Washington: According to the US State Department’s annual report to Congress on worldwide religious freedom, attacks on members of minority communities in India in 2021, including killings, assaults, and intimidation, occurred throughout the year.
The report, which was released by Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department’s Foggy Bottom headquarters, provides its own perspective on the state and breaches of religious freedom around the world, with individual chapters for each country.
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The report’s India section avoids expressing a judgment on religious minorities’ status, instead documenting various facets of it as reported in the Indian press and government papers. It also liberally recounts the complaints of numerous non-profit organizations and minority institutions regarding attacks on them, but is mostly silent on the findings of the officials’ investigations and the government’s reactions.
“Throughout the year, there were numerous attacks on members of religious minority communities, including murders, assaults, and intimidation. There were cases of ‘cow vigilantism’ against non-Hindus based on suspicions of cow slaughter or beef trade, for example “According to the report’s India section.
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