[Reader-list] Terrorist Yasin Malik at the India Today Conclave

[OISHIK SIRCAR]

Arre, if Modi can be invited to speak at the Conclave to spew words of
wisdom on how to use hatred to play vote bank politics.. why can't Yasin?

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *It wouldn't be the first or the last time in the **history of mankind
> that
> a killer is freed or elevated to a position which in all likelihood he
> doesn't
> deserve. The crowd has sometimes chosen to free Barbaras and instead
> crucify
> Jesus.It has been us the"Ashraf-ul-makhlooq" who chose to stone Hallaj to
> death.
>
> So when India Today decided to invite Yasin Malik as a speaker in one of
> their sessions titled" Youth Forum - If I Could Change The World" they
> were
> only following what fellow human beings in done in the past. What
> however shocked me was this description (
> http://conclave.digitaltoday.in/2008/speakersprofile.html#mailik) wherein
> they mentioned nothing of his pending TADA cases some indeed as shocking
> as
> kidnapping the then
> Union Home Minister's daughter (which he has himself
> admitted to,read here, *
> *http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/484093.cms<
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/484093.cms%C2%A0>
> **   *
> *or killing 4 unarmed air-force officials. When someone recently asked him
> about the killings of 4 unarmed air-force officers who were waiting to
> board
> a bus, he blurted almost nonchalantly" The IAF personnel were
> not innocent victims. They were the agents of the 'enemy'.
> (read here, http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/13blood1.htm )
> *
> *So was it fair to kill these personnel Mr.Malik? The answer in all
> likelihood meant YES.
>
> **Read the complete post and see the the video where Yasin accepts being
> complicit in killings and
> kidnappings :-
>
> *http://kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com/
>
>
> *Best Regards*
> **
> *On behalf of Roots In Kashmir <http://www.rootsinkashmir.org/>*
> **
> *Aditya Raj Kaul*
> *New Delhi*
>
> *Campaign Video -
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI0STMGgA4g&feature=related
> *
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