Talk:Suchitra Vijayan
Suchitra Vijayan is an American writer, essayist, activist, and photographer working across oral history, state violence, and visual storytelling (independent). As an attorney, she worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo, which gives legal aid to Iraqi refugees.[1].
In 2021, she fraudulently endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference as an academic community and a scholar and made the allegation
"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws.""[2]
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- ↑ Suchitra Vijayan website accessed November 2022
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022