[Reader-list] The Real Face of Delhi - Pat Jammu, Kill Kashmir - by Ghulam Nabi Khayal

[Kashmir Affairs]

The real face of Delhi



















Pat Jammu, Kill Kashmir

THOUGHTFUL THOUGHT BY GHULAM NABI KHAYAL

It
is in Jammu, that every one has seen with open eyes how  the  Indian
forces treated violent agitators as blue eyed boys whereas they were
killed in scores in the streets of Kashmir valley. The number of
civilians shot dead by the killer troopers across the Valley and also
those injured out of barbaric beatings and thrashing are a gory witness
to the bitter fact that Delhi has once again adopted double standards
with regard to this suppressed Himalayan region. 
       It was in
Jammu where anti-Muslim rowdy protesters of India’s fanatic outfits
like BJP, Bajrang Dal, VHP, Shiv Sena and the like not only defied
curfew with impunity and total violence but also indulged in worst type
of hooliganism when they torched residential localities of the Muslims,
burnt their mosques, attacked their marriage parties and asked them to
leave Jammu which they thought still belonged to Gulab Singh Hari
Singh. 
       These vagabonds went to the extent of blockade of
Srinagar-Jammu highway so that eight million Kashmiri Muslims are
starved to death with their forced closure of this only but a cursed
supply line. Brandishing swords, tridents, petrol bombs and even
country made pistols they held the entire Jammu as hostage for about
two months but the law enforcing machinery remained mute spectator to
this vandalism and lawlessness. Even those troopers who were attacked
and beaten to pulp by rioters did not react and behaved as hopelessly
as one would not imagine particularly in the background of their
contrary way of dealing with people in Kashmir. 
       There are
confirmed reports that curfew passes were issued to rioters and most of
the peace loving citizens in Jammu were denied this facility.
Unconfirmed reports, having come in from various reliable  sources in
Jammu, have made this startling revelation that forces in Jammu were
issued weapons with empty magazines and without  ammunition. It was in
view of this deplorable bias of the guardians of law and order in
favour of violent agitators of Jammu that one person was made to be
eulogised as a martyr. The person in question had in fact taken a heavy
loan from a bank and was not in a position to pay it back. He was
therefore left with no option but to end his life and the Jammu rioters
claimed that he was shot dead by the police. A fraudulent claim exposed
by Dr Farooq Abdullah  publicly. 
       Two senior officers of the
State government are reportedly responsible for ordering the troopers
not to harm the Jammu agitators even if they cause damage to the public
property. Having been let loose to play havoc with everything coming in
their way, the rioters therefore felt comfortable to set fire to a
police station, mosques and attack Muslims murderously  in Rajouri,
Poonch and Kishtwar. The police and the CRPF watched this rape of
humanity with a mischievous smile on their lips. 
 And it is here
in Kashmir, that peaceful and unarmed people while trying to find out
an alternate way to have medicines for their patients, milk for
children and food for themselves, are treated as animals and killed in
scores with impunity. 
 We may ask: how come that only a few
persons were killed in the violent-agitation in Jammu which continued
for about two months with unprecedented hooliganism. But here in
Kashmir; more than 30 innocent civilians were shot dead only in two
days, 11,12 August, by the Indian troopers. Even ambulances carrying
dead bodies were not spared by the trigger-happy forces. Besides this
massacre, the army and paramilitary forces set ablaze several houses,
beat up   inmates and went to the extent of  brutality that  their own
bamboo sticks were seen breaking into pieces while beating Muslim youth
like barbarians. Live coverage of this brutality was repeatedly shown
by local as well as embedded Indian private TV channels. 
 How and
why was the Hurriyat leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz martyred? Why he was not
stopped on way to Muzaffarabad and taken into custody en
route?          
 This carnage has taken a new turn, of course, not
to console sufferers in any way, that Inspector general of police of
Kashmir zone, S M Sahai has openly blamed army and CRPF saying, “those
killed (Tuesday) had actually fallen to the bullets of army and CRPF.”
He added that even a sub divisional police officer and special police
officer were also wounded in this firing. 
 People of Kashmir, the
Muslims in particular, are broadmindedly of a secular character. They
have withstood onslaughts from time to time at the hands of usurpers of
their basic rights and peaceful resolution of problems but have never 
taken to communlise the situation even when extremist Hindus in India
have inflicted deep wounds on their ethos and psyche.  
 In this
context, they had almost forgotten how Jammu has been communally and
fanatically behaving with them during the last 60 years and had
forgiven them for their sins. 
 Kashmiris had forgotten how Gulab
Singh would skin alive his Muslim subjects in Kashmir for their making
genuine demands about a possible improvement in their miserable living.

 People of Kashmir didn’t want to recall the bloody episode when
Dogra soldiers pumped bullets into frail bodies of Kashmiris outside
Central Jail in Srinagar 0n 13 July 1931 killing 23 citizens on spot. 
 They
had forgotten how about 500,000 Jammu Muslims were butchered by Dogra
killers and forces of Hari Singh in November 1947 when they were herded
out for journey through  a train to Pakistan which never came. Instead,
death came to them in a frightful way. 
 They had also forgotten
that it was Prem Nath Dogra’s Jana Sangh which instigated an agitation
against Kashmir government forcing Delhi to depose and arrest Prime
Minister Sheikh Abdullah and his colleagues. 
 Since then, Jammu has been proving a political liability for Kashmir and its safe and secure political future. 
 Enough
is enough. It is high time that a highly communalised Jammu finds its
own way of existence of course outside the domain of Kashmir Valley.
This may also culminate in a viable solution of a vexed Kashmir dispute
the settlement of which is always hindered by Jammu on the pretext of
having internal autonomy for it prior to a final decision taken about
Kashmir tangle. 
 What Jammu is for Muslims, was again demonstrated
on 9 August when hardliner elements of Jammu did not allow pro-India
loyalists to participate in the meeting on Amar Nath row and
shamelessly, they sat outside for hours like beggars at some shrine. 
 Let
people of Kashmir not be swayed by hypocritical slogans raised in
Kashmir in favour of so called unity of the State. This is a day-dream
and most of the politicians have been dreaming it to carry on with
their political gimmickry at the cost of eight million Kashmiri
Muslims. 
 
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