[Reader-list] The updated list of killings by the firing of armedforces

[Pawan Durani]

lol......funniest post ever.
How soon we have forgotten Col. Thomas who was killed in Kashmir. and then
the statement  People in Kashmir threw stones, like angry crowds do
everywhere in the world.

lol........

What an Idea Sirrr Jee.

Pawan



On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net>wrote:

> Dear Radhika,
>
> Thank you for your observations on Khurram's posting.
>
> Well, in this case some  "protesters who claim to be peaceful,
> holding sticks, guns and resort to arson and riot" were "garlanded."
> I am referring to the ones in Jammu. You will recall, that not a
> single policeman or soldier or paramilitary personnel were killed in
> Kashmir. But two policemen did die in Jammu, and some truck drivers
> assaulted by the 'peaceful' protestors in Jammu also succmbed, I
> suppose in your opinion, "peacefully"  from their injuries. Gujjar
> huts were burnt in acts of "peaceful" arson. The crowds in Kashmir
> who were fired upon, 50 of whom were killed at the last count, did
> not bear weapons. We all saw the television pictures. They threw
> stones, like angry crowds do everywhere in the world. But they did
> not kill policemen.
>
> The government did not garland these protestors, it clamped
> indefinite curfews and shot at them to kill. One the other hand it
> did garland the protestors on the other side of the Banihal pass. it
> held some leaders under the Public Safety Act, and then released
> them. It counducted 'negotiations' with the leaders of the peaceful
> protests in Jammu and garlanded them with a sham 'accord'. All these
> prove that if you happen to belong to the right place, sport the
> right kind of name, then even if your 'peaceful' protest turns
> occasionally violent, you can still be 'garlanded' as you (in this
> case) rightly point out.
>
> After all, we live in the country whose government called its nuclear
> weapons tests in 1974, 'peaceful implosions'.
>
> In the novel, '1984' George Orwell, whom I have referred to in an
> earlier posting, wrote about how in the language perfected by
> fictional regime that he was decribing, (newspeak) 'PEACE' was 'WAR'.
>
> are you not indulging in a little modest 'newspeak' Radhika, surely,
> you can do better than that?
>
> warm regards
>
> Shuddha
>
> On 18-Sep-08, at 1:46 PM, radhikarajen at vsnl.net wrote:
> Khurram,
>
>  your post makes me wonder, whether the protesters who claim to be
> peaceful, holding sticks, guns and resort to arson and riot should be
> garlanded. ?
>
>
>
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