I keep seeing the argument that naming the fact that Hindus were specifically targeted in the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide (which is well-documented) will cause “communal tension.” It boggles the mind that the trauma caused to Hindus by erasing their genocide is considered

less divisive than mitigating Muslim moral injury and essentially endorsing Islamist violence against Hindus. Yet this has become so normalized that Hindus are accused *even by other Hindus* of being divisive for naming our own targeted, documented genocide while simultaneously

accusing Hindus - without any evidence and based purely on narrative - of orchestrating a genocide of Muslims in India. As a result of this rhetoric, spewing hatred at and fearing Hindus is considered “justified.”

So that even when violence against Hindus is reported in
the Western press, the blame is always turned back on Hindus - even when it’s happening in Leicester or California.
This is why the erasure of genocide is genocide.

You know what would help calm communal tension? Truth and reconciliation.
Stop erasing genocide.