Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri receives death threats for his film ‘The Kashmir Files’

Hindus are inert in exposing atrocities against them. Religious fanatics take advantage and constantly attack Hindus !

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A film made 30 years after the genocide of Hindus in Kashmir is shameful for Hindus. Hindus are inert in exposing such atrocities against them. No wonder religious fanatics take advantage of any situation and constantly attack Hindus !

Filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri deactivated his Twitter account after he was shadow-banned by Twitter and received death threats and vulgar calls to stop the release of his film. ‘The Kashmir Files,’ written and directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, is based on video interviews with first-generation victims of the Kashmir Genocide of the Kashmiri Hindu Community.

The film reportedly takes the audiences back to the year 1989 when an unprecedented insurgency began in Kashmir and a vast majority of Hindus were forced to leave the Valley. Approximately 1,00,000 of an estimated Kashmiri Hindu population of 1,40,000 left the Valley between February and March 1990. More left in the following years so that, by 2011, only around 3,000 families remained in the Valley.

The filmmaker penned an open letter explaining the ordeal he has gone through since he started the campaign #TheKashmirFiles on the microblogging site to promote his film. He explained how he and his family are being continuously hounded by what seems to be ‘Pakistani and Chinese bots’ for making an “honest film on the pain and sufferings of our Kashmiri brothers and sisters”.

The filmmaker added, “I have always spoken against India’s enemies. #The KashmirFiles is an attempt to expose inhuman terrorism that has destroyed India’s most sacred land of Shiva & Saraswati. And now religious terrorism is making inroads in mainland India. That’s why they want people like me silenced. I always speak for those who can’t be heard. I have been exposing many untruths and fake narratives by anti-India Urban Naxals. They want to silence me. But I know very well that silence helps tragic events like Kashmir Genocide. They must know that I can’t be silenced”.

‘The Kashmir Files,’ hailed as one of the most important, current, and untold stories in Indian history was invited by various major institutes and organisations in the United States for over 30 power-packed screenings and garnered a resounding reaction.

Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri deactivates Twitter account after receiving death threats for his upcoming movie ‘The Kashmir Files’https://t.co/8fqAFavkTp

— OpIndia.com (@OpIndia_com) February 19, 2022

Twitter suspensions and shadow-banning

Twitter, the social media juggernaut known for its liberal bias, has been often chastised for arbitrarily suspending or shadow-banning accounts of those who don’t share its political ideologies. Last year, on 15th December, journalist Aarti Tikoo, a Kashmiri Hindu herself, took to Twitter to raise alarm about Islamic terrorists from Kashmir issuing death threats to her brother. Two days later, on 17^th December, Twitter India decided to ‘lock’ Aarti Tikoo’s account. The notice that Aarti got said that she could ‘unlock’ her account if she deleted the tweet about her brother getting threats.