Kashmir hunger strikers slam India plan for Hindu colonies

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

Kashmiri protesters hurl stones at an armored Indian police van during an anti-India rally in Srinagar on April 18, 2015, after police shot dead a teenage student. (©AFP)

Pro-independence leaders in Indian-controlled Kashmir have waged a hunger strike against the government to protest New Delhi’s plan to build separate townships for Hindu migrants in the disputed Muslim majority region, Press TV reports.

On Saturday, Indian police arrested a top Kashmiri leader at the site of the hunger strike in Srinagar after the decision by New Delhi drew widespread condemnation from all quarters within the territory, with leaders describing the move as a conspiracy to turn Kashmir into another Palestine.

The arrest of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chief Yasin Malik came shortly after he announced the 30-hour long hunger strike to protest the bid to establish the separate township for Pandits in the disputed valley.

“We oppose this separate colony system because we have bitter experience in Israel,” said Malik, pointing to the illegal building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. He further insisted that Kashmiri Hindus are welcome to return and “live here with their Kashmiri Muslim brothers.”

He was also quoted by the local media as saying, “People who are living here have a tradition to live together in joint colonies in villages and towns. Since the last five-six years, more than 5,000 Kashmiri Pandits have come back and are living with Kashmiri Muslims in joint mohallas (neighborhoods).”

"We will not allow separate colonies for Kashmiri Pandits. We want them to stay with other communities," Malik reiterated.

Kashmiri relatives of a teenage student killed by India police mourn over his body in Srinagar on April 18, 2015. (©AFP)
Hindu scholar Swami Agnivesh also participated in the protest event in Srinagar and vowed total support for Malik, saying, “I came here to express my fullest solidarity with Yasin Malik. Any type of dividing people’s hearts and minds ultimately gives rise to terrorism.”

Many of the minority Kashmiri Hindus fled the disputed valley after the outbreak of pro-independence struggle against India’s rule in Kashmir, a region known for a tradition of communal harmony.

While India blames pro-independence fighters for the exodus of the Hindus, the leaders accuse the government of forcing Hindus to leave the region.

Meanwhile, local observers believe the building of what they refer to as “Israeli-type colonies” will become a source of insecurity and hatred and give reason for many persecuted minorities such as Muslims, Sikhs and Christians to demand separate homelands.

The latest developments in the restive region came a day after another Kashmiri leader, Masarat Alam, was detained by Indian police for waving a Pakistani flag and chanting pro-Pakistan slogans at a rally where thousands welcomed Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani following his return from New Delhi.

Hurriyat leaders have also opposed the plan to build separate townships for Kashmiri Pandits and have called for a complete shutdown of the valley over the issue.

On Friday, at least 14 people were wounded after Indian police forces attacked protestors in Srinagar during a rally against the detention of Kashmiri leaders.



PressTV-Kashmiris slam India’s Hindu colony plan

 

[IndoUS]

Let them die in hunger strike for all I care. They will not let the displaced Hindu community live in peace if they settle between them. Better to provide separate living for peaceful livelihood.

 

[lightoftruth]

Few paid Kashmiri's slam India's safe kashmiri resettlement plans in Kashmir.

 

[special]

let those fools die there, no need to arrest. these are the basterds who tried to kill kashmiri pandits. a separate township is better, it will be great dangerous for pandiths to live among these terrorists.

 

[$@rJen]

I kindly request the IA and J&J police to not to Arrest yasin malik ... let that B@stard die of hunger.... it'll be the one of the best gift India ever gotten

 

[ashok mourya]

Govt of India should construct first smart city in Kashmir for displaced Kashmiri Hindus.

These are the people who gave Kashmiri Hindus 3 choices
Kashmiri Pandits offered three choices by Radical Islamists

On Jan, 04, 1990, a local Urdu newspaper, Aftab, published a press release issued by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, asking all Pandits to leave the Valley immediately. Al Safa, another local daily repeated the warning.These warnings were followed by Kalashnikov-wielding masked Jehadis carrying out military-type marches openly. Reports of killing of Kashmiri Pandits continued to pour in. Bomb explosions and sporadic firing by militants became a daily occurrence.

Explosive and inflammatory speeches being broadcast from the public address systems of the mosques became frequent. Thousands of audio cassettes, carrying similar propaganda, were played at numerous places in the Valley, in order to instill fear into the already terrified Kashmiri Pandit community. Recalling these events, the former Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police, Shri M M Khajooria says, “The mischief of the summer of 1989 started with serving notice to the prominent members of the minority community to quit Kashmir.

The letter said, ‘We order you to leave Kashmir immediately, otherwise your children will be harmed- we are not scaring you but this land is only for Muslims, and is the land of Allah. Sikhs and Hindus cannot stay here’. The threatening note ended with a warning, ‘If you do not obey, we will start with your children. Kashmir Liberation, Zindabad.”1

These slogans, broadcast from the loud speakers of every mosque, numbering roughly 1100, exhorted the hysterical mobs to embark on Jehad.

