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Amnesty’s Paid Facebook Posts Against Govt.: What Does It Have to Hide?

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Aahana Ashi
Amnesty’s Paid Facebook Posts Against Govt.: What Does It Have to Hide?

 

In recent weeks and months, Amnesty India through sponsored posts on popular social media platform has been in an overdrive attacking the government for following what is normal course of law and procedures.

However, if one closely examined the track record of Amnesty India, the organisation’s crying wolf over being investigated for possible financial irregularities seems rather motivated and uncalled for.

Just days ago, PM Modi in his reply to the presidential address had revealed, “about 20000 NGOs have shut their operations after the government sought details of their funding.

Back in February 2014 and under the Congress rule, the Indian government had frozen funding of nearly half a million dollars to Amnesty India over concerns about the source of some of the cash with the home ministry deciding to prevent the organisation from taking receipt of the money from its parent organisation in Britain after around a third of the overall amount was traced to an offshore trust.

In Feb 2012, the former PM Manmohan Singh is on record accusing the foreign NGOs – and Amnesty International is an NGO – of disrupting the development path of the country in context of protests against Kudankulam nuclear power plant.

In addition, there are numerous incidents to show that Amnesty practices convenient and selective advocacy only taking up the cause of some and overlooking the equally justified cause of others.

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