[Assam] Indian Democratic Terror ? Secret Grave-yards in Kashmir.

Sun Apr 20 07:42:37 PDT 2008

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articles by Dr.Abdul Ruff Colachal of Jawaharlal Nehru University?

A "Google" will give a long list of India bashing letters written by Dr.
Abdul Ruff. A coin has two sides. It needs two to tango. 

Allowing this type o letters to be published in the Assamnet would only fuel
the fire of hatred between the communities and is not going to contribute
anything positive.

Wahid Saleh

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Onderwerp: [Assam] Indian Democratic Terror ? Secret Grave-yards in Kashmir.

    20-04-2008
  To
  The Editor

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  Dear Sir:
  Kindly publish this write-up in your newspaper/online. I remain grateful
to you.

  Indian Democratic Terror?  Secret Grave-yards in Kashmir.

  A few lines on what has been happening to Kashmiris would, perhaps, throw
some light on the impact of Indian policy in Kashmir since it occupied the
valley in 1947. Not only India converted Kashmir valley into a well-knit
cantonment of New Delhi, it has unleashed terror on the defenseless
Kashmiris and killed thousands and thousands of Kashmiris, including the
freedom fighting ones. Now freedom fighters are called the "terrorists".

  1. TERRORIST INDIA PREACHES MANNERS TO KASHMIRIS

  It is a known fact that rogues are protected by governments and shielded
by their forces and loyal media the world over. Indian cannot be different
from the general rule. Undoubtedly, India has imposed serfdom on defenseless
Kashmiris on a permanent basis. Like USA does for its own citizens abroad,
democratic India also values lives, welfare and prestige of Hindus in the
country and their well-being outside the country, but when it comes to
Muslims, India feels threatened and shy of its "secular" credentials.
Countless Muslims have been massacred in Kashmir with tacit knowledge of
pro-India Kashmiri leaders and else where by India, but it sheds "tears"
when a supposedly Hindu is subjected to atrocities by others. India
government and media always make it point to let Hindus know that they are
well-protected and their interests are supreme. That could even be a game
plan too in order to maintain their support for government actions. 

  Indian forces that have colonized Kashmir, have abused HR as much as they
can in that secluded part of the world called Kashmir. They molested, raped-
one does not know how many-- women in Kashmir which is under their
occupation and custody. Indian patriotic media and writers, even those born
in today's Pakistan, never bothered to mention about that in their articles
published by core Indian media and else where for payments, but make a big
hue and cry if a Hindu woman 's "modesty" is hurt. One can call it Indian
hypocrisy or an aspect of Indian democracy and secularism, but that is
indeed nasty behavior on part of any nation in modern times. India is proud
of its double-speak and double-standards indoors and abroad.

  India strategy is to kill Kashmiris even as terrorizing them en-masse and
spread the rumors around the world by using its missions, media and other
net workings abroad. Then cripple them by denying basic human rights. As
counter-defese from Kashmiri patriots to state-terrorism is receding, India
uses spiritual and diplomatic channels to pacify the affected Kashmiris.
While doing so, the fingers would point to patriotic Kashmiris as culprits
and paint them as terrorists. That is what exactly is happening now in
Kashmir with intermittent exodus of spiritual personalities thronging to
Srinagar to preach peace to them. 

  In the context of anti-Islamism and anti-Kahmirism, it should be well
remembered that these self-styled Indian spiritual leaders, lecturing on
peace and good conduct to hapless Kashmiris, have not touched upon the basic
truth: the Kashmiri sovereignty and the need for granting independence back
to Kashmiris before getting every single Kashmiri killed brutally by India.
These "statesmen-spirits" maintain a governmental, criminal silence on
Indian genocide and Kashmiri sovereignty. These Indian patriots should have
asked the Indian government to withdraw its terrorist forces from Kashmir
leaving the valley for Kashmiris to decide their own future freely. If they
are real believers, they will still make India see reason to vacate Kashmir.
If India leaves Kashmir now they could be seen as peace lovers and India's
voluntary resolution of the illegal conflict as magnanimous gesture from New
Delhi. 

