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

[radhikarajen at vsnl.net]

Dear Shuddha,

   the entire issue of "giving" land for yatris and "taking it back was a ploy by the then CM of Kashmir state, the motive is clear for all to see. Appeasement to hindus in rest of India, by the feel of the sentiment that oldest party is facilitating the hindus and the yathra. The benefits would have been immense to Congress to boast about "giving" lands to yathris. 

 In actual practise, this land would have gone to hangers on of the madam, to construct the yathrinivas, swindle the yathris of the exorbitant room rents. What every citizen has overlooked is the fact that for decades the kashimri economy which wholly depends on toursim, devotional yathra, has been enabled by the kasmiri citizens, mostly muslims because they are the citizens of that landscape.

  Congress which for the first time held reins of governance thanks to a coalition with hizb faction of soft face, Mehbooba mufti and her father did not expect the capablity of mehbooba to use this very tool to alienate the votes in Kashmir away from Congress. Gulam, who was cozily in Delhi all these years with Rajyasabha membership is far removed from ground reality.  

 As to garlands to those in jammu, you have a lopsided opinion, which I respect, but lives were lost on emotive issue of this land and its "give " and take" by suicides, the truckdrivers were beaten up by muftis' goons and mehboobas henchmen, that I have no hesitation to confirm, as per my sources. The issue was to highlight the "economic blockade to muslims of Kashmir to make an emotional issue that hits hard. None has been garlanded by the police or the governance but the governor, retired , tired dud scud, is unfit to be there, but thanks to loyalty and service to the first family he is there to carry forward the inhuman exercise of divide and rule for Sonia, the mafiosi.

Regards.

----- Original Message -----
From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net>
Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008 1:55 am
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] The updated list of killings by the firing ofarmedforces
To: radhikarajen at vsnl.net
Cc: khurramparvez at yahoo.com, SARAI <reader-list at sarai.net>

> 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. ?
> 
> 
> 
>