[Reader-list] More on little kashmiri boys

[Pawan Durani]

For those who do not understand Kashmiri , Junaid has written that the
10 day old Irfan was killed by "Baccha Khor".

The rough translation of that is "Naughty Boy".

So , the killers have become naughty boys...

God bless the society .....

Pawan



On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Junaid <justjunaid at gmail.com> wrote:
> A brief addition to our little conversation:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbS_Qu0Re8g
>
> Junaid
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Junaid <justjunaid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sonia,
>>
>> Thanks for sending in Ahmed Ali Fayaz's interesting report on "Bacha
>> Khour" gang. It surely does complicate our understanding of how
>> "stone-pelters" have  developed multiple connections. At 12 and 13
>> years' of age these hardened criminals seem to be quite savvy and
>> entrepreneurial, enough to play around with the politicians, the
>> police, the separatists, and even the CM! These ruffians with very
>> terrifying names: Meena Kumari, Itchguard, the lowest of the urchins,
>> seem to have suddenly become a pain for all the above grandees, but
>> above all to the "silent majority," the "99 percent of the
>> population--which according to the article is constituted by an
>> "influential businessmen", " a "trader" and the "Beopar Mandal
>> president"--who is also a "Jammati-Islami rakun."
>>
>> It is surprising that the silent majority of old town Baramulla was on
>> the streets not too long ago. In the protests against Amarnath land
>> grab, old town Baramulla's silent majority was the first one to come
>> out to protest. The first major rally started from there. More than
>> 60000 people from Old Town and adjoining villages came out for the
>> "Muzzafarabad Chalo" march. It was people from this place who were
>> killed, around 5 of them, when Indian troops fired at the rally in
>> Sangrama, which also killed Hurriyat leader Sheikh Aziz. Overall,
>> since 2008 around 20 people have been killed in the town by the CRPF,
>> and one by the "bacha khour" stone-pelters. The unfortunate death of
>> Irfan is uncondonable and those responsible should be brought to
>> book--yet in all likelihood it looks like it was accidental, if you
>> heard what the mother had to say.
>>
>> Accident or whatever, it was cruel. There are only very few deaths and
>> injuries in Kashmir that evoke "aahs" and "uffs" of our Dilliwala
>> bleeding-hearts or stir media houses into a frenzy to sip to the last
>> dregs "tragic human stories" (which, for them, are actually feel-good
>> stories--"well, see, we are not the only ones doing the
>> killings"--even if we do most of them!). So, I am not surprised about
>> the media "reaction" to Irfan's death. It is the same media which just
>> celebrated CBI's criminal report on Shopian rape case. There is a fine
>> line between objectivity and nationalism, and Indian media is not only
>> unaware of it, but has placed itself at the unethical end of
>> right-wing nationalism.
>>
>> Old town Baramulla has always defied government control and it is not
>> a new  feature. These old towns and the downtowns are the working
>> class hubs in the Kashmir valley, but they are also centers for
>> small-scale artisans, who don't care about government jobs.
>> Businessmen, really, do not form the silent majority there.
>>
>> Geelani sahab and his Islamist followers are worried that these
>> stone-pelters are on their own, that they don't listen to them. Which
>> is kind of the opposite of what he wanted at the Eid Gah rally in
>> 2008, where in front of a million people he claimed to be the sole
>> leader of Kashmiris, amid boos and eewws.
>>
>> I understand that your earnestness in posting these news-reports is in
>> good faith, and it is not a feel-good thing for you. I, like you, hope
>> that those who were involved are punished.
>>
>> Junaid
>>
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