Kashmir.Diary

By Shayesta Lone
M.sc Psycholoygy

After more than four decades of a peaceful struggle against repression, Kashmiris got convinced that India would never honour its commitments to resolve the long standing dispute. The struggle was, and remains, largely peaceful. India sought to suppress the movement with massive use of force, killing hundreds of innocent men, women and children. This led some of the Kashmiri youth to take up arms. Since 1989, more than100,000 Kashmiri people have been killed in a reign of terror unleashed by over 6000,000 Indian troops. Many more languish in Indian jails where they are subjected to torture and custodial killings. There have been numerous cases of gang rapes of Kashmiri women by Indian forces and the deliberate burning down of entire localities and villages. These brutalities have been documented by international and even Indian Human Rights Organizations. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch as well as Indian Human Rights NGOs have extensively documented the gross violation of human rights of the Kashmiri people by Indian military and para military forces. Extra-judicial killings, involuntary disappearances, arbitrary detentions, rapes and torture continue to be reported on a large scale. The Kashmiri leaders have been repeatedly harassed and physically intimidated. They have also been denied travel permission to prevent them from exposing the naked truth about Kashmir. The massive suppression by India is clearly designed to silence the people of Jammu and Kashmir through sheer force. India refuses to acknowledge that the people of the state have become totally alienated and there is complete rejection of Indian presence in Kashmir. The recent mammoth gathering at Eid Gah was a standing testimony to the fact. Unfortunately UNO has turned a deaf ear to this burning problem. Why does not it persuade India and Pakistan to resolve the long standing issue of Jammu and Kashmir the way it held referendum in East Timor and Indonesia had to comply. But at the moment it doesn’t seem to be so because India even rejects the role of United Nations military observer in Kashmir. In fact they have not registered any ceasefire violation with UNMO so far since 1947 what actually their presence is meant for. India is taking full advantage of the UN ignorance with respect to Kashmir and has been constantly trying to suppress the freedom moment of Kashmir with force.
Right from 1947 after the partition, scores of Kashmiri people fled to other side of Pakistan held Kashmir. Since their departures they have been waiting for such an opportunity to get back their ancestral place viz a viz this part of Kashmir but unfortunately there is no room for them to get settled here because of sheer hatred between India and Pakistan. In the middle of the situation, a common Kashmiri gets crushed. In fact a few of them mustered such courage to cross over here to their motherland and paid the price.
The another forced migration took place in 1989 which left hundreds of thousands of people homeless and were forced to flee their native place for being charged of religious,social and political coordination and got dispersed throughout world ,who are also being deserted by few vested elements ignoring their sacrifice ,but those elemntents will have to face the people and will be made accountable for their sins.
Similarly, students, business people, labourers staying in other states of India for their respective jobs have always been under scanner by various agencies and they keep searching for pretexts to frame them. They are being punished for the ‘sin’ of being Kashmiris.

KASHMIRIS ARE SAFER IN KASHMIR THAN IN INDIA