In the history of the subcontinent of India, there have been highlights by local and foreign media of grave violations of human rights ever since they received independence from the British colonialists on August 15, 1947 until now.
In India, there are approximately 1.3 billion people, of which 900 million are Hindus with the rest being made up mostly of Muslims and Christians, causing the Hindutva cause to “berkelakuan samseng bila berkumpulan” (act like thugs by being the majority).
India has often been chastised for the Hindu persecution of minority religions like Islam and Christianity, and these bullying tactics and oppression of those who are non-Hindus has caused the United Nations to condemn their human rights record.
Other forms of injustices are also to be witnessed in what is supposedly the world’s most populous democracy such as the North-South Divide of India, where fair-skinned northern Indians think of themselves as being superior to the dark-skinned south Indians.
India is a democracy in name only, as the oppression of southern Indians is proven by the fact that no political candidate from the south of India has ever been elected as prime minister since independence from the British.
India’s democracy is suspect. This is why the nation has not been able to play a more prominent role on the world stage as a global superpower due to their non-acceptance by many other countries around the globe.
-THE MALAYSIA VOICE
