There has been some reporting of the Multi Party Event on Kashmir held yesterday. It seems that I lost on quite a lot of the discussions after leaving for Mehbooba Mufti, the separatist patron mother, reiterated what she has been proclaiming all along, i.e., that autonomy is the only the solution to Kashmir, that the pro Pakistani, Syed Ali Geelani’s blessings are a must for any lasting solution, that security forces must be withdrawn etc etc. What she has left unsaid is that Azadi from India remains the crux of all demands and nothing short of secession will sate the Kashmiri Muslims thirst for cribbing, constant stone throwing and perpetual demonstrations.
Of greater import are the comments made by Yasin Malik, where he has accused ‘Indian’ facilitators of having become stakeholders in the peace process. He wants these well wishers from the Indian ‘civil society’ which has anyways ‘failed’ the Kashmiris, to only act as a facilitator between the Government of India and the separatists. What would be the ultimate goal of such negotiations are nobody’s guess. Am sure that the Indian ‘civil’ society must now be quite ashamed of their duplicity and will redouble, nay triple their efforts to complete Kashmir’s secession from India. At least Yasin is honest and and has no qualms in fearlessly proclaiming that the terrorism in Kashmir is a freedom struggle which will continue till the logical conclusion is achieved. I guess it doesn’t take much to understand what the logical conclusion to any freedom struggle is.
Now I come to the part on which I wrote yesterday; the insensitivity of the Indian ‘civil’ society to the sufferings of the Kashmiri Pandits vis-à-vis their fawning admiration for the separatists. A report states that "While Malik was speaking, some members of Kashmiri Pandit groups - Panun Kashmir and Roots in Kashmir (RIK) created ‘ruckus’ (emphasis added) by shouting anti-JKLF slogans.
Of greater import are the comments made by Yasin Malik, where he has accused ‘Indian’ facilitators of having become stakeholders in the peace process. He wants these well wishers from the Indian ‘civil society’ which has anyways ‘failed’ the Kashmiris, to only act as a facilitator between the Government of India and the separatists. What would be the ultimate goal of such negotiations are nobody’s guess. Am sure that the Indian ‘civil’ society must now be quite ashamed of their duplicity and will redouble, nay triple their efforts to complete Kashmir’s secession from India. At least Yasin is honest and and has no qualms in fearlessly proclaiming that the terrorism in Kashmir is a freedom struggle which will continue till the logical conclusion is achieved. I guess it doesn’t take much to understand what the logical conclusion to any freedom struggle is.
Now I come to the part on which I wrote yesterday; the insensitivity of the Indian ‘civil’ society to the sufferings of the Kashmiri Pandits vis-à-vis their fawning admiration for the separatists. A report states that "While Malik was speaking, some members of Kashmiri Pandit groups - Panun Kashmir and Roots in Kashmir (RIK) created ‘ruckus’ (emphasis added) by shouting anti-JKLF slogans.
Another news report portrays the event in more glowing terms:
"A group of Kashmiri Pandits ‘heckled’ (emphasis added) the chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik, and blamed him for their exodus from the Valley. However, Malik resisted their attempt to cow him down and justified taking up the gun to highlight the Kashmir issue. (emphasis added) As soon as Malik started his address a small group of Pandits 'heckled' (emphasis added) him. However, JKLF chairman reacted strongly saying, “these obscurantist forces are responsible for the political unrest in the Valley.” (emphasis added) Organizers immediately intervened and avoided the situation from taking an ugly turn.
Another news report mentions:
During the course of the proceedings, the organiser of the forum has (sic) to call police when a group of pundits tried to interrupt Yasin Malik to deliver his speech.
Please note. Protests of people who have lost everything get reported as ruckus and heckling and a leader of the killers is portrayed as a strong person who refused to be ‘cowed’ down. Notice the alacrity of the organizers who had no qualms in calling the police even. And who were these protestors? A bunch of students who were armed with cameras!! Thank God for the organizers else those cameras could have caused a blood bath!
The story of Kashmiri Pandits get beautifully captured in those comments of Yasin where he calls them the obscurantist forces responsible for the political unrest in the Valley! This mentality of the Kashmiri majority has been all pervading since the times of Sheikh Abdullah and saw its ghastly culmination in the ethnic cleansing of 1990. Since the media and ‘civil’ societies love secularism and any display of the same, each of the polished Kashmiri ‘victim’ takes pain to proclaim that the Pandits are our own and we welcome them back. However, a façade is a façade and it takes a mere surface scratch to show up the true colors of all these separatists of different hues.
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