen Frau war in einem Seminarraum der Klinik gefunden worden, wo sie nach einer langen Schicht geschlafen hatte. Die Polizei nahm den freiwilligen Helfer als Verdächtigen fest, der in demselben Krankenhaus tätig gewesen sein soll. Aus Kreisen der Ärzteschaft hiess es damals, die Obduktion deute darauf hin, dass die Frau wahrscheinlich gemeinschaftlich von mehreren Personen vergewaltigt worden sei. [...]

[...] In Indien wird nach offiziellen Zahlen alle 15 Minuten eine Frau oder ein Mädchen vergewaltigt.  [...]


[Die genaue Todesursache wird VERSCHWIEGEN und es kann alles ERFUNDEN sein].


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Es stinkt nach feministischer in Indien Justiz am 18.1.2025: Ein Polizeilehrling soll eine Ärztin vergewaltigt und ermordet haben:
Freiwilliger Polizist in Indien für schuldig befunden: Vergewaltigung eines Arztes und Mordfall
Police volunteer found guilty in India doctor rape, murder case

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/18/indian-court-finds-police-volunteer-guilty-in-kolkata-rape-case

Female doctor’s bloodied body was found in a classroom at a state-run college and hospital in Kolkata last August.

A police volunteer has been convicted of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a hospital in India that led to nationwide protests last year.

The Civil and Criminal Court in Sealdah found 33-year-old Sanjay Roy guilty of the rape and murder of the female trainee, whose bloodied body was found in a classroom at the state-run R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata last August, with the case exposing the country’s struggle with sexual violence against women.
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Judge Anirban Das, who presided over the fast-tracked trial, said the defendant, who protested his innocence in court and insists he was framed, could face life in prison or the death penalty when he is sentenced on Monday.

“Your guilt is proved. You are being convicted,” the judge announced, saying that charges had been proven by circumstantial evidence.

Roy’s lawyers, who have not yet commented on the verdict, argue that there were glaring discrepancies in the investigation and forensic examination reports in the trial, which started on November 11 and saw 51 witnesses examined.
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The parents of the 31-year-old victim, who cannot be named under Indian law, expressed dissatisfaction with the probe, saying the crime could not have been committed by just one person.
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“Our daughter could not have met such a horrific end by a single man,” her father said. “We will remain in pain and agony until all the culprits are punished. My daughter’s soul will not rest in peace until she gets justice.”
Rape protest
Social activists shout slogans condemning the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in a Kolkata hospital, at a protest on January 16, 2025 [Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP]
Seeking justice

More than 200 armed police personnel were deployed in anticipation of the verdict.

As Roy was brought to court in a police car, protesters chanted: “Hang him, hang him.”

Several doctors chanted slogans in solidarity with the victim.

Dr Aniket Mahato, a spokesperson for the junior doctors, said street protests would continue “until justice is done”.

The gruesome nature of the attack led to weeks of nationwide protests, drawing comparisons with the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in the capital, New Delhi. It led to demands by doctors at government hospitals for additional security.

India’s Supreme Court set up a national task force after the protests that suggested ways to enhance safety measures in government hospitals.

India’s federal police, who investigated the case, also charged the officer heading the local police station at the time of the crime and the then-head of the hospital with destruction of the crime scene and tampering with evidence.
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The police officer is out on bail while the former head of the hospital remains in detention in connection with a separate case of financial irregularities at the hospital.
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

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Kolkata (Indien) am 20.1.2025: Lebenslang für Polizeipraktikant, der angeblich nichts verbrochen hat:
Lebenslange Haft im Fall vergewaltigter Ärztin in Indien
https://www.nau.ch/news/ausland/lebenslange-haft-im-fall-vergewaltigter-arztin-in-indien-66896501

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Trump am 6.2.2025: lässt kriminelle Ausländer in Fesseln fliegen - z.B. nach Indien:
"Entwürdigend": Indische Oppositionsabgeordnete protestieren gegen die Rückkehr von US-Abgeschobenen in Fesseln
‘Degrading’: India opposition MPs protest US deportees’ return in shackles

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/6/degrading-india-opposition-mps-protest-us-deportees-return-in-shackles

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Indien am 8.2.2025: Elefant ermordet Motorradfahrer
Video-Link: https://t.me/Impfschaden_Corona_Schweiz/107230

Ein Elefant in Indien tötete einen deutschen Touristen, indem er ihn mit seinem Stoßzahn aufspießte - Bild
Der 77-jährige Michael S. war mit seinem Motorrad unterwegs und als er einen Elefanten auf der Straße sah, beschloss er, an ihm vorbeizufahren, obwohl andere Verkehrsteilnehmer angehalten hatten.
Der Elefant nahm dies wohl als Bedrohung wahr - er stieß den Mann vom Motorrad und griff an.
Michael versuchte, zum Motorrad zurückzukehren, aber der wütende Elefant griff ihn erneut an: Er spießte den Mann mit seinem Stoßzahn auf und schleuderte ihn in die Luft. Das Opfer wurde ins Krankenhaus gebracht, erlag aber seinen Verletzungen.
Nach Angaben der örtlichen Behörden hatte der Mann gegen die Sicherheitsvorschriften verstoßen, was zu der Tragödie führte.

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Indien am 8.2.2025: Modis Partei BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) stürmt nach 27 Jahren an die Macht in Delhi und versetzt der Opposition einen schweren Schlag
Modi’s BJP romps to Delhi power after 27 years, in big blow to opposition

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/8/bjp-has-system-sewn-up-kejriwals-aap-loses-delhi-in-assembly-elections

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Killers in India am 9.2.2025: Indische Streitkräfte töten 31 mutmaßliche maoistische Rebellen im Bundesstaat Chhattisgarh
Indian forces kill 31 suspected Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh state

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/indian-forces-kill-31-suspected-maoist-rebels-in-chhattisgarh-state

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10.4.2025: Indiens Sprachenkrieg: Warum löst Hindi ein Nord-Süd-Gefälle aus?
India’s language war: Why is Hindi sparking a north-south divide?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/10/indias-language-war-why-is-hindi-causing-a-north-south-divide