India's Muslims continue to face discrimination and hate following Modi's election win
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🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This month Indian Prime Minister Norengra Modi secured a third term, but his party lost its majority in Parliament. |
| 0:07.0 | Modi portrays himself as the strong leader of a rising India, but his 10 years in office have been marked by a fierce crackdown on |
| 0:15.1 | dissent on millions of Indian citizens who belong to ethnic and religious minorities. |
| 0:20.9 | Producers Zebavarsi travelled across Northern India to report on the impact on India's Muslims. |
| 0:27.0 | Nesled in Northern India, Kartmika is a Muslim majority village where the roads are dusty, |
| 0:36.0 | crumbling walls are patched with sun-baked bricks and the memories are searing. |
| 0:41.0 | Last year, this forgotten hamlet suffered the unforgettable. |
| 0:47.0 | I couldn't believe it but I had to come to my senses. I had no choice. We never thought |
| 0:56.1 | something like this could happen to us. We spoke to Saajida about her husband Janaid and his friend Nasir, |
| 1:02.9 | killed by Hindu extremists last year. |
| 1:05.8 | Their car torched, their bodies burnt. |
| 1:08.7 | Junaid and Sajidah raised six children, |
| 1:11.5 | that's their eldest, 13-year- old Parvana, with their youngest, 4 year old |
| 1:16.0 | Varfana seemed sick, depressed and wouldn't speak much. Her mother told us, she's been |
| 1:22.1 | like this since her father's murder. |
| 1:24.0 | She has never recovered since her father was killed. |
| 1:27.0 | We are trying to get her treatment. |
| 1:32.0 | She had an attack after her father's death. |
| 1:36.1 | She truly never recovered. Just weeks after we met her, |
| 1:39.7 | Parvana died. It's not clear how. the family blames heartbreak. |
| 1:45.0 | The whole family is heartbroken. |
| 1:48.0 | Jeunette's cousin Ismael visits this grave site often. |
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