[Reader-list] On JKLF and Indian Airforce Personnel

[Pawan Durani]

And I can understand when a killer [ Bitta karate ] of 40 kashmiri pandits
come out of jail, people in Kashmir welcome him with garlands and distribute
sweet.

Where does that imply bearing the individual pain collectively go ?

All in the name of Supreme.

Pawan



On 14 Sep 2007 08:15:33 -0000, junaid <justjunaid at rediffmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> The Indian state has entered the bodies of Pawan Duranis and Aditya Kauls
> imperceptibly. When Mr. Durani or Mr. Kaul speaks, it is the voice of state,
> as the sole provider of values, which comes out. The State says "My violence
> is my right, and my right alone, but anyone who challenges this right, that
> is my sovereignty, she/he/they should be deemed criminal, fit only to be
> eliminated through the laws that I make."
>
> So Mr. Durani, who has unconsciously become the spokesman of the state,
> and regurgitates its litanies, would be confounded if someone punctures his
> seemingly coherent discourse by refusing to accept the legitimacy of the
> state. He will label anti-national and unpatriotic people who don't accept
> the state's "natural" logic.
>
> When Kashmiris started an armed struggle against Indian state, its main
> actors, the militants were not separate from, what are mistakenly called,
> civilians. No one is innocent in Kashmir, militants, "civilians", Indian
> troops or officials, Pandits. They have positions on political issues.
>
> When a Kashmiri is killed by Indian troops, instead of seeking justice
> from Indian state, people come together to forge a solidarity, they bear
> individual pain collectively. Take the example of Pathribal killings when
> the police fired on Kashmiris protesting fake killings of five Kashmiris,
> and seven more died. Why would Kashmiris allow such a thing to happen to
> themselves?
>
> The responsibility for the acts of militants, or armed Kashmiris, was
> shared equally by the Kashmiri society. It was quite evident in the way
> Kashmiris liberally funded the movement (many people gave away part of their
> salaries, month after month, and from the returns from their trade),
> participated in popular protests on the call from militants, gave shelter
> and food to militants, protested in thousands in funerals for militants, and
> suffered individual and collective brutalities at the hands of Indian army.
> Militants were seen as the soldiers of the Kashmiri nation, their freedom
> fighters, not brigands or criminals.
>
> Kashmiris never participated in funerals for killed Indian soldiers. Like
> the way people in India mourned the death of Indian soldiers. Kashmiris have
> always seen Indian forces as occupation troops. Occupation: unlawful,
> illegitimate control of territories whose residents don't endorse or
> authorize that control. And by popularly and violently opposing Indian rule
> in Kashmir, expressed in the slogans and motifs of the movement, a vast
> majority of Kashmiris declared their position.
>
> Now the incident referred to here: The Indian airmen, armed or unarmed,
> were part of the Indian state's most visible and brutal aspect, the Indian
> defense. Logically, in war the enemy's soldiers, armed or unarmed, are
> legitimate targets. That is what they became. If Yasin Malik is hanged, then
> those thousands of Indian soldiers who killed thousands of militants should
> be hanged too. If he is forced to say sorry to India, then Indian soldiers
> should say sorry to Kashmir.
>
> Kashmir's freedom movement is not a series of individual crimes. As Indian
> states atrocities and brutalities are not acts of individual crimes by
> soldiers. They are political acts. In Kashmir they are seen as such.
>
> Personally I am against wars; but at the same time, I am against the
> appropriation of the right to violence by the state; and I especially
> despise this appropriation in occupied territories.
>
> Junaid
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