This is Children’s Day in Kashmir. Activists are marking it by focusing on the toll that forcible disappearances, extra-judicial killings, hunt to kill operations, a garrisoned state have on little kids—many of whom are orphaned or who suffer lifelong trauma like PTSD. Many are themselves blinded, disfigured, disabled from pellet guns. Stand with the children of Kashmir & let the world know what is happening as part of building a worldwide movement demanding “Go back, India, go back.”

End the occupation. Self-determination for Kashmir.

Photo by Aasif Shafi:

“I am unable to recognize him even in my dreams, I was just 6 months old when he was abducted by an unknown gunman. Still I am waiting for him, He will come & hug me. Dear ‘Papa,’ nobody loves me, nobody cares for us, We are alone, Mumma is sick, I promise I will never demand for good food & good clothes. I just need your care.”

–13-year-old ‘Shazia’ Said.

Shazia’s father Syed Anwar is missing from 2002, He was an auto driver by profession at Srinagar. Abducted by unknown persons, still his abduction is a mystery. Syed Anwar was one among 8,000 people who are missing since the insurgency began & they believe most have been taken by Indian government forces & never returned. Since 1989, Kashmir has been a state under siege, with both India & Pakistan laying claim to it.

Kashmiri casualties from the Indian occupying army’s hunt to kill operations just in the month of October:

http://thekashmiriyat.co.uk/2018/11/14/kashmir-october-witnessed-52-people-causalities/regional/?

Palestinian school children terrified of Israeli occupying forces:

https://www.facebook.com/younes.arar/posts/10157978197570760

Apologies for too much posting. My morning job gives me too much time to stress over what’s happening to others & my adrenalin has no outlet but social media.

This post about the Israeli president meeting with Burmese General Min Aung Hlaing at the height of the genocidal onslaught against the Rohingya last September is worth reposting to show where Israel fits into the genocidal-industrial complex.

This is Israeli president Reuven Rivlin accepting a bouquet from Burmese Genocidaire-in-Chief General Min Aung Hlaing in appreciation for Israel selling arms to Burma to conduct genocide against the Rohingya people. This was at a meeting in Jerusalem on September 10th, 2017.

Haaretz put its criticism so cogently after pointing out that in the 1990s Israel also sold weapons to the genocidal governments of Rwanda & Serbia: “To send weapons to a government that’s guilty of genocide is very similar to (excuse the comparison) sending weapons to Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Our leaders nevertheless did this knowingly & desecrated the memory of the Holocaust in the process. It’s important to stress that they turned both you & me into criminals, into accessories to a crime & to abettors of genocide.”

Regrettably, Haaretz did not point out that Israel was founded & survives on the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian people.

Honoring BDS, the economic & cultural boycott of Israel, is a powerful way to stand in solidarity with Palestinians against ethnic cleansing & with the Rohingya people against genocide. Buy nothing with a barcode beginning 729 & check every label. The fate of the oppressed in inextricably linked.

(Photo from General Min Aung Hlaing’s FB page)

–Originally published November 17, 2017

“So today is the centenary of the 1918 Armistice. The fighting ceased after four years of slaughter.

Just think back to what you were doing four years ago, all your days of work and rest and play, all your ups and downs, birthdays, funerals, travels and travails. Think of the time between 2014 and today. A century before every single day would have been a day of death and fear and irreplaceable loss. Day after day of mindless killing.

Don’t tell me it was for freedom.”

–Tony Dewberry, Australia

It is so deeply disturbing, in terms of a free press & Palestinian justice, that Palestinians are vilified in all media. The McAllen Monitor, the local paper & hundreds of other local papers; Newsy, the hip news network; all major media, including Univision, the dominant Spanish-language network in the US which is owned by Zionist Haim Saban; even The Onion is owned by Saban. The only place Palestinians can be heard is on social media & that explains the censorship they face.

This isn’t a complaint akin to anti-Semites who claim Zionists control the banks, media, governments. It’s intended to show the strategy Zionists–including Christian Zionists & those who run the US government–employ to control the narrative about Israeli colonialism, apartheid, genocide.

https://www.facebook.com/thekashmiriyat/posts/1938336223138909?

Students from Central University of Kashmir have been protesting the arrest of two students last Friday in a night time raid on their off-campus housing. Suhail Ahmad from Shopian & Muhammad Ismail from Baramulla have no connections to any militant groups. This is a way to intimidate students & teachers from actively opposing occupation. Resistance to the occupation is so profound & pervasive that even arrests & threats or the fear of pellet guns do not stop students from taking to the streets.