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submitted 4 weeks ago by njm1314@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

MUMBAI, India — Two days before police finally came to arrest him, the Rev. Stan Swamy recorded a video of himself speaking directly into the camera.

"They want to put me out of the way," the ailing 83-year-old Jesuit priest said.

His voice sounded frail. But what he was saying was explosive.

The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said, was targeting him in retaliation for his advocacy on behalf of Indigenous people in Indian jails. A sociologist as well as a Roman Catholic clergyman, Swamy had recently published a study of 3,000 people jailed for being members of banned Maoist groups. He found that 97% of them had no such affiliation and that many of their trials were held without lawyers, in a language they didn't understand. He'd filed a case on their behalf in the state court of Jharkhand, where he lived. All of this had embarrassed the government, he said.

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[-] OkGo@lemm.ee 30 points 4 weeks ago

Democracy in India died a long time ago, it’s now just political posturing.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Continuing the long history of fascists hating and murdering Jesuits.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

It says what those of us paying attention already knew: his government isn't a legitimate "conservative" government. It's a Hindu-nationalist fascist regime.

[-] sugartits@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

No gonna lie, that headline sounded like a setup to a joke.

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