{"id":1118,"date":"2001-08-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/20\/2001-08-20-treatment-of-hindus-in-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2001-08-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-08-20T12:00:00","slug":"2001-08-20-treatment-of-hindus-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/20\/2001-08-20-treatment-of-hindus-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment of Hindus in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.makabusi.com\/2001\/04\/13\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>ZIMBABWE, AFRICA, February, 24, 2001: Whites were not the only race coming under attack in the racially-motivated parliamentary election campaign currently ravaging Zimbabwe. Asians, in particular, are being targeted, through a hate-filled document sent to prominent businessmen in the community and believed to have originated from the offices of black economic empowerment organization, the Affirmative Action Group (AAG). The document, &#8220;Indigenization versus Indians&#8221; comes as a rude shock to many Asians who, as second or third generation Zimbabweans, considered themselves &#8220;indigenous.&#8221; The contents of the document state that this is not how the propagators of affirmative action in Zimbabwe view them. &#8220;Black people did not die for this country so that Indians could go on oppressing them,&#8221; states the document. The situation is the same as in many other countries where the Indian communities have lived, even for generations.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE ZIMBABWE, AFRICA, February, 24, 2001: Whites were not the only race coming under attack in the racially-motivated,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}