The selective amnesia of the English media in India is simply breathtaking.
There appears to be a cardinal rule: Never publish anything that would be in the least bit negative about Muslims in general and Pakistanis in particular; or about Christians; or about Marxists in general and the Chinese in particular.
For instance, the Chinese genocide in occupied Tibet is glossed over, and an Indian English magazine's famous editor goes on a China-sponsored tour there and writes a glowing account of how life is beautiful.
After all, it's just details that a million Tibetans have been wiped out and a lot of their women forcibly sterilised in an explicit path towards genocide.
Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, and rose-coloured glasses redux?
When the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found two Catholic nuns guilty of crimes against humanity in June 2001, the Indian English media simply buried the story.
Here is an excerpt from the Economist magazine's report, 'Judging genocide', June 14, 2001.
On June 8th%u2026 two Roman Catholic nuns were found guilty in a different court, thousands of miles away, of complicity in the Rwandan genocide. Their trial had lasted a mere two months.
