A European Union-based human rights activist, Andy Vermaut, on Sunday described the EU DisinfoLab’s revelations about an Indian network involved in a fake news campaign as “enormously damaging” and has called for the institution of a lawsuit against the Indian government to thwart the recurrence of such propaganda.
Vermaut, an official member of the International Alliance for the Defence of Rights and Freedoms (AIDL), an NGO with the participatory status to the United Nations ECOSOC committee, said, “This should have consequences for the Indian government that has the final responsibility. The Indian government should be held accountable for this in the court”.
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All the victim parties need to sit together and conduct legal proceedings against India for the “enormous damage” caused to Pakistan, China, the European Union, the United Nations, and the minorities living in India, he suggested this in an interview with Islamabad Policy Research Institute.
Vermaut, who is also President of PostVersa, Human Rights and Fundamental Rights chapter, stated, “If we do not do this, new sites will be created tomorrow. We will have to act on this”.
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He said that the revelations of the EU DisinfoLab show that even the Indian people suffered at the hand of its government which pretended to have the support of the largest parliament in the world and also the EU.
“Who would have ever thought that this would be possible that we could be so deceived today in 2020. No one would have ever thought that a country like India is dealing with such matters,” he remarked.
