[Reader-list] INDIAN GOVT. CRACKSDOWN BEFORE THE PROPOSED JULY 13 MARCH

[Junaid]

INDIAN GOVT. CRACKSDOWN BEFORE THE PROPOSED JULY 13 MARCH

Media reports from Kashmir suggest that Indian government is
cracking-down heavily on Kashmiris to prevent people from joining a
peaceful rally scheduled for today. The planed rally dubbed as "Lal
Chowk Chalo" was given by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and many other
pro-freedom leaders.

July 13 is observed each year as a Martyrs Day because on July 13,
1931 the Dogra monarch ordered his troops to open fire on hundreds of
unarned Kashmiri protestors killing dozens of them. The July 13 and
other related events became part of the Kashmiri national history as
one of the first pan-Kashmir national struggle for justice and against
discrimination based of religion.

For many years National Conference appropriated this national event
and made it part of their  exclusive history, forgetting that when the
uprising took place in 1931 National Conference was not even born.
There was Muslim Conference at that time, from which National
Conference broke away in 1939. Just after August 1947 when
communalists in Jammu (including Jana Sangh and Praja Parishad) went
on a mass slaughter campaign against the region's Muslims--effectively
killing and pushing out half-a million Muslims out of the Jammu
region, many leaders and activists of Muslim Conference were executed
or sent into exile. Since then National Conference (which saw itself
as Kashmir itself, and not just as a group) made July 13 as one of its
major achievements.

July 13 in Kashmir is a holiday and usually NC holds an event at
Naqshbadi Sahab where many of the people killed on July 13 are buried.
But they never let anyone else do anything there, except for providing
space to pro-India parties like PDP and Congress to say a few words.

When pro-freedom leaders declared July 13 as a National Day for
Kashmir and planned a peaceful rally to the political heart of
Srinagar the Lal Chowk--Red Square, Indian government and their local
minions--the NC-led self-imposed government of Kashmir--decided to
crack down upon people. Not only were hundreds of youth picked up from
many Kashmiri towns and cities and subjected to threat, torture and
incarceration, but most of the pro-freedom leaders were sent to jail.
Some leaders have been imprisoned on charges as ridiculous as
"hate-speech" given five years back!

Kashmir has become a calamity and a zone where India affords itself
total impunity through military force and its international clout. The
proven rape and murder of the two women from Shopian are suddenly
given unbelievable twists by Indian nationalist press and journalist.
The Hindu's correspondent, Praveen Swami, who is widely discredited in
Kashmir, but believed like a god in India, and whose stories it seems
come neatly written from IB's Kashmir desk, suddenly found exciting
news over the issue. Keeping his Extreme Right Wolf in a
Self-Righteous Left-Wing Sheep garb image in Kashmir intact, he took
no time to trounce upon the totally wrong story that Jan Commision has
cast doubt on the family-members of the two victims (which in anycase
was not in the commission's terms of reference). While Justice Jan has
openly stated that the annexure where the family is indicted was
drafted by Police and handed over to him and was just put there on
file, and not even as record, and defintely not part of any
suggestions, and has no impact on the case, Swami leapt up in joy and
spread the story that Jan had indicted the family. It is funny that no
Indian is willing to believe that their murderous troops in Kashmir
can rape and murder innocents, and some even asked members on the
readerlist to hang their heads in shame for trying to speak the truth.

The Greeeat Democracy's forces are stamping out the last resistance to
its criminal rule in Kashmir. Its Big Media is marching with them
alongside shoulder to shoulder spewing lies and breeding hate. The
literate Indians who are interested in Kashmir gulp down each lie that
comes their way and truly believe them like articles of religious
faith.

But as Faiz said,

"Why complain? Holding up our sorrows as banners,
new lovers will emerge
from the lanes where we were killed
and embark, in caravans, on those highways of desire.
It’s because of them that we shortened the distances of sorrow,
it’s because of them that we went out to make the world our own,
we who were murdered in the darkest lanes."

Junaid