Human Rights Commission condemns the use of inflammatory rhetoric to incite violence and advocate hatred
Human Rights Commission condemns the use of inflammatory rhetoric to incite violence and advocate hatred
Director of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission, Ashwin Raj.
The Director of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission, Ashwin Raj has strongly condemned the use of inflammatory rhetoric on the social media that deliberately incites violence and advocates hatred and ill will between ethnic and religious groups under the guise of freedom of expression and democratic dissent.
Raj says the burning of mosques and shops in Taveuni and Labasa, and the open call for violence to convene outside parliament with any weapons whether it be knives, forks or matches to “erase these Muslims from Fiji” cannot be justified on any grounds as an act of democratic dissent through the exercise of free expression.