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PBS News Hour - Segments

India's Muslims continue to face discrimination and hate following Modi's election win

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi secured a third term, but his party lost its majority in parliament. Modi portrays himself as a strong leader of a rising nation, but his ten years in office have been marked by a fierce crackdown on dissent and India's ethnic and religious minorities. Producer Zeba Warsi traveled across northern India to report on the impact that has had on Muslims there. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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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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