  Recently there was uproar in Indian media about a Hindu woman being
molested by armed forces in India. But so far several Muslim women have
faced even worse treatment of forces occupying their land and Indian media
shut their eyes comfortably. How can a country specializing in subjects like
secularism and democracy should make a distinction between its Hindus and
Muslims, Indian terrorist forces and Kashmiri patriots who are still under
Indian control? The way licenses are being issued for the sale of liquor
disregarding the sentiments of Kashmiris is a matter concern and amounts to
crime against Kashmiri nation. And a sex scandal was hatched in Srinagar and
those involved in sex scandal have been let off and the case itself has been
transferred to Chandigarh shows how government itself is involved in this
murky business of patronizing and promoting the moral degradation in the
society. India still wants to ruin Kashmir by insulting and injuring and
killing its people.

  Aside the regular genocide and political discourses on peace conducted by
India in Kashmir, Indian spiritual leaders are also being deputed by Indian
strategists and government agencies to preach manners and democratic values
to Kashmir who have already lost thousands and thousands of kith and kin
over several decades of Indian atrocities in Kashmir. These Indian agents
keep visiting Kashmir on an agenda of pro-Indianizing the freedom seeking
Kashmiris. They talk shamelessly about peace not for the sake of Kashmiris
but for India keen to pacifying Kashmiris. India is eager to project to the
world of peace loving India trying to make a friendly gesture to Kashmiris
to woo them to co-exist with Indian terrorist forces.

  Eventually the New Delhi's move is to deny freedom to Kashmiris, by being
diplomatic. The way India is using its leaders and pro-India Kashmiris to
lecture about virtues of coexistence makes mockery of genocide being
unleashed on defenseless Kashmiris. The nameless dead bodies in various
parts of Kashmir testify to the cruelty and brutality of Indian democracy
and secularism.  

  2. NAMELESS MASS GRAVE-YARDS!

  Kashmiri freedom fighters have encountered numerous incidents of brutality
and destruction from occupying India. India has cleverly used the divisions
among Kashmiris, split the Kashmiris into pro-India and anti-India Kashmiris
and keep fueling the wedge between them. The freedom seekers are not a
splintered lot with several groupings fighting each other endangering the
freedom move. Syed Ali Shah Geelani of Hurriyat Conference, one of the
leading Kashmiri fighters, has tirelessly pursuing the cause of Kashmir
freedom. Geelani was house-arrested for over 72 times and disallowed to
address mosque gatherings. He has asked India to withdraw forces form
Kashmir. 

  Recent detection of anonymous dead bodies and grave-yards in Kashmir has
sent shiver across Jammu Kashmir, though Indian media, as usual, pretent
having any information about that at all. After killing these anonymous
people who were buried in places like Kishama, Chahal and Uri, their bodies
were defaced, burnt and some were cut into pieces, what worst can happen
now. Indian nasty attitude to protests by Kashmiris on Uri secret
grave-yards is not surprising at all. It has to projects its democratic and
secular credentials to the world so that this rogue state somehow befools
the world powers to permit to be in UNSC. On April 15, therefore, Indian
police in Lal Chowk batten charged and arrested over a dozen of Peoples
Freedom League workers and sympathizers including party General Secretary
Rafiq Ahmad Ganai who were holding a big demonstration and marching towards
the UN Military Observers office to present a memorandum to demand UN
inquiry into the discovery of about
 one thousand nameless graves of Kashmiri martyrs, to punish the culprits
behind gross human rights violations in J&K. Demonstrators peacefully raised
pro freedom slogans holding placards and black flags on this occasion in Lal
Chowk. Police Task Force rudely behaved with the workers of JKPFL. Of
course, arrests and torture are a routine affair in Kashmir.

  Geelani organized a sit-in on April 16 in order to register its protest
against the issue of unidentified graves, miserable plight of detainees and
growing moral degradation in the society. The unofficial death toll put it
at lakhs cannot be a mere imaginary given the nature of secret killings
"performed" by Indian terror forces in Kashmir. Geelani expressed concern
over thousands of anonymous mass graves in Uri and termed it as the part of
"war crimes" committed by the troops in Kashmir.  "The report, "Facts
Underground" based on the account of villagers states that the graves might
be of those Kashmiris who were subjected to enforced disappearance by the
troopers," Geelani said in a statement here.  

