India preps for G20 summit of world leaders by bulldozing homes

The annual summit of the Group of 20 economies is the largest gathering of world leaders ever in New Delhi, with attendees including President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and others.

They will be greeted by some of the cleanest streets New Delhi has seen, ornamented by hundreds of thousands of lush flowers potted on freshly painted pavements. What they will not see are the hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced, or the slums that have been flattened or obscured by temporary fences bearing the G20 summit’s logo and photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Modi’s government hopes the beautification project will help showcase the best of what the world’s most populous country has to offer, further cementing its position on the global stage.

Anything that might disrupt that effort is unwelcome.

ikidd,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

As is tradition for G20 summits. Next they’ll be kettling protesters and sending in agent provacateurs like the police in Toronto when Canada hosted it.

Armen12,

“White Westerners when people of color actually want to be a part of the world”

I expected better from NBC, not this racist garbage that reeks of Trumpism

Fissionami,
@Fissionami@lemmy.ml avatar

India? Mhmmm. Well as I was speaking…

MonkderZweite,

So the best they have to offer is “fake”. Is that the message?

Maeve,

Afaik, other host countries have also done similarly when there is an important world gathering and even Olympics?

MonkderZweite,

Yes?

Maeve,

So the press call out India, but not other countries.

MonkderZweite, (edited )

I don’t think so? I’m not sure, but i do think there was something similiar the last G20? Or the one prior? Did i mix it up with Arabias slavery for olympics?

Maeve,

It’s so sad only certain nations get called out, and more than a bit suspicious, isn’t it?

snowbell,
@snowbell@beehaw.org avatar

I cant say I know what you are talking about. This kind of stuff gets called out all the time.

lemminator,

You sound removed and seem to be living under a rock or just awfully biased

Maeve,

It’s quite possible i haven’t seen them. I don’t use news aggregators and this is my only social media, so unless it’s what bothers locals in a small area, or i see it here, I really don’t know. Thanks for the reminder.

circuscritic,

No. Just one recent example would be how Brazil got a lot of negative press coverage for similar activities during the Rio Olympics.

Maeve,

I’m saying I don’t see it criticized much or any when other who does it and it’s telling. I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding you.

_lemmy_07,

Illegal enforcement is prevalent in Old and New Delhi. This happened during CWG, happening during G20 and will happen when Delhi hosts the next big event. All the “homes” will come back and demolished again, it’s a cycle.

AnonymousBaba,

*illeagal home . weird they always left the important part

Catoblepas,

Amit’s nine children were asleep late last month when their home was suddenly raided by officials who brought four bulldozers with them. They were among almost 125 families whose homes were destroyed in South Delhi’s Subhash camp, 10 miles from the summit’s main venue.

“They didn’t even let us grab our belongings and started beating us before we could even finish,” the 34-year-old ragman who collects trash and sells it to a recycler said in an interview Wednesday.

Oh, well as long as they were illegal homes this is okay then!

Many had spent their entire lives in the area.

“I was born here, I grew up here, I got married here and had a kid here,” said Gujjar, 21, who like Amit and many other slum residents goes by one name.

In the US this would be a slam dunk case for adverse possession.

AnonymousBaba,

Oh, well as long as they were illegal homes this is okay then!

it is not U.S sadly and that was illeagal house

Redhotkurt,
@Redhotkurt@kbin.social avatar

*illeagal home . weird they always left the important part

Well, that changes everything. You know what, they should just shoot them!! They aren't human anyway.

/s

AnonymousBaba,

yes like illeagal immigrant /s

Joyboy,
@Joyboy@lemmy.ml avatar

These houses were there for several years without a problem, paying utilities and housing poor children and women, suddenly they are illegal because someone wants to use this opportunity for their own disgusting motives. While we’re discussing G20, you know what’s really ironic, it’s that in a country where 80% of the population would die of hunger if not fed by public welfare. They are serving delegates of foreign countries in utensils made up of gold and silver.

AnonymousBaba,

still illeagal tho and they left that part out

emergencyfood,

Have the courts found them to be illegal? There is a procedure to be followed for demolishing illegal encroachments. Demolitions of ‘illegal’ houses have recently been stopped by if I remember correctly the Punjab High Court.

AnonymousBaba, (edited )

sadly thats not punjab and those house were illegal

emergencyfood,

those house were illeagal

First, the word is ‘illegal’. Second, the houses are only illegal if a court has found them to be encroaching on public property. Third, even if they are illegal, the owners have to first be served notice to vacate. (It appears they were not.)

Also I mentioned the Punjab HC’s verdict because in India the judgement of a High Court or the Supreme Court establishes a legal precedent that applies across the entire country.

RTRedreovic,
@RTRedreovic@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Don’t feed the troll. These Upper Caste fucks only know how to bootlick the Hindutvadi regime.

AnonymousBaba, (edited )

i am not upper caste. only around 25% of population is upper caste and bjp got 37.7% votes last general election

AnonymousBaba,

thanks for pointing out my mistake in spelling

AnonymousBaba,

(It appears they were not.)

thanks fo assuming

This is following a Delhi high court hearing on May 2 wherein the court refused to stay the demolition drive against the illegal JJ cluster and gave the inhabitants time till May 31 to vacate the area.

hindustantimes.com/…/pwd-demolishes-illegal-slums…

if my spelling is wrong is correct it in your head

emergencyfood,

Thanks for the source. But I was saying they do not seem to have been served notice. I made that assumption based on this line:-

‘Residents … alleged that the demolitions were carried out in complete violation of laws … that eviction notices were only served as bulldozers were rolling into their street.’

(Source: www.thehindu.com/article66838590.ece)

I haven’t listened to the complete podcast, and I’m sure this is just one side of the story; the municipality will have their own version.

AnonymousBaba,

thanks

downpunxx,
@downpunxx@kbin.social avatar

As is the custom prior to all G20's that have ever been held anywhere, bulldoze the homeless and get them out of the way, must make it looks spiffy don't ya know

And009,

No one is speaking of stray dogs… They’ve been rounded up and dumped into a closed area with no proper food, water or shelter.

They’re removing everything that makes the country ‘look’ poor. And also making shit shittier in the process.

HappyMeatbag, (edited )
@HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org avatar

Woah, woah, woah. Yes, the G20 is basically the Legion of Doom (if it was made entirely of Lex Luthor clones), but they usually at least try to slap a smiley face on their atrocities. Bulldozing homes is a little too on the nose, isn’t it, Modi?

Authorities say they have also deployed several dozen people to mimic the sounds made by langurs so that the rhesus monkeys will be further convinced the cardboard animals are real.

So… they hired people to walk around making langur noises? I want a detailed story specifically about this job. First, though, I need to hit Wikipedia and find out what a langur is.

Edit: Oh, it’s this.

Joyboy,
@Joyboy@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m curious if this actually works.

zephyreks,

What? No way!

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