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Background
On the day of Partition 1947 it is announced that the Muslims majority areas will be in Pakistan side and Kashmir was and still is a Muslims area but Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir in 1947 was not in favor to give Kashmir to Pakistan and announced to be on Indian side that was not the right announcement according to the law but it happens in October 1947. From that day, the Kashmir movement started and all Kashmiri starts rising slogan against the state of India. Well now 5th Feb of every year all Pakistani people with their Kashmiri brother pay homage to all the martyrs and express their love and care for their Kashmiri brothers who are still under the Indian Government and feel pain every minute when they show cruel behavior against them.
Kashmir Insurgency:
There are several episodes where the Indian Army men failed to keep the decorum of military men and brought disdain to the Nation. Several rape cases where reported to have committed by Indian army men while serving in Jammu and Kashmir.
There are many cases of human rights abuses J&K where Indian Army, CRPF, BSF have been held accountable for.
A lot of abuses, mass-murders, rapes, fake-encounters were reported to have committed by Indian Army in Disruptive Areas[DA] where Armed Forces Special Powers Act [AFSPA] is in use.
More than 47000 people died in Kashmiri insurgency and around 20000 of them are civilians. Many of them were killed by Indian security forces.
Human rights watch reports:
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/INDIA935.PDF
A Kashmiri youth with an eye injury sustained after he was hit by pellets fired by Indian security forces during a protest in Srinagar. Photograph: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images
A friend who’s visiting Kashmir reported that the “gravely ill can’t get to hospitals and can’t find medicines”. In short, yet another crushing siege in the decades-long relay of sieges. The world doesn’t need to know. Indiais a democracy.
In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan. This gives the state easy demons to portray and then slay.
The Indian state now appears to believe its own fantasies, which it acts out by shooting its way out of a crisis every time Kashmiris voice their anger or political demands. It’s as though India must perform rituals of brutal violence on the Kashmiri body to keep it tamed. In 2008, 60 people were shot when Kashmiris protested at the grant of hundreds of acres of land to a temple trust, because they believed this was an Indian attempt to change the demographic of their Muslim-majority region. In 2009, protests raged for weeks after the rape and murder of two female family members from Shopian in northern Kashmir was dismissed by the authorities as a drowning.
When will the Kashmiri nightmare end?
In 2010, 120 people, including teenagers, were butchered on the streets. Hundreds of families were devastated, gifted eternal grief by a draconian state. Not one member of the armed forces was charged, let alone convicted, for those killings. And that’s precisely why the soldiers kill again and again. That summer, when scores of adolescents were slain in the alleys, people gasped at the sheer scale of mayhem, but some also believed it might not happen again. It’s too much, I heard said.
Policymakers in Kashmir and Delhi then deliberated upon what kind of weapon to deploy on a people the majority of whom quite simply don’t want to be with India. They never have. The state came up with something that might thwart and injure protesters, but not kill them. A buckshot gun, a pellet grenade, a “non-lethal weapon”, we were told. The lexicon of conflict in a place such as Kashmir engenders normalisation of even the most ghastly thing. It felt to me then that many were relieved that Kashmir’s young would no longer face full-size deathly bullets, but tinier steel pellets instead. At least they won’t die, it was said.
Over the last week, doctors in Kashmir have performed about 150 eye surgeries to try to remove pellets from retinas. Most of the patients will lose their eyesight, one doctor said. “It’s a fate worse than death,” said another. No other country has wilfully blinded scores of youths.
Meanwhile the dead have been interred in martyrs’ graveyards. Most localities, in city and country, have one so as to remember their slain. Those wounded will live in partial or total darkness all their lives.
Kashmiris say Azadi – or independence – is an infinitely better option.
Author Zeeshan khan
Background
On the day of Partition 1947 it is announced that the Muslims majority areas will be in Pakistan side and Kashmir was and still is a Muslims area but Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir in 1947 was not in favor to give Kashmir to Pakistan and announced to be on Indian side that was not the right announcement according to the law but it happens in October 1947. From that day, the Kashmir movement started and all Kashmiri starts rising slogan against the state of India. Well now 5th Feb of every year all Pakistani people with their Kashmiri brother pay homage to all the martyrs and express their love and care for their Kashmiri brothers who are still under the Indian Government and feel pain every minute when they show cruel behavior against them.
Kashmir Insurgency:
There are several episodes where the Indian Army men failed to keep the decorum of military men and brought disdain to the Nation. Several rape cases where reported to have committed by Indian army men while serving in Jammu and Kashmir.
There are many cases of human rights abuses J&K where Indian Army, CRPF, BSF have been held accountable for.
A lot of abuses, mass-murders, rapes, fake-encounters were reported to have committed by Indian Army in Disruptive Areas[DA] where Armed Forces Special Powers Act [AFSPA] is in use.
More than 47000 people died in Kashmiri insurgency and around 20000 of them are civilians. Many of them were killed by Indian security forces.
Human rights watch reports:
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/INDIA935.PDF
A Kashmiri youth with an eye injury sustained after he was hit by pellets fired by Indian security forces during a protest in Srinagar. Photograph: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images
A friend who’s visiting Kashmir reported that the “gravely ill can’t get to hospitals and can’t find medicines”. In short, yet another crushing siege in the decades-long relay of sieges. The world doesn’t need to know. Indiais a democracy.
In its intransigence over Kashmir, the Indian state has, among other things, waged a narrative war, in which it tells itself and its citizens via servile media, that there is no dispute, that it’s an internal matter – and whatever troubles there are in the idyllic valley are the work of jihadis from Pakistan. This gives the state easy demons to portray and then slay.
The Indian state now appears to believe its own fantasies, which it acts out by shooting its way out of a crisis every time Kashmiris voice their anger or political demands. It’s as though India must perform rituals of brutal violence on the Kashmiri body to keep it tamed. In 2008, 60 people were shot when Kashmiris protested at the grant of hundreds of acres of land to a temple trust, because they believed this was an Indian attempt to change the demographic of their Muslim-majority region. In 2009, protests raged for weeks after the rape and murder of two female family members from Shopian in northern Kashmir was dismissed by the authorities as a drowning.
When will the Kashmiri nightmare end?
In 2010, 120 people, including teenagers, were butchered on the streets. Hundreds of families were devastated, gifted eternal grief by a draconian state. Not one member of the armed forces was charged, let alone convicted, for those killings. And that’s precisely why the soldiers kill again and again. That summer, when scores of adolescents were slain in the alleys, people gasped at the sheer scale of mayhem, but some also believed it might not happen again. It’s too much, I heard said.
Policymakers in Kashmir and Delhi then deliberated upon what kind of weapon to deploy on a people the majority of whom quite simply don’t want to be with India. They never have. The state came up with something that might thwart and injure protesters, but not kill them. A buckshot gun, a pellet grenade, a “non-lethal weapon”, we were told. The lexicon of conflict in a place such as Kashmir engenders normalisation of even the most ghastly thing. It felt to me then that many were relieved that Kashmir’s young would no longer face full-size deathly bullets, but tinier steel pellets instead. At least they won’t die, it was said.
Over the last week, doctors in Kashmir have performed about 150 eye surgeries to try to remove pellets from retinas. Most of the patients will lose their eyesight, one doctor said. “It’s a fate worse than death,” said another. No other country has wilfully blinded scores of youths.
Meanwhile the dead have been interred in martyrs’ graveyards. Most localities, in city and country, have one so as to remember their slain. Those wounded will live in partial or total darkness all their lives.
Kashmiris say Azadi – or independence – is an infinitely better option.
Author Zeeshan khan
