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As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi rubbed shoulders with Henry Kissinger and other former world leaders in India on Tuesday, Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Ilhan Omar questioned State Department officials on U.S. support for the Modi regime during a hearing on Capitol Hill.
Omar took particular aim at the Modi government’s recent moves to strip Muslims in the country’s northeast state of Assam and the building of camps in the region that critics of the Indian government fear may be used to house those decided as non-citizens by the regime.
“At what point do we no longer share values with India?” Omar asked assistant secretary of state for South Asia Alice Wells. “Are we waiting for the Muslims in Assam to be put in those camps?”
Wells, in reply, said that the U.S. was satisfied that the decisions by the Modi government were legitimate due to the fact that they were legal under Indian law.
“As a democracy, we respect other democracies’ abilities to self-police and self-regulate,” said Wells.
House subcommittee on Asian affairs chair Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) was unsatisfied with that response.
“A human rights abuse doesn’t cease to be a human rights abuse just because it’s being done pursuant to the law or court rulings of the country committing the abuse,” Sherman said.
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