{"id":57410,"date":"2023-08-10T01:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/aug\/09\/narendra-modi-bjp-india-manipur-violence"},"modified":"2023-08-10T01:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T16:24:02","slug":"narendra-modi-has-ignored-religious-violence-for-too-long-now-he-must-face-the-music-priya-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57410","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi has ignored religious violence for too long. Now he must face the music | Priya Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloodshed in Manipur is just the latest example of sweeping ethnic frictions. The PM must show he is the solution, not the problem<\/p>\n<p>It is a hot and furious week in India\u2019s parliament. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, is accused of turning a blind eye to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/21\/manipur-india-why-is-there-conflict-and-how-is-the-government-responding\">three months of bloodshed<\/a> in some of the poorest villages of India, in the remote north-east state of Manipur. Barbaric details are surfacing: hundreds of villages destroyed, Christian churches and schools torched, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/20\/modi-speaks-out-after-video-of-sexual-assault-on-women-in-manipur-emerges\">widespread sexual assault of women<\/a>. About 50,000 people have fled their homes; at least 124 are dead.<\/p>\n<p>This week, at last, Modi is being forced by a no-confidence motion to speak about the violence. The charge against him: a \u201cbrazen indifference\u201d to the killing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/aug\/09\/narendra-modi-bjp-india-manipur-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloodshed in Manipur is just the latest example of sweeping ethnic frictions. The PM must show he is the solution, not the problemIt is a hot and furious week in India\u2019s parliament. Narendra Modi, the prime minister, is accused of turning a blind eye t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57411,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57410\/revisions\/57411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}