Name: "India: The Modi Question" Documentary & Panel
Start: 2023-03-07T18:00:00-05:00
Location: The National Press Club

"India: The Modi Question" Documentary & Panel

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On Tuesday, March 7th, a truncated version of "India: the Modi Question" will be screened followed by a panel discussion.

After the BBC aired a two-part documentary entitled &quot;India: The Modi Question&quot; on Jan. 17, the Indian government used its emergency powers to ban it from being aired in the country. Modi’s government also forced Twitter and YouTube to block the documentary in India under an unjust 2021 information technology law, which the National Press Club has previously criticized.The BBC documentary examines Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots when he was chief minister of the western Indian state. During the riots, thousands of predominantly Muslim Indians were killed, many were raped, and Muslim establishments were set on fire. The Indian Supreme Court exonerated Modi in 2012 of wrongdoing, but the documentary notes the British Foreign Office produced an unpublished report claiming Modi was “directly responsible” for enabling the impunity of violence that led to the killings.Confirmed speakers include:Imran Dawood, who, as an 18-year-old, witnessed his family members lynched to death in Gujarat in 2002 and survived only because the Hindu extremist attackers presumed him dead. He is featured in the BBC documentaryYusuf Dawood, Imran’s uncle, has led the family’s fight for justice for 20 yearsDr. Aakashi Bhatt, daughter of Sanjiv Bhatt, incarcerated whistleblower police officer who testified before India’s Supreme Court that Modi ordered the police to allow Hindus to kill Muslims Ashish Khetan, an investigative journalist who ran a secret sting operation in 2007 and recorded several men associated with Modi’s Hindu rightwing organization, RSS, confessing they carried out mass murders of Muslims

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