   Geelani rightly urged the War Crime department of United Nations tribunal
to immediately send a team to Kashmir to ascertain the facts. "The silence
of international community is proving fatal for innocent Kashmiris after
every passing day.  These war crimes have been committed in every nook and
corner of the Valley. I urge international community irrespective of their
religious background to play their role to abolish the state terrorism
unleashed by India," Geelani said. Favoring the exuberant working of
Independent Judicial Commission, he said that international human rights
organizations should be granted an access so that these organizations would
be in a position to take a factual human rights account. 

  Geelani was joined by other freedom fighting groups. Accusing India of
violating Geneva conventions, chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq said that issue of mass graves and Kashmiri detainees
languishing in various jails would be taken up at United Nations. Lashing
out at Indian civil society and the human rights organizations for what he
termed maintaining "criminal silence" over the sufferings of Kashmiris,
Mirwaiz said, "It seems that the people who talk big about the democracy and
human rights are still waiting for something worst to happen. The crimes
committed by the troops in past 18 years are getting unveiled with each
passing day. The recent issue of mass graves is enough evidence of naked
aggression of India. It's unfortunate that so called human rights champions
haven't even uttered a word till date," Mirwaiz said. "The issue of mass
graves coming to fore and issue of Kashmiri detainees would be taken up with
the United Nations," Mirwaiz said
 while addressing a Friday congregation at historic Jamia Masjid, "India is
explicitly violating the norms of Geneva Convention. Despite ongoing human
rights violations it is ironical that India is propagating that normalcy has
returned to Valley." 

  3. INDO-US STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

  As Russia is distancing from India on several issues, including Kashmir,
New Delhi is seen frantically trying to court Washington, the most important
world power of the day to pursue its global interests, including retention
of Kashmir under its custody. Indian longing for "close strategic"
relationship with the USA has been the natural urge by a terrorist Indian
psyche to be closer to the global terrorist state killing thousands and
thousands of Muslims on a priority basis. It has nothing to do with
cleverness, but to showcase the common interests in anti-Islamic agenda
being pursed by "secular" India and "democratic" USA. American should know
full details about Indian genocide in Kashmir and its torture record in
India and Kashmir. However, USA has slammed Indian on HR evasions in
Kashmir. The fact of recently unrevealed and unmarked graves of martyrs is a
serious question and it should be investigated by the Human Rights Council
of the United Nations. International
 Human Rights organizations should be asked to visit the area of the
discovered graves in Kashmir. India seeks USA support to escape punishment
for genocide unleashed in Kashmir for decades.

  An Interim Observation 

  UN, EU, UK and USA must consider instituting a special tribunal to try the
Indian leaders who have been responsible for the ghastly genocide and
destructions in Kashmir since the day when Indian annexed Kashmir quite
tactfully. In fact these bodies should have stooped India when it occupied
Kashmir in the first place and restrained the brutality and genocide all
these years. But at least now they should seriously think of handing down
punishment to criminal India leaders and agencies dealing with
militarization of Kashmir.

  The discovery of mass-graves in Kashmir opens up a Pandora of questions
about Indian policy in Kashmir since 1947 when it tactfully annexed the
valley and also the possible existence of Guantanamo type secret torture
camps in Kashmir run by Indian forces, and ably hidden by Indian "patriotic"
media. It should be clear to India that its brutality and genocides on
hapless Kashmiris, who have been converted into a category of slaves by
India, won't go unpunished.  

  One does not know the details about all secret grave-yards in Kashmir and
else-where in India. But, neo-Imperialist India cannot go on killing the
freedom fighting Kashmiris and also keep calling them, in fancy, the
terrorists. No real democratic power on earth can and should support Indian
and, in stead, every freedom-loving leader must come forward to isolate and
penalize India for criminal atrocities in Kashmir. 
  ------------------------
  Thank you
  Yours Sincerely,
  DR.ABDUL RUFF Colachal
  Analyst, Researcher & Commentator
  Delhi 

  Dr.Abdul Ruff*** Mob: 9349942532 (inward)

  *****This is from:
  Dr.Abdul Ruff Colachal
  Research Scholar, School of International Studies, 
  Jawaharlal Nehru University
  Delhi

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