They signaled the implementation of their intentions quite blatantly. M. L. Bhan of Khonmoh, Srinagar, a government employee, was killed on Jan 15, 1990. Baldev Raj Dutta, an operator in Lal chowk, Srinagar, was kidnapped on the same day. His dead body was found four days later, on Jan 19, 1990, at Nai Sarak, Srinagar.The body bore tell-tale marks of brutal torture.

Night of Jan, 19, 1990

The night witnessed macabre happenings, the like of which had not been witnessed by Kashmiri Pandits after the Afghan rule.Those that experienced the fear of that night are unlikely to forget it in their life time. For future generations, it will be a constant reminder of the brutality of Islamic radicals, who had chosen the timing very carefully. “Farooq Abdullah, whose government had all but seized to exist, resigned. Jagmohan arrived during the day to take charge as the Governor of the State.”2 He took over the charge of the Governor just the previous night at Jammu.He had made efforts to reach Srinagar during the previous day, but the plane had to return to Jammu from Pir Panjal Pass, due to extremely bad weather. Though curfew was imposed to restore some semblance of order, it had little effect. The mosque pulpits continued to be used to exhort people to defy curfew and join Jehad against the Pandits, while armed cadres of JKLF marched through the streets of the Valley, terrorizing them no end.

As the night fell, the microscopic community became panic-stricken when the Valley began reverberating with the war-cries of Islamists, who had stage-managed the whole event with great care; choosing its timing and the slogans to be used. A host of highly provocative, communal and threatening slogans, interspersed with martial songs, incited the Muslims to come out on the streets and break the chains of ‘slavery’. These exhortations urged the faithful to give a final push to the Kafir in order to ring in the true Islamic order. These slogans were mixed with precise and unambiguous threats to Pandits.They were presented with three choices — Ralive, Tsaliv ya Galive (convert to Islam, leave the place or prish). Tens of thousands of Kashmiri Muslims poured into the streets of the Valley, shouting ‘death to India’ and death to Kafirs.

These slogans, broadcast from the loud speakers of every mosque, numbering roughly 1100, exhorted the hysterical mobs to embark on Jehad. All male Muslims, including their children and the aged, wanted to be seen to be participating in this Jehad.Those who had organized such a show of force in the middle of a cold winter night, had only one objective; to put the fear of death into the hearts of the already frightened Pandits. In this moment of collective hysteria, gone was the facade of secular, tolerant, cultured, peaceful and educated outlook of Kashmiri Muslims, which the Indian intelligentsia and the liberal media had made them to wear for their own reasons.

Most of the Kashmiri Muslims behaved as if they did not know who the Pandits were.

Most of the Kashmiri Muslims behaved as if they did not know who the Pandits were. This frenzied mass hysteria went on till Kashmiri Pandits’ despondency turned into desperation, as the night wore itself out.

For the first time after independence of India from the British rule, Kashmiri Pandits found themselves abandoned to their fate, stranded in their own homes, encircled by rampaging mobs.Through the frenzied shouts and blood-curdling sloganeering of the assembled mobs, Pandits saw the true face of intolerant and radical Islam. It represented the complete antithesis of the over-rated ethos of Kashmiriyat that was supposed to define Kashmiri ethos.

The pusillanimous Central Government was caught napping and its agencies in the State, particularly the army and other para military forces, did not consider it necessary to intervene, in the absence of any orders. The State Government had been so extensively subverted that the skeleton staff of the administration at Srinagar (the winter capital of the State had shifted to Jammu in November 1989) decided not to confront the huge mobs. Delhi was too far away, anyway.

Hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits phoned everyone in authority at Jammu, Srinagar and Delhi, to save them from the sure catastrophe that awaited them.

Hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits phoned everyone in authority at Jammu, Srinagar and Delhi, to save them from the sure catastrophe that awaited them. The pleadings for help were incessant. But not a soldier came to their rescue. Therefore, Kashmiri Pandits found best protection in huddling together indoors, frozen with fear, praying for the night to pass. The foreboding of the impending doom was too over-powering to let them have even a wink of sleep.

The Pandits could see the writing on the wall. If they were lucky enough to see the night through, they would have to vacate the place before they met the same fate as Tikka Lal Taploo and many others. The Seventh Exodus was surely staring them in the face. By morning, it became apparent to Pandits that Kashmiri Muslims had decided to throw them out from the Valley. Broadcasting vicious Jehadi sermons and revolutionary songs, interspersed with blood curdling shouts and shrieks, threatening Kashmiri Pandits with dire consequences, became a routine ‘Mantra’ of the Muslims of the Valley, to force them to flee from Kashmir. Some of the slogans used were:

“Zalimo, O Kafiro, Kashmir harmara chod do”.

