If Priyanka Chopra had met with Congolese refugees or Ukrainian refugees, the trolls might have cheered her. However Muslim refugees are every other remember.
There she faces ire of the troll brigade for the unpardonable crime of traveling a Rohingya refugee camp. Even extra shockingly, Priyanka Chopra became moved sufficient with the aid of the plight of small children to write a social media publish approximately them, appealing for assist.
“this is an entire era of youngsters that don't have any future in sight. Thru their smiles I may want to see the vacancy in their eyes… the arena wishes to care. We need to care. These youngsters are our future.”
however the troll brigade cares handiest about whataboutery even when it comes to children. What approximately the Kashmir Pandits? What approximately the Kairana Hindus?
For instance:
puppy tera Bharatiya bhare aur madad tu Rohingya ki karegi…. Kabhi Kashmir pandit wa Kairana ke hinduon ke liye madad karne agey nahin aayi. Itni hamdardi un Rohingyo se to wahin bas jaa…. (Indians fill your stomach, and also you want to assist the Rohingyas… You by no means got here ahead to assist the Kashmir Pandits or Kairana Hindus. When you have a lot sympathy for the Rohingyas, cross settle there.)
It’s funny how whataboutery seems a one-manner avenue on occasion. It’s no longer like those trolling Chopra for now not touring the Kashmiri Pandits have tweeted often about the plight of the Rohingyas or the Syrians. While Anupam Kher or Sanjay Suri express their unity with the Kashmiri Pandits, or once they tweet #25YearsofKPExile, due to the fact it's miles virtually their right, they're now not without delay asked “what about the Rohingya?” Or what about the Tibetans for that matter, many of whom are living in exile right right here in India for many years.
Case people as opposed to them
nobody expects Priyanka Chopra to wave a magic wand and clear up the Rohingya hassle. She did now not visit Cox Bazar and call for extra Rohingyas be settled in India. So why troll her for merely visiting the camp? The problem of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits is a true difficulty. But the cause of the Kashmiri Pandits will not be diminished in any manner by way of her traveling the Rohingyas. The constitution of a Unicef goodwill ambassador does no longer say her goodwill paintings, like charity, must start at home. Is there an unwritten rule that except she meets the Kashmiri Pandits, she isn't allowed to move meet some other refugee organization everywhere in the international? It’s now not as though Chopra is stopping the likes of an Anupam Kher from turning into a worldwide ambassador for the Pandit cause.
However it’s not truly approximately the Pandits, is it? Many appear less inquisitive about actual justice or rehabilitation for Kashmiri Pandits than in the usage of them to score political factors against humans doing humanitarian work with communities they dislike, which may be Rohingyas, Syrians or others. Probabilities are if Chopra had met Congolese refugees or Ukrainian refugees, a lot of those trolling her now could be pleased to bits approximately an Indian getting interest on the global degree. However Muslim refugees are some other rely.
Teddy bears for a reason
Rohingyas were portrayed as a form of worm that infiltrated India. The brutal murder and rape of a younger baby in Kashmir turned into visible as the “handiwork of jihadi Rohingyas”, a way to scapegoat humans irritated approximately settling “criminal Rohingya in Hindu areas”. How’s that for blacklisting an entire community?
That anger now gets an extra enhance from reports that accuse the militant Arakan Rohingya Salvation military (ARSA) of massacres in Hindu villages in Maungdaw, in which the guys have been killed in execution style.
Tirana Hassan, crisis reaction director of Amnesty worldwide, known as the killings “brutal and senseless” and said “the perpetrators of this heinous crime must be held to account”. The Rohingyas might be the sufferers of ethnic cleansing however their militant outfit ARSA may also be the perpetrators of a massacre. Both can be simultaneously genuine.
There’s a bent once in a while to drum up help for victims by means of turning them into teddy bears for his or her reason. It’s easy to forget that civil wars are bloody and vicious, and brutal and terrible things take place on all facets. It’s also easy to neglect that after one of these facets is the state, the stability of power is regularly grotesquely lopsided. Amnesty made that point by pronouncing that “duty for those atrocities is each bit as critical as it's miles for the crimes towards humanity accomplished by way of Myanmar’s safety forces in northern Rakhine nation”. Consistent with them, a few seven hundred,000 Rohingya had been driven out in their houses by means of Myanmar security forces.
Different refugee businesses, identical plight
those who plead the case for the Kashmiri Pandits might be on a great deal morally stronger ground in the event that they pleaded the case of all refugees pressured to escape their houses instead of pitting one refugee institution towards the opposite. In the end, whether the camp is in Cox Bazaar or Delhi or Jammu, the plight of the refugee marooned often in a no-man’s land is the identical. They may be at great bargaining chips for vested pursuits, and at worst unwanted flotsam inside the nations in which they wash up.
Amnesty, primarily based on its interviews, has said that while ARSA ought to recruit a few Rohingya villagers to help them perform the massacres, the “overwhelming majority of Rohingya did not.” however the vast majority of Rohingya will nevertheless pay the rate.
Indians, of anybody, ought to understand the horrible unfairness of this, given how many Sikhs paid a deadly charge as a network for the murderous actions of folks that assassinated Indira Gandhi. However we best learn training whilst handy to us.
And the way does all this anti-Rohingya outrage without a doubt assist the terrible Kashmiri Pandits once more? Might now not pressuring the PDP-BJP holy alliance be of more realistic use on this regard?