[Reader-list] Two Sad incidents

[Pawan Durani]

I am amazed at the ' cleverness ' of Junaid. and how he has tried to
justify the stone pelting mob .

He has exact idea of the the "liberals' among this list and what the
so called 'liberals' like to read.

Very cleverly he has put blame on Indian State , justified stone
peltinng and to top it all blamed a 'perceived' Hindu supporting BJP ,
a political party,

Well done Junaid, there are people in this list who would fall for
your game..... as they did previously....as most of those who would
fall for your trap are those whose ideology is already dead world over
and they have a history of supporting separatist movement all across
India ...overtly or covertly...

Pawan





On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Junaid <justjunaid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Shuddha,
>
> I agree with you completely that the death of infant Irfan due to a
> scuffle between parents and the protestors in Baramulla is an
> inexcusable act. Those who are responsible must be brought to justice,
> and they deserve severe punishment. This is not the only incident that
> has made me very skeptical of letting young men take independent
> control over the Kashmiri struggle. In 2008, I witnessed a Kashmiri
> bureaucrat and his family humiliated and slapped by protestors when
> their car passed through protesting youth. The bureaucrat kept
> pleading that they were running from Jammu where they had been
> attacked by protestors. It was only after intervention by some mosque
> elders that they were let through. At many places it's sheer "rage" as
> you pointed out, and "frustration and machismo" as Sonia mentioned,
> instead of a clear political program that drives these spontaneous
> protests. But it think it has another reasons too.
>
> These protests largely started after the Indian government came down
> heavily on peaceful protests in 2008. Though there were stone-pelting
> incidents before but they were neither consistent nor so widespread.
> From August to December 2008 the government put Kashmir under weeks
> and weeks of intense curfews and arrested hundreds of political
> activists and commoners. This crippling of life--and stiffling of
> protests--was coupled with the election drama. The entire election
> took place under curfew, as they happened district by district. Indian
> government was conducting elections for Kashmiri people against
> Kashmiri people, many people would say. But in any case the scope for
> any sort of peaceful resistance was obliterated by the Indian
> crackdown. It is in this context that stone-pelting became a mode of
> expressing dissent. I don't agree with this mode, because it lacks
> clarity and has a potential to go totally wrong, as Irfan's death has
> just showed. It creates anger among Kashmiris themselves. Many
> middle-class Kashmiris (quite typically!) have become wary of it, they
> think of it as an inconvenience in their daily lives. It also lends
> itself to great manipulation and sabotage. Last year a few masked
> stone-pelter came out of nowhere in Anantnag on a "normal" day and
> started pelting stones on private cars. Local people got together and
> rounded them up, and it was found out that they were carrying BJP
> cards (yes, the BJP has a 'presence' there!). They were handed over to
> the police, but were released immediately, and no charges were filed.
> "Policemen in civvies" has become a common phenomenon during these
> protests. In fact only a couple of days back JK Armed Police men beat
> a bunch of "Policemen in civvies' to pulp. It is not known why it
> happened or what the policemen-in-civvies were doing.
>
> Junaid
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