The curfew imposed by Indian authorities to gag the popular voice in Srinagar, entered the 4th day today. This is the most harsh and brutal curfew seen anywhere in the modern world. A group of International journalists who tried to distribute some eatables and beverages where a witness to the highhandedness of the occupying forces. When asked "Do you want people to die of starvation?", the troops answered "Yes". Distribution of any eatable or beverage amounts to violation of curfew, a curfew which has entered its 4th day and hasn't seen a break yet.
The administration hasn't even spared the hospitals from their ruthlessness. "We had no medical supplies and equipments in store, not even cotton and bandage," the doctors at the Bone and Joint Hospital in Srinagar said. "Then the ICRC (International Committee for Red Cross) provided some 2000 pounds of cotton besides other essentials to the hospital." The blocking of the highways by the Indian communal forces has been the root cause of most of the problems, and imposing an indefinite curfew has ensured that people can't make local purchases also.
Ambulances and medical staff have never been stopped anywhere in the world even in the most difficult times of wars, but the Indian policy in Kashmir is different. Here innocent civilians are hurt with batons and in many cases fired upon and then ambulances aren't allowed to ply on the road. An ambulance carrying one woman from Bapora from South Kashmir, was stopped by Indian armed troops and wasn't allowed to head towards the hospital in Srinagar, the woman needed immediate medical attention, and died.
And you thought that Saddam committed war crimes. India has been doing this for the last 20 years. Even the bakers who tried were stopped from preparing bread for the local consumption, and were threatened by the Indian troops. The people have nothing to eat and with each passing day the children are starving.
Ironically India claims to be a civilised society and a democratic nation and attempts to join the international fraternity, but in Kashmir, India behaviour is nothing but barbaric, perhaps a true representation of its reality.
I had been going down th the market to purchase some essential supplies during the curfew relaxation time. When i was coming back home some CRPF troopers caught hold of me and beat me to pulp. The milk container in my hands got spilled all over the road and the threw the vegetables across. I asked them " What is my crime?" And they retaliated by saying that: " Your crime is that you are a Kashmiri!"
ReplyDeleteI am sure the times are really tough for you. I can imagine such a behaviour been met out to you perhaps an ordinary civilian, when the Indian troops don't even exempt Journalists and doctors from this treatment.
ReplyDeleteAn full-stop has to be put to this brutality as soon as possible before it harms more people!
ReplyDeleteI agree, even the UN has asked India to stop its brutal treatment of the Kashmiri people(OHCHR). Lets see if India honours this call or ignores it like the UN resolution of August 13, 1948.
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