The mistake made by the Pakistani representative at the UN in holding up the photo of a Palestinian shrapnel victim thinking it was a Kashmiri pellet victim is entirely understandable. That photo has been shared so many times as a Kashmiri girl that I actually wrote a post about it last March. There’s no reason to berate her for the mistake. We can run with it to educate more people about the barbaric character of the Israeli & Indian occupations.

One way to respond to the mistake by the Pakistani representative at the UN is to be in-your-face with actual photos of Kashmiri pellet victims & with Palestinian bombing victims. This young girl is a Kashmiri pellet victim.

End the occupation of Kashmir. End the occupation of Palestine.

Photo of Gaza City beach in July 2014 just after four young Palestinian boys were killed by Israeli bombers. Same beach Modi and Netanyahu recently strolled on?

Interview with Rollie Mukherjee during her recent visit to Kashmir:

http://kashmirink.in/news/interview/-people-outside-believe-whatever-is-shown-about-kashmir-on-tv/441.html

A brief video on the use of pellet guns in Kashmir:

https://www.facebook.com/pervez.nehru.3/posts/2022571748019326?pnref=story

The intentional disabling & disfiguring of young people in Palestine & Kashmir by the occupying armies is to intimidate & terrorize resistance. It must be extremely demoralizing for young people who have to learn how to live without vision or legs & arms & with shrapnel or pellets buried in their internal organs causing a lifetime of pain & health problems.

We have to express international outrage & opposition to these monstrous crimes whilst at the same time acknowledging the ethos of disability rights that every human being is perfect, just as they are.

If anyone would like to send photos of Kashmiri pellet victims to Maleeha Lodhi at the UN, here is the email: pakistan@un.int. You may also want to send copies to NDTV in India at: www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/new/feedback.aspx

What’s going on in Burma, Kashmir, Palestine, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, & so many other places on every other continent can be overwhelming. Some who lay claim to deeper sensitivities back off to bury themselves in poetry & ignorance. With all due respect to their poetic souls, yeah right; cut the crap! If war, occupation, & genocide are unbearable to witness, then imagine what a hell on earth they are to endure. No one is too sensitive to stand with them against these monstrous crimes. Not standing with them is a betrayal of their humanity & our own.

A White Helmet rescue worker with injured child after Russian airstrike in Idlib: here you have one of the reasons why fascists & other Assad supporters spend most of their time vilifying the White Helmets. It’s the old switch & bait routine since in the last 24 hours Russian bombers killed over 50 civilians, including 15 children, in Syria’s “ceasefire zones”. Syria’s allies in counter-revolution–including Russia, Iran, the US, Hezbollah, Saudi Arabi, ISIS–do not want revolution against dictatorship in Syria any more than they want it in their own countries.

(Tweeted by Julian Röpcke‏ @JulianRoepcke)

“The world’s first organized mass blinding is taking place in Kashmir by India’s occupational state.” But apparently this is all news to Indian media. Perhaps activists can relay these photos to Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s representative at the UN, so she has accurate photos of pellet gun injuries in Kashmir, & also to Indian media who are playing stupid about pellet gun injuries.

(From Kashmir Freedom)

So glad Indian media straightened out Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s UN representative, who held up a photo at the UN General Assembly of a Palestinian girl suffering shrapnel injuries from Israeli carpet bombing of Gaza in 2014. Here she thought it was one of the thousands of young people in Kashmir suffering pellet gun injuries inflicted by the Indian occupying army–like the young boy on the right.

Now that Indian media has clarified that, will they start reporting on the criminal military relationship India has going with Israel & start reporting on the Indian army’s human rights crimes in Kashmir? Or will they just ride it out & continue covering for the monstrous crimes of their government? Does Indian media require more documentation of pellet gun injuries in Kashmir? That can, unfortunately, be provided in abundance.

(Photo on left is Palestinian girl; photo on right is Kashmiri boy)