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[Inder Salim]

ABOUT STONE THROWING

A spontaneous demonstration formed on the American side of the checkpoint,
protesting the actions of the East and the inactions of the West: a few days
later, the crowd stoned Soviet buses driving towards the Soviet War
Memorial<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_War_Memorial_%28Tiergarten%29>,
located in the Tiergarten <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiergarten> in the
British sector. The Soviets tried to escort the buses with Armored Personnel
Carriers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_Personnel_Carrier> (APCs).
Thereafter, the Soviets were only allowed to cross via the Sandkrug Bridge
crossing point (which was the nearest to Tiergarten) and were prohibited
from bringing in APCs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie




On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Human Rights Report:
>
> The India government should avoid excessive use of force while dealing
> with demonstrators in the Kashmir valley, officials from international
> NGOs like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said this week.
> Since January this year, 33 civilians have been killed by the Indian
> security forces.
>
> At least 18 people, many of them teenagers, were allegedly killed
> during a crackdown on protests that began on 11 June 2010.
>
> But the unbated killings started long before the protests began in
> January this year. On 8 January, 16-year-old Inayat Khan became the
> first victim of this renewed military crackdown. Khan, a student had
> just passed his SSC exams with excellent marks, and was on his way to
> class in Srinagar when he was shot by troops.
>
> At his funeral, chants of ‘Inayat tere khoon se inquilab ayega’
> (Inayat, your blood will bring revolution) reverberated in the air.
> Little did the mourners know that this was to be the first of many
> such funerals in the coming months. Yet in one way, the funeral
> incantations were prescient: the killings have increased the sense of
> both helplessness and rage felt by much of the local population
> towards the security forces – seen by many as occupational forces. In
> turn, this anger has led more and more onto the streets to demand
> justice for the dead – demands backed by the commoner’s weapon of
> choice, stones.
>
> Excessive use of force on stone-pelters further aggravated the death
> count in the following months in all the parts of the Valley.
>
> During crossfire during a grenade attack in Sopore, the police shot
> civilian Parvaiz Ahmed who had sustained bullet injuriy in the abdomen
> was brought dead to the hospital on 15 January.
>
> On January 24, in Shadimarg, 55 km south of Srinagar, Mushtaq Ahmed
> Mir was used as a human shield by the army during a search operation
> against suspected rebels.
>
> On 31 January, Wamiq Farooq (13) was shot at the Gani Memorial Stadium
> in downtown Srinagar, where he was playing cricket. While chasing
> protesters, the police entered the stadium and fired a teargas shell
> that hit Farooq at close range, killing him instantly.
>
> Though the concerned assistant sub-inspector of police was
> subsequently suspended – ‘for not having taken adequate precautions
> while firing a tear smoke shell towards protesters’, according to the
> official explanation – the police force subsequently took a complete
> u-turn, dubbing Wamiq ‘a miscreant who attempted to murder a
> policeman’ in a report filed in court on 20 February.
>
> Five days later, on February 5, Zahid Farooq (16) was killed by a
> Border Security Force (BSF) patrol in Braine not far from his
> residence on the Srinagar outskirts. Though the BSF initially denied
> any role in the murder, it later suspended a BSF commandant and a
> constable Commandant R K Birdi, Constable Lakhwinder Singh for the
> teenager’s killing. Both of the accused are currently on trial.
>
> Over the last month, a total of 11 persons, at least eight of them
> children between 13 and 19 years old, were killed in shootings by the
> Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) paramilitary personnel stationed
> across the Kashmir valley, as protestors defied curfew regulations,
> held violent demonstrations and often clashed with the security
> personnel in Srinagar, Sopore and other towns which were put under
> curfew.
>
> As the pace of the murders picked up, so too did the need to downplay
> the incidents. On 13 April, Zubair Ahmed Bhat (17) – a student from
> Sopore who worked in Srinagar as a part-time labourer – was sitting on
> the banks of the Jhelum River with his friends. Suddenly, a group of
> paramilitary personnel came upon him and forced the entire group to
> jump into the river. While most could swim, Zubair struggled. Some
> boatmen passing by attempted to rescue him, but the troops fired
> teargas shells at them and Zubair drowned. But the police closed the
> file, labelling it ‘an accident’  – seemingly wilfully ignoring the
> eyewitness accounts.
