[Reader-list] Oranges won't work anymore

[Pawan Durani]

Murtazas figures seem to be as good as his "impartial" understanding of
Kashmir. What a figure ? 1,00,000 KP's migrated out of Kashmir !
I wonder how many marks Murtaza got in mathematics , unless he was very good
only at divisions.

Pawan

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Kashmir Affairs <kashaffairs at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Wonderful. Indian 'democracy' has only one policy prescription in Kashmir -
> whole scale murder. A friend who has been at very top post in IB recently
> wrote back to me that 'those who don't want to live in India should
> migrate'. It seems had they not attacked the LoC March whole Kashmir would
> have gone to the otherside. Not a bad proposition in my view - life is more
> precious than land.
> In 1947 - quarter a million were massacred in Jammu and two million forced
> to migrate.
> In 1990 - 100,000 Pandits had to leave and similar number of Kashmiri
> Muslims from villages along the LoC migrated to Muzzaffarabad.
> In 2008 - thousands of Muslim families have been forced to leave Jammu and
> adjoining Hindu majority areas.
> - 'Democracy' is just getting better. And what a wonderful way of
> scapegoating - anti-nationls, terrorists.
> Welcome to Rene Gerrard's world - Mimesis and Violence.
>
> Murtaza Shibli
> www.kashmiraffairs.org
>
>
> --- On Sun, 24/8/08, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Oranges won't work anymore
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Sunday, 24 August, 2008, 7:16 PM
>
>  *Oranges won't work anymore*
>
> By Joginder Singh, Ex-Director CBI
>
>
>  The CRPF Inspector-General was transferred from Srinagar on August 13
> after
> an uproar in the Kashmir Valley, led by terrorists and their supporters,
> who
> alleged excesses by the Central paramilitary force. He was also denied the
> President's police medal for fear of controversy and wider protests. There
> is nothing new in this kind of approach as the decision-makers are far
> removed from reality. Meanwhile, it is the police and the security forces
> that continue to face life-and-death situations, standing between chaos and
> order.
>
>  In 1990s, the then Governor of Jammu & Kashmir lost his job for taking a
> tough stand against anti-nationalist elements. That did not help the
> situation, nor will the recent transfer of the CRPF Inspector-General
> restore peace. On the contrary, it will embolden separatists and terrorists
> who will now think that they can get away with anything.
>
>  Wherever the Government of the day has pursued the policy of appeasement
> and has compromised on basic values, it has invited trouble. Terrorism in
> the Valley flourishes in direct proportion to the political will to deal
> with the same. It commenced with the kidnapping of Ms Mehbooba Mufti, the
> daughter of Mufti Mohammed Sayed, former Home Minister, who is now a former
> Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir. To secure her release, the then
> Government had freed five dreaded terrorists. This emboldened the
> separatists and the terrorists, and was enough to start a series of chain
> reactions in the Valley from 1988 onwards. I am an eyewitness to these
> events as I was the InspectorGeneral of the CRPF in Srinagar at the time.
>
>  The Government's tendency to sweep such incidents under the carpet has
> today resulted in terrorists openly dictating terms to the people;
> enforcing
> the *purdah* system for women, closing down beauty parlours and cinema
> houses, etc. The Prime Minister, like many before him, gave a laudable
> speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence day this year as
> he
> appealed to the masses to shun communalism.
>
>  But unfortunately, the whole agitation in the Kashmir Valley is based on a
> communal ideology. The truth is, communalism in one community generates
> communalism in others. Otherwise, how could hordes of people led by
> terrorists start a rally with the declared aim of crossing the LoC into
> Muzaffarabad? The Government should have responded that those who cross the
> LoC illegally will not be allowed back into the country.
>
>  A series of misconceived policies, or the so-called people-to-people
> contact, have brought about this situation. Otherwise, how could a
> mainstream political party demand that Pakistani currency be declared legal
> tender in Jammu & Kashmir? It would be wrong to say that
> 'transferring' 97
> acres of forest land to the Sri Amarnath Shrine Board has led to the
> present
> crisis. The separatists and terrorists have been going all-out to create
> disturbances and problems as per the following report of the Jammu &
> Kashmir
> Government:
>
>  "A total of 42,147 people, including 20,647 militants and 5,024 security
> personnel were killed in the State between January 1990 and the middle of
> February 2007... Violence left 33,885 people, including 12,124 security
> personnel and 21,659 civilians injured during the same period in the
> State... 11,221 civilians were killed by militants and another 1,678 lost
> their lives in grenade and Improvised Explosive Device explosions, while
> 173
> civilians were killed when they were caught in clashes between militants. A
> total of 3,404 civilians were killed in cross-firing incidents between
> security forces and militants... The highest number of 1,438 civilians were
> killed in 1996, the year elections were held after a gap of seven year,
> while the highest number of 3,602 Army and other paramilitary personnel
> lost
> their lives fighting militants in the same year. Jammu and Kashmir Police
> lost 537 personnel since January 1990. As many as 438 Special Police
> Officers engaged by the police in counter-insurgency operations were
> killed.
> 127 Village Defence Committee members were killed fighting militants in the
> State. 613 security personnel were killed in a single year in 2001, which
> was again the highest."
>
>  Now, the question arises as to what can be done. Also whether what is
> being
> done is sufficient. In 1990, the midnight protests were sparked by the call
> given by 1,100 mosques, which had installed loudspeakers to call the
> faithful to prayer. Loudspeakers in Kashmir's mosques, then as now, are
> used
> to give calls for anti-national activities, asking the people to gather in
> the streets or at a particular spot to stage demonstrations. The then
> Governor had ordered the disconnection of these loudspeakers, which itself
> led to protests.
>
>  It is a fact that many terrorists take shelter in places of worship.
> During
> my recent visit to the US I was told that the police had, with the
> co-operation of the Muslim community and their religious leaders, installed
> CCTV cameras in mosques to monitor any criminal activity. In a situation
> like that which prevails in the Kashmir Valley, which has been highly
> communalised, it is impossible to get any kind of evidence to prove
> anti-national activities as no witness will be willing to come forth to
> depose. Mrs Margaret Thatcher used to say publicity is the oxygen of
> terrorism. Any publicity which eulogises terrorism should be discouraged,
> if
> not completely banned.
>
>  Terrorist leaders, their supporters and sympathisers should be immobilised
> by using the present laws and detained outside Jammu & Kashmir. The
> Government has announced financial assistance for the families of
> terrorists
> on the grounds that it is not their fault if the only earning member of
> their family becomes a militant. This approach is fraught with danger and
> the sooner it is given up the better. It should not become a scheme to help
> traitors.
>
>  Many so-called intellectuals talk about a referendum in the Valley. With
> Pakistan having hijacked the anti-India movement, any referendum or
> election
> will be irrelevant at this point of time. The first priority is to drive
> the
> Pakistani terrorists out of the Valley and send them to the country of
> their
> origin. The Government should stop all dialogue with these militants who
> are
> nothing more than agents of Pakistan. Only a tough approach will send the
> right signal that the Government means business.
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