الهند: قانون لوقف المصادمات المتكررة بين الهندوس والمسلمين

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في محاولة لوقف نزيف الموتى والجرحى من ضحايا المصادمات المتكررة التي تقع بين المسلمين والهندوس، والتي خلَّفت نحو نصف مليون ضحية منذ عام 1947 حين استقلت "باكستان" - طُرِحت مذكرة قانون على البرلمان الهندي لمناقشتها، تهدف للحد من تلك المصادمات وأعمال الشغب والاعتداءات العرقية، على إثر وقوع 725 ضحية في الشهور العشرة الأولى من العام الجاري، من بينهم 148 قتيلًا.

ويتضمن مشروع القانون فرض غرامات وعقوبات بالحبس على الموظفين ورجال الشرطة في حالة فشلهم في وقف العنف، إضافة إلى عقد محاكمات سريعة في محاكم خاصة، وإرشادات لكيفية تعويض الضحايا؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Indians push to tame Hindu-Muslim rioting with new bill

Sabra Rashid fled her village three months ago, as Hindu mobs started attacking their Muslim neighbors. With nowhere to return after her home was looted and burned, she is living in a tent camp with thousands of other Muslims.

One night this month, the youngest of her four children, 9-month-old Sufian, who had been shivering in the cold, suddenly went still. He was dead.

Tensions between the majority Hindu population and the Muslim minority go back centuries. Half a million people died in rioting during the partition of India in 1947, when Pakistan was created as a Muslim homeland. Although religious violence has dropped dramatically since then, the number of incidents is ticking upward of late — from 668 last year to 725 in the first 10 months of this year, causing 143 deaths, official data show. And many Indians are concerned that divisions between religious groups could deepen with the national elections scheduled for next year, especially because the main opposition party is led by a controversial Hindu nationalist, Narendra Modi.

“Each government has dealt with communal rioting in a completely arbitrary and prejudicial manner,” said Farah Naqvi, a member of the National Advisory Council, a government-appointed group of academics and activists, some of whom have worked on the bill. “Hundreds of thousands of people who have been permanently displaced by rioting are not even counted and recognized by the government. And those who incite riots from behind the scene are rarely brought to justice. It is unconscionable if the new, 21st-century India continues to look the other way.”

The bill, yet to be introduced, would put in place policies to prevent and limit communal and ethnic rioting. It would establish fines and jail sentences for public officials and police officers for failure to control violence. It would also guarantee speedy investigations and trials in special courts, and it would set guidelines for reparation for victims.