>
> There have been several other cases, too, of senseless slaying,
> including troops even firing on funerals for the victims, resulting in
> the deaths of close relatives of the deceased. Indeed, for locals it
> has seemed that, over the past six months, just as they have begun to
> mourn a death, news of yet another death had reached them.
>
> On April 24, Ghulam Mohammed, father to nine children, was shot in
> Kellar, 60 km south of Srinagar by the Indian army.
>
> Further complicating the simmering tensions was news of fake
> encounters of three youth by the Indian Army.
>
> On 29 April, three youths, Muhammad Shafi Lone (23), Shehzad Ahmed
> (27) and Riyaz Ahmed (22) all residents of Nadihal Rafiabad were lured
> by counter-insurgents and Territorial Army personnel up to the Line of
> Control in Machil sector, on the pretext of employment. The following
> day, troops with 4 Rajput Rifles, a unit of the Indian Army, were said
> to have killed them in a staged encounter.
>
> The police later arrested two counter-insurgents and a member of the
> Territorial Army, all three of whom are currently in custody. For its
> part, the army quickly constituted a Court of Inquiry headed by a
> senior army officer, and the leadership suspended a major and a
> commanding officer of the 4 Rajput Rifles unit.
>
> On 11 June, 17-year-old Tufail Ahmed Mattoo of Srinagar was killed,
> according to initial reports, by a teargas shell fired by the police
> at the protestors. However, later reports said he was shot in the
> head. On 19 June, a Srinagar court has directed the state police to
> investigate this killing and submit its report by 28 June.
>
> On 20 June, as protests over the killing of Tufail Ahmed Mattoo turned
> violent, a 24-year-old carpet weaver of Srinagar, Rafiq Ahmed Bangroo,
> sustained serious head injuries and went into coma. He died on 19 June
> at the hospital. Some reports suggest that he was beaten by the CRPF
> personnel during the protests. The next day witnessed further protests
> over the death of Bangroo, as youths returning from his funeral
> attacked a CRPF post and attempted to set fire to a CRPF armoured
> vehicle. A 19-year-old relative of Bangroo, Javed Malla, was killed in
> the CRPF firing.
>
> On 25 June, Firdous Ahmad Kakroo and Shakeel Ahmad Ganai (24) were
> killed as the CRPF personnel fired at demonstrators demanding the
> bodies of two armed guerrillas killed by the security forces near the
> Sopore town, 55 km from Srinagar.
>
> Eyewitnesses had reported that the demonstrators set fire to the CRPF
> commanding officer’s vehicle and attacked a security bunker. The
> authorities claimed that the two were armed guerrillas with close
> links with Lashkar-e-Toiba and the CRPF claimed that it had fired in
> self-defence.
>
> On June 27, in Sopore, 22-year-old Bilal Ahmed Wani was killed as the
> CRPF personnel fired to quell protestors repeatedly defying curfew.
>
> On 28 June, in the south Kashmir town of Baramulla, Tauqeer Ahmed
> Rather (11) and Tajamul Ahmad Bhatt (17) were both shot dead by
> troops. Following this, the army moved into the area, and Baramulla
> has been under curfew ever since
>
> On June 29, three protestors, Ishfaq Ahmed Khanday (15) class tens
> tudent of SK Colony, Imtiyaz Ahmed Itoo (17) bakery shop worker and
> 17-year-old Shujatul Islam, class 12 student – were shot dead in
> Anantnag district. While the initial reports said they were killed in
> firing by the CRPF, later reports suggested that they had been
> initially detained and then killed.
>
> On July 6, in Srinagar, four people were killed. Abrar Ahamed Khan
> (16) was shot in Maisuma by the police.
>
> Muzafar Bhat (17), was picked up from his home in Tenpora bypass by
> the CRPF and drowed to death on July 5.
>
> In Maisuma, Fayaz Ahmed Wani (27) of Tengpora, father of two girls,
> was shot in his throat at the funreal of Muzafar Bhat.
>
> On the same day, Fancy Jan (25) from Batamaloo was shot while she was
> at the window putting up curtains in her home.
>
> On July 17, Faizan Ahmed Buhroo, a seventh class student of Guru Nanak
> School and son of a blacksmith. drowned after being beaten by Special
> Operation Group personnel of police in north Kashmir’s Varmul town in
> Baramulla.
>
> His body was retrieved from the river Jehlum at Chattipadshahi Bridge
> at around 5 pm. After the body was recovered, thousands of people took
> to streets in the town raising pro-freedom, anti-India and anti-police
> slogans.
