WikiLeaks Endorse Hindu Terrorism
By Sajjad Shaukat
While describing win-win relationship with India, during his famous trip to India, Obamas main focus was Indo-US united front against terrorism, which relates to the Islamic militancy in the region, but he totally neglected Hindu terrorism which now has also been endorsed by the revelations of the WikiLeaks.
In this connection, in one of its diplomatic cables, WikiLeaks has indicated
involvement of top Indian Army leadership in engaging Hindu extremist militants to carry out certain terror operations to keep Indian Muslims on the back foot and to keep pressure on the neighbouring Pakistans army and intelligence agencies, particularly the Inter-services Intelligence Agency, while the cable refused to confirm any involvement of ISI in any terror incident across India.
Disclosure of another cable confirmed that there was a nexus of top Indian army officials and extremist Hindu outfits, suggesting that an Indian Police officer, a counter terror specialist with the name of Hemant Karkare had exposed this nexus to some extent when he arrested a serving Colonel of Indian Army, Lt. Colonel Purohit for blazing a Pakistan bound train (Samjhota Express).
The cable further disclosed that Hemant Karkare held a secret meeting with a senior US diplomat at New Delhi and briefed him about the gravity and the growing depth of the nexus between top Indian army leadership and the militant Hindu fanatic groups. Karkare sought the security for him and his family from the said American diplomat as he feared that the army and establishment would eliminate him as intended to move further to expose the network. In addition, he had briefed the said US diplomat that a
former Commander in Chief of the Central Command of the Indian army, Lt. General P.N Hoon was heading the militancy wing of the Hindu extremists and was getting full tactical, logistic and financial support from senior army officers. The day, Karkare was eliminated in a pre-planned ambush during the Mumbai attacks, a cable sent to the US read: we have lost an important link and a vital evidence.
Another cable sent to Washington termed Hindutva (Hindu Nationalism) brotherhood in general and Shiv Sena in particular, as ticking time bombs with regard to militancy and terrorism. In the cable, it was suggested that fund raisers like Hindu Students Council of America etc. should be banned to raise funds as they were generating funds for the Hindu militant outfits under the garb of charity.
Another file dubs
Hindutva Brotherhood as a far bigger threat to regional and global peace that Taliban, Al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the later three were declared as peanuts, if equated with Hindutva Brotherhood and Sangh Parivaar and Washington was urged to take up the issue with New Delhi.
However, there is no doubt that under the
mask of secularism, Hindu terrorism prevails in every field at the cost of other minorities. It is
even supported by Indian defence forces clandestinely. This fact could be judged from the recent past, when in the house of Bajrang Dal fundamentalists in Nanded, a bomb went off. The investigations proved that the militants belonging to the Bajrang Dal were found in the bomb-making and attack on a mosque in Parbhani in 2003. Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra had arrested Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit along with other army officials, indicating that they were helping in training the Hindu terrorists, providing them with the military-grade explosive RDX, used in the Malegaon bombings and terrorist attacks in other Indian cities. ATS further disclosed that
Lt. Col. Purohit confessed that in 2007, he was involved in bombing of Samjhota express, which brunt alive 69 Pakistanis. Leaders of the Indian extremist parties, Shiv Sena, BJP, VHP and RSS has still been pressurising the Congress regime to release the culprits.
Before these revelations about Hindu terrorism, Indian government has been accusing the Islamic organizations in contact with Pakistani or Bangladeshi intelligence agencies in carrying out bomb blasts in Malegaon and other Indian places.
As regard Hindu terrorism, BBC indicated on November 21, 2008 that a new phrase has entered the sometimes cliche-riddled Indian press: Hindu terrorism, calling it the latest addition to the media lexicon.
Nevertheless,
India which claims to be a secular state, has broken all the records of violence, genocide and massacre perpetrated on various ethnic and religious groups, entailing the community of its own lower castes. These atrocities and injustices display that Hindu terrorism is on rise.
It is notable that historical background and religious beliefs which have formed the habits and national character of Hindus are quite different from the other ethnic and religious communities.
Indians still have a strong belief in the superiority of their race. Indian Hindus are followers of Chanakya (Say some thing else and do some thing else). These facts have been verified by the misdeeds of Hindu fundamentalist parties like the BJP, RSS, VHP, Shiv Sina and Bajrang Dal which have missed no opportunity to communalise national politics of India even under the Congress rule. With the backing of Indian officials, these parties have intensified
anti-Christian and anti-Muslim bloodshed in the last decade coupled with the dissemination of Hindutva.
Besides previous
genocide of Muslims and
destruction of the Babri Mosque, more than 2500 Muslims were
massacred in 2002 in the BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujarat. Regarding that massive genocide, both Human Rights Watch in 2002 and Amnesty International in 2003 charged the Gujarat state administration for involvement in a massive cover-up of the states role in that massacre and pointed out numerous police officials�specifically ministers, high officials and leaders of the VHP, BJP and Bajrang Dal as participants.
On September 13, 2008, the communal riots in Uttar Pradesh killed more than 200 Muslims. In one of the most tragic incidents in Assam,
Hindu extremists burnt alive six members of a Muslim family. Violence has continued against the Muslims from time to time. Similarly, assaults on Christians and their property have been executed by the Hindu mobs in Orissa, Assam, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. In this respect,
at least 60 Christians have been assassinated in the recent past by Hindu extremists in the state of Orissa. Other minorities of India are also target of Hindu terrorism.
In Maharashtra, non-Hindu communities have lived in constant fear and awe since the advent of the fundamentalist party,
Shiv Sena whose Chief Bal Thackeray has organised army of hoodlums to beat up any religious minority, openly directing the Hindu terrorists to loot and stone any of their shop or house. Silence of the subsequent governments on every challenge of Shiv Sena and lack of serious action against Thackerays vandalism have clearly verified the support of Indian high officialis behind Hindu terrorism.
Under the cover of democracy and secularism, Indian subsequent regimes dominated by politicians from the Hindi heartland�Hindutva have been using brutal force ruthlessly against any move to
free Assam, Kashmir, Khalistan, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu and Tripura where
wars of independence are alive in one or the other form.
Particularly, in the Indian-held Kashmir, since 1947, Indian forces have intermittently been employing all the possible techniques of military terrorism such as curfews, crackdowns, sieges, massacre, targeted killings etc. to maintain their alien rule. However, Indian brutalities keep on going against the current phase of Kashmiri uprising which began on August 12, 2008. In the last two years, more than
3000 unmarked graves of the unidentified bodies were uncovered in villages of Indian-held Kashmir. Sources have suggested that these graves include bodies of extrajudicial executions committed by the Indian military and paramilitary forces. European Parliament strongly condemned India regarding human rights violations in the occupied Kashmir.
The leakage of the diplomatic cables of the WikiLeaks has also indicated Indian Army in gross Human rights violations in Indian held Kashmir. In this respect, Lt. Gen HS Panag, the then GOC-in-Chief of the Northern Command of the Indian Army was equated with General Milosevic of Bosnia with regard to butchering the Muslims in the Indian through war crimes. The related cable urged Washington to secretly divert UN attention towards the
genocide of innocent civilians in the Indian occupied Kashmir on the hands of Indian Army and also suggested that the US should avoid holding any joint drill with Indian army until it stops inhuman activities in Kashmir. The cable termed one Lt. Col. AK Mathur as Devils Advocate at Srinagar.
Nonetheless, besides previous evidence in this context, the disclosures of the WikiLeaks also endorse Hindu terrorism.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email:
sajjad_logic@yahoo.com
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