President-elect is a Pakistani: Vivek Agnihotri threatens to sue Oxford Union
01 Jun 2022 12:14:07
Mumbai, June 1: Filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri took to Twitter for support after he was allegedly ‘cancelled’ by Oxford University. The director said in a video that he was invited by Oxford University in UK, to make an address on May 31.
Agnihotri's film The Kashmir Files, released in March 2022, was centred on the targeted killings and exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s.
However, a few hours before the event, he was told there was a mistake and they would not be able to host him. "It was all confirmed on email but a few hours back, they said they had made a mistake, there was a double booking and they wouldn’t be able to host me today. Without even asking me, they changed the date to July 1 because on that day no student would be there and there’s no point doing an event,” he said.
In his tweet, Agnihotri said, “Yet another Hindu voice is curbed at Hinduphobic Oxford University. They have cancelled me. In reality, they cancelled Hindu Genocide and Hindu students who are a minority at Oxford University. The president-elect [of the union] is a Pakistani. Please share and support me in this most difficult fight.” He added that he would file a law suit against the university.
“They call me Islamophobic. As if killing thousands of Kashmiri Hindus was not Hinduphobic but making a film on the truth is Islamophobic Hindus are in minority at Oxford University. This is oppression of the minority," Agnihotri said.
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In his video, Agnihotri also narrated an anecdote at Cambridge University. He said he was told his address there could not be recorded at the last minute. “This is curbing of freedom of expression. This happened because a few Pakistani and Kashmiri Muslim students protested. On social media, they write that it’s because I support PM Modi,” he said.
Agnihotri's film The Kashmir Files, released in March 2022, was centred on the targeted killings and exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s.