Delhi, India #StandWithKashmir protest this week.
We don’t have to speculate about where this genocidal & fascistic onslaught against Muslims in Kashmir, Assam, & India is headed. We know exactly where it’s going from the Islamophobic ‘war on terror’ in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, & the genocidal campaigns against Muslims in Burma, China, & Palestine. We are called on to give this hateful, monstrous ideology its Waterloo moment & decisively defeat it once & for all as a weapon of colonialism. History has strengthened that struggle for us by putting Kashmiris, Palestinians, Syrians, & other fearless fighters on the front lines of oppression. We cannot let them stand alone.
Chennai, India #StandWithKashmir rally, August 25th, 2019.
At a conference in South Africa, King Redebi bhungie III, who was part of the struggle against apartheid & spent ten years in jail on an island with Nelson Mandela, said: “Time has come for the people of Kashmir whether to submit or fight but I think that time has come for them to fight.” It’s a good statement but the people of Kashmir have been fighting for at least 70 years.
Kashmiri women staff the barricades put up by residents of the Soura neighborhood in Srinagar to make it a ‘no-go zone’ for Indian troops on Wednesday, August 28th, 2019.
The struggle for self-determination in Kashmir, as in Palestine–actually the struggle against genocide–involves men, women, & children.
(Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)
A senior Kashmiri woman breaking up stones to hand out to stone pelters against Indian troops at protests on Friday, August 30th, 2019.
What fool said revolution is for the young!?
(Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP)
Once again, in a video of children, one doesn’t need language to understand their feelings. This little guy wants to talk to his grandma in Kashmir & is sad that he cannot. He suggests that the very kind man talking to him go to Kashmir to meet his grandma. From the mouthes of babes.
How can I convince my son, who is crying as he has not talked to his Grandmother from long time.
Posted by Kalim Ullah Dar on Friday, August 30, 2019
From Indian journalist Rana Ayyub who is outspoken against India’s siege & blockade of Kashmir:
Fehmeeda is 60 years old. Both her kidneys are failing, she needs a dialysis. Security forces picked her son on the 5th of august after 370 was revoked and now he has gone missing. I have never cried while interviewing somebody but I broke down too. My report from Kashmir and videos will be out soon. Videos shot by Avani Rai
Posted by Rana Ayyub on Friday, August 30, 2019
As the the current Minister of Home Affairs & president of the fascist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2014, Amit Shah is one of the key Indian political figures orchestrating the siege & blockade of Kashmir. This meme from April 2019 explains so much, not just about what India is doing in Kashmir, but in the state of Assam, & the persecution of Muslims & Christians in the rest of India. As we know from history, Sikhs & others would not be free of fear: ‘first they came for Muslims & I was not a Muslim so I did not speak out…”
Indian democracy is at stake. It is not an overstatement to say that democracy everywhere is at stake if their genocidal campaigns are not massively opposed in India & around the world & decisively defeated.