> Carrying the body on a stretcher, people marched on the
> Srinagar-Muzzafarabad road demanding action against the SOG personnel
> Tanveer Ahmed alias Kaka, whom they blamed for the drowning of Faizan
> during clashes on Saturday in Azad Gunj area.
>
> On July 19, Fayaz Ahmad Khanday (24), a newly-wed youth who worked as
> a waiter, was shot when security forces opened fire at a funeral
> procession of Buhroo, another boy who was drowned when the security
> forces chased a stone-pelting mob on Saturday.
>
> Police sources said the body was fished out on the same day.
>
> When the funeral procession reached near the district commissioner’s
> office, the mourners turned violent, prompting the security forces to
> open fire. Of the 13 people injured in the incident, one died.
>
> “Fayaz Ahmad Khanday received a bullet in his chest and was declared
> dead. Another, critically injured, youth was shifted to hospital in
> Srinagar,” MS Nanda, medical superintendent of District Hospital,
> Baramulla, said.
>
> On July 30, two persons were killed and over 10 injured in Central
> Reserve Police Force firing in north Kashmir's Sopore district.
> Reports said, two youth were killed and six persons received bullet
> injuries when paramilitary CRPF and Railway Protection Force Personnel
> (RPF) opened fire on a group of protesters at Amargarh in Sopore after
> the Friday prayers. The two slain youth have been identified as
> Showkat Ahmad (22), son of Abdul Majeed and Mohammad Ahsan (55), both
> residents of Amargad on the outskirts of Sopore town.
>
> On July 30, Rafiq Ahmad, a resident of Pattan, was killed and at least
> 15 people were injured in Pattan, where Central Reserve Police Force
> (CRPF) and the police allegedly went berserk and opened fire inside
> the Pattan sub-district hospital, north Kashmir. An eyewitness said,
> "Rafiq was shot in the chest and he died on the spot."
>
> On the same day, an injured protester from north Kashmir's Sheeri
> Baramulla succumbed to his injuries late Friday, sources at the SKIMS
> hospital Soura said. 32-year-old Nazir Ahmad, a baker by profession,
> had received a bullet injury in chest when police and CRPF troops
> opened fire on protesters in Pattan during a demonstration against the
> killing of two civilians in Sopore.
>
> Mudasir Ahmad, a 20-year-old youth was killed and at least seven
> persons injured when paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
> troops opened fire on protesters at Naidkhai Poshwari village in
> Sumbal area of north Kashmir's Bandipora district on July 31.
>
> On July 31, Javed Ahmad Teli, a youth who was injured during clashes
> with the police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Forces in
> north Kashmir's Baramulla district succumbed to his injuries at the SK
> Institute of Medical Sciences in Soura, Srinagar.
>
> 33 CIVILIANS SO FAR
>
>
> On August 1, in Pampore Nayeem Ahmad Shah (19) and Rayees Ahmed Shah
> (24), a resident of Kadlabal were shot while protesting. Meanwhile,
> 17-year-old Afroza died of a gunshot in the neck when police and CRPF
> men fired on protesters in Namon village of south Kashmir's Khrew
> area. Relatives said she was standing by her door, witnessing the
> protests.
>
> On the same day, five youth were killed and ten others injured when
> the ammunition stored inside Khrew police station in South Kashmir
> exploded as angry protesters set ablaze the building late Sunday. One
> of the slain youth has been identified as Javed Ahmed Shiekh from Uyan
> village near Khrew.
>
> On August 2, Muhammad Yaqoob Bhat, 22, was killed when the police and
> the CRPF troops opened fire on protesters in Noman village of south
> Kashmir's Pulwama district Monday afternoon. was allegedly shot dead
> by Station House Officer (SHO) Kakpora, Niyaz Ahmad at point blank
> range this afternoon. Yaqoob was rushed by locals to the Public Health
> Centre Newa, where doctors declared him brought dead.
>
> A 20-year-old youth injured in police and Central Reserve Police Force
> (CRPF) firing at Bijbehra in south Kashmir’s Islamabad district on
> Saturday succumbed to his injuries at the SK Institute of Medical
> Sciences here at Soura early Monday morning. The slain youth has been
> identified as Tariq Ahmed Dar son of Farooq Ahmed Dar from Simthan in
> Bijbehara.
