ISLAMABAD – Three Nobel Prize Laureates have demanded of Bill & MelindaGates Foundation to rescind its award to Indian Prime Minister NarendraModi for blatant basic human rights violations in occupied Kashmiri,attacks on minorities in India and his role in horrific massacre of Gujarat.
In their joint letter addressed to Foundation, Mairead Maguire, TawakkolAbdel-Salam Karman, and Shirin Ebadi expressed their serious reservations.
They said under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, India has descended intodangerous and deadly chaos that has consistently undermined human rights,democracy.
This is particularly troubling to us as the stated mission of yourfoundation is to preserve life and fight inequity,” they added.
The situation in the state of Assam and Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmiris cause for grave concern as well.
“The organization “Genocide Watch” has issued not one, but two alerts forIndia in these regions.
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In Assam, 1.9 million Indians have been stripped of citizenship; inKashmir, since August, 800,000 Indian armed forces have kept eight millionKashmiris without phone or internet service for the last month,” they added.
They further said because of these human rights abuses, children inOccupied Kashmir from Kindergarten to college are unable to attend school.
They also referred to the attacks on minorities, specifically IndianMuslims, Christians, and Dalits.
They requested the Foundation to rescind its award to Modi because by doingso, they would send a clear and powerful message that the Bill and MelindaGates Foundation took its aim of equity, justice, and human rights for allseriously – and that it was committed to promoting these values in aconsistent fashion.
