Detainees: People of Kashmir
Aggressors: Indian Armed Military forces
Crime: Peaceful processions demanding freedom
Aggressor's Strategy: Strangulate the people to strangulate their voices
Tactics: Military at your door steps with shoot at sight orders, with occasional intrusion into homes and beating up inmates
"My brother had gone to get milk for the family," said Hilal Ahmad. "We heard a noise and rushed outside and saw my brother being beaten. My father then started to cry out to leave his son alone and the soldiers shot him. We are ordinary shopkeepers and [soldiers] used to come to our shop to buy milk. They knew us. Why did they kill us?"
Source: The Guardian, Tuesday August 26 2008
Daily routine - Breakfast: Tea...yes tea alone for lack of milk and bread, Dinner:Home grown vegetables and rice, Daily activity: See someone getting beaten up, or worse killed.
Night: You don't sleep, just pray that the Indian military personnel don't barge into your house in the night and hurt your family.
Summary: State Sponsored Terrorism
Fact: August had 26 days and 25 nights till today, in Kashmir most people spent 20 of these days and nights under Civil Curfew and shoot at sight orders from the Indian administration. It shouldn't be that hard to imagine the physical and emotional stress of being under occupation!
The blogger is rright in everything that he has said. The plight of the kashmiri people presently in unimaginable. In a modern society like today where everybody is living a luxurious and enjoyable life, the Kashmiris are being denied access to even the most basic amenities of life. Anyone who ventures out of his home is beaten to pulp by batons or worse shot down, if he happens to enter into an argument with the troopers. I can compile a full list of atrocities being committed upon us during this curfew , but unfortunately i am short of time. I as a person living in these terrible condition am fully aware of the ground situation, no matter what the external sources say!
ReplyDeleteI hope the government takes some action soon. The people are being starved!!! This is sheer atrocity! Isn't the world watching??? Don't they care about the suffering of other people?
ReplyDeleteWell I don't think you can expect much from the government. The situation has been created due to the government's dual policy in Jammu and Kashmir, and its double standards when dealing with public law and order.
ReplyDeleteWe have been house arrested for 8 days and 8 nights now continuously. Don't they even care about our religious sentiments now? Day after tomorrow is the first day of the holy month of Ramadhan, and there are many helpless people who don't have the basic commodities available at home due to lack of money. I belong to a upper middle class family and even I am facing severe financial crisis due to the non-stop curfew. I need to get supplies for the holy month and i lack money for that. The reason is that the banks are shut down and the ATM machines are out of order. Are the concerned bloody authorities in a slumber??? Don't we even have the right to fulfill our Islamic duties? When we want to spread the news of our disastrous condition to the external agencie, we are not allowed to do so. The only medium of communicating with the external world is internet now which only 0.2% of the Kashmiris have access to... Is anybody listening. Dear blogger, please convey the news of this atrocity around.
ReplyDeleteI am aware of this crisis. I even heard that the people were not allowed to go to the mosques for Friday congregations. I spoke with a friend in Jammu and interestingly he has been going to his office all this time and doing other activities. I wonder what kind of curfew have the authorities imposed in Jammu. It is a clear indication of partiality, despite the fact that the people in Jammu has caused more damage to government and public property and even announced civil disobedience, the yard stick to enforce law there, is quite different.
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