>
> Khursheed Ahmed War (22), son of Muhammad Maqbool War, resident of
> Shumnag, Kupwara, was killed while six others were injured Monday,
> when paramilitary CRPF troops and Special Operations Group (SOG)
> personnel of the police opened fire on protesters who allegedly tried
> to attack a SOG camp in Kralpora town of Kupwara district in north
> Kashmir.
>
> Aashiq Hussain Bhat, a 14-year-old boy was killed and six others were
> injured in the clashes between the protesters and the troopers in
> Kulgam on August 2. The deceased identified as, son of Ghulam Hassan
> Bhat, resident of Wachiepora area of Kulgam district.
>
> The student of ninth standard, Ashiq received bullets in his shoulder
> and thigh and died en route to Srinagar for treatment.
>
> The ambulance, which carried Ashiq was also fired upon and the driver
> was beaten up, said an eyewitness.
>
> A man named Basher Ahmed Rishi, son of Mohammed Ismael Rishi from
> Wechei area was allegedly shot dead by a local policeman. The
> 44-year-old man was then thrown into a nearby stream from the Sangam
> bridge.
>
> Another teenager Arshid Ahmed son of Mohd Abdullah of Reshipora,
> Awantipora was also killed in Sangam. Eyewitnesses said, "Arshid's
> body bore torture march and there was no injury mark caused by a sharp
> metal."
>
> August 2, Sheikh Dawood Colony, in Batmaloo is in ferment following
> the killing of a 9-year-old-boy, identified as Sameer Ahmad Rah son of
> Fayaz Ahmad Rah of the same locality, allegedly beaten to death by
> paramilitary forces.
>
> 49 killed so far
>
> On August 3, Meharj-ud-din of Qamarwari was shot at 10 am by security
> forces on Tuesday. He had received a bullet injury in his chest and
> had died on way to SMHS hospital. Four others have been injured.
>
> While the people were mourning the death of the Qamarwari youth, CRPF
> troops and policemen shot dead a teenager Anees Ahmad, son of Khurshid
> Ahmad Ganai outside his Narwara residence in Eidgah area of Old City.
>
> According to reports and eyewitnesses, youth were holding
> demonstrations in Dangerpora locality of Narwara when troops and
> police opened random fire upon them. 17-year-old Anees, who received a
> bullet in his abdomen rushed to the nearby SMHS hospital where he
> succumbed to his injuries.
>
> Anees’ body was taken in a procession to the historic Jamia Masjid.
> Thousands of people defied curfew and attended the teen’s funeral
> prayers as the Old City reverberated with pro-freedom and anti-India
> slogans. Hours later CRPF and police opened fire in Shalteng area on
> the city outskirts injuring nine people, one of them critically.
>
> The youth identified as Suhail Ahmad (16), son of Mohammad Yasin Dar
> of Zainakote was rushed to a hospital in a critical condition. Suhail
> later succumbed to his injuries.
>
> A youth was killed and fifteen others injured when CRPF troops and
> police opened indiscriminate fire on hundreds of protesters near
> Frisal area of Kulgam district this afternoon. The slain youth has
> been identified as Jehangir Ahmad, 22, son of Mohammad Yusuf Bhat of
> Chingam. Three of the critically injured persons have been rushed to
> Srinagar hospital for treatment.
>
> 25-year-old Reyaz Ahmed Bhat from Khrew in South Kashmir succumbed to
> his injuries at the SK Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura Tuesday
> afternoon. Bhat was critically injured during clashes with the police
> and the Central Reserve Police Force on Sunday in Khrew.
>
> 55 so far
>
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> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:17 PM, kulamarva balakrishna kulamarva
> balakrishna <humans.austria at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Vienna,04-08-2010
> > Inder Salimbhai,
> > I read it.Perhaps I will respond tomorrow.
> > Thank you all the same lots of love in return.
> > I had two Kasmiri roommates,one Pandit Raina
> > another friendly Muslim Partner called
> > Moinuddin engaged in Kashmiri fruit business
> > in Bombay's Crawford Market.
> > We shared food together brought
> > by Abdullah, a baharwala from my village.
> > Kulamarva Balakrishna
> >
> > On 4 August 2010 19:29, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Balakrishan ji
> >>
> >> please click to read about Kashmir's trauma generation
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/interviews/Its-the-manifestation-of-anger-among-Kashmirs-trauma-generation/articleshow/6253131.cms
> >>
> >>
> >> love
> >> is
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:13 PM, kulamarva balakrishna kulamarva
> >> balakrishna <humans.austria at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
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