(O! Merciless, O! Kafirs leave our Kashmir)

“Kashmir mein agar rehna hai, Allah-ho-Akbar kahna hoga”

(Any one wanting to live in Kashmir will have to convert to Islam)

La Sharqia la gharbia, Islamia! Islamia!

From East to West, there will be only Islam

“Musalmano jago, Kafiro bhago”,

(O! Muslims, Arise, O! Kafirs, scoot)

“Islam hamara maqsad hai, Quran hamara dastur hai, jehad hamara Rasta hai”

(Islam is our objective, Q’uran is our constitution, Jehad is our way of our life)

“Kashmir banega Pakistan”

(Kashmir will become Pakistan)

“Kashir banawon Pakistan, Bataw varaie, Batneiw saan”

(We will turn Kashmir into Pakistan alongwith Kashmiri Pandit women, but without their men folk)

“Pakistan se kya Rishta? La Ilah-e- Illalah”

(Islam defines our relationship with Pakistan)

Dil mein rakho Allah ka khauf; Hath mein rakho Kalashnikov.

(With fear of Allah ruling your hearts, wield a Kalashnikov)

“Yahan kya chalega, Nizam-e- Mustafa”

(We want to be ruled under Shari’ah)

“People’s League ka kya paigam, Fateh, Azadi aur Islam”

(“What is the message of People’s League? Victory, Freedom and Islam.”)

Wall posters in fairly large letters, proclaiming Kashmir as ‘Islamic Republic of Kashmir’, became a common sight in the entir Valley. So were the big and prominent advertisements in local dailies, proclaiming their intent:

‘Aim of the present struggle is the supremacy of Islam in Kashmir, in all walks of life and nothing else. Any one who puts a hurdle in our way will be annihilated’.

Press release of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) published in the morning edition of Urdu Daily ‘Aftab’ of April, 01, 1990.

‘Kashmiri Pandits responsible for duress against Muslims should leave the Valley within two days’.

Head lines of Urdu Daily, Al Safa, of April, 14, 1990.

‘With Kalashnikov in one hand and Quran in the other the Mujahids would openly roam the streets singing the Tarana-e- Kashmir.’

 

[Bornubus]

The appropriate Title should be Internally Displaced Persons and their Rehabilitation is imperative to Rectify the Demography of Kashmir valley

Return of Internally displaced Persons

 

[wadi79]

So now these ethnic cleansing terrorists are on hunger strike against their victims getting some measure of justice. Wonderful!

Next in programming, we have:

• ISIS going on a hunger strike when Yazidis start returning to their homes
• Boko Haram going on hunger strike to protest against efforts to rescue kidnapped schoolgirls
• Retired Pakistani generals going on hunger strike to protest against trials of war criminals in Bangladesh

Hypocrisy runs deep in this one.

 

[indianBong]

Why is he even given a slot in news?? Scums...

 

[hussain0216]

Fight on kashmiri brothers and sisters we are with you


The pandits betrayed all kashmiris when they sided with foreign hindu india to oppress and occupy Kashmir

Live and have more children, raise the Pakistan flag high in occupied Kashmir

 

[DARIUS]

The protest is not about the return of Pandits to the valley. Apparently these hypocrites are protesting their ghettoization and want them to blend with the muslim populace in the valley and spread all over the valley uniformly instead of living seperate quarters in the settlements or the proposed smart cities. I guess the members on this thread did not focus on this point. It seems that under Indian influence even the Hurriat people have turned secular!!! That's the reason why Swami Agnivesh joined in otherwise he would not have done it.

 

[indianBong]

Fight on kashmiri brothers and sisters we are with you


The pandits betrayed all kashmiris when they sided with foreign hindu india to oppress and occupy Kashmir

Live and have more children, raise the Pakistan flag high in occupied Kashmir

looser!!! Will you ever give even a penny to bring up "more children" ???? Who will provide them food??? Middle class kashmiris can afford 4 children??

 

[Maravan]

There is no point in building houses for pandits. Even if the houses are built, they are not dare enough to go and live there. What's the point in building this houses and cities? One attack on them is enough, they will run away again.

Minorities in Myanmar,srilanka fought bravely for decades to stay in their home land. These guys simply run away from their home and asking it back now, world is for valiants only.

 

[utraash]

Let them die in hunger strike .....

 

[hussain0216]

looser!!! Will you ever give even a penny to bring up "more children" ???? Who will provide them food??? Middle class kashmiris can afford 4 children??

For the benefit and salvation of the kashmiri kaum

There are not millions of pandits, they betrayed kashmiris once and they gave up their right to be called kashmiri

Pakistan freed a big chunk of kashmir its up to the kashmiris under indian occupation to increase the Kashmiri kaum to destroy the wishes of the hindutva crowd