Even if it wasn’t agent provocateurs that waved the ISIS Flag at a Kashmiri mosque, if it was in fact Kashmiri kids with stinking rotten politics, that does not for one moment invalidate the justice of the Kashmiri freedom struggle. After over half a century as an activist, I can assure you that political movements attract all kinds of nut cases & misguided or clueless rebels. Or what is Stalinism all about? The only connection ISIS has to azaadi is as a parasite since it is contemptuously rejected by the heart & soul of Kashmiri resistance. The only ones making such odious imputations against azaadi are Hindutvas &
Assadists.
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Censors removed this photo when Haseeb Rahman posted it to commemorate the seven-week Israeli bombing siege over Gaza in July through August 2014. It’s of a young boy sleeping in the rough with bombing rubble in the background. Thousands were injured & killed, & homes, hospitals, ambulances, refugee centers were targeted. The UN & other human rights groups except for Amnesty said that children were particularly targeted by Israeli bombers. Amnesty wrote a deplorable report blaming Hamas.
Doesn’t matter how much they try to censor the truth: we will continue to stand with Palestinians against apartheid, colonialism, genocide. Their’s is the side of justice.
At the same time that China holds over one million Uyghur Muslims in concentration camps to force them to renounce Islam, it passed a law to “guide Islam to be compatible with socialism” & being Chinese. Will sane socialists ever be able to overcome the legacy of Stalinism & Maoism?
This is my post in response to FB prompting me to write a bio.
I was born during WWII & haven’t lived a day since when the US hasn’t been bombing another country.
In updating my blog from my Facebook posts, I noticed (again) that photos were deleted–this time of pellet gun victims, but previously also about Kashmir. In the future, I will copy the photos & acknowledge their source because I would like to keep an accounting of what is being censored & what removed by the original source. If any source objects to that method, please let me know & I will oblige your objections.
The extreme violence against those sustaining war, occupation, genocide is overwhelming to witness. It is our duty as human beings not to turn away because witnessing is as naught compared to enduring. Our commitment must be to build active solidarity to strengthen the political power of those on the front lines during these barbarous times. Nothing less than that is necessary to end the violence & create a humane world. Our deepest respect for Palestinians, Kashmiris, Rohingyas, Uyghurs, indigenous peoples, oppressed castes, & those enduring wars.
“It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry wasn’t as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the Indians.”
–newly “elected” Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro
A paramedic working in Palestine. No other commentary necessary.
(Photo via Mohammed Matter)
Since the US doesn’t allow beheading dissidents & bombing Yemen to stand in the way of its political relationship with Saudi Arabia, it certainly won’t allow the deportation of Rohingya refugees to alter a mutually beneficial relationship.
Today Kashmiris are commemorating the 26th anniversary of the Sopore massacre. Genocide has a long memory which cannot be laid to rest without justice. This post explains what happened in Sopore on January 6th, 1993.
SOPORE MASSACRE ANNIVERSARY AND THE JANUARY OF MASSACRES
January in Kashmir is also referred to as the month of massacres, for it has in the past witnessed some of the biggest and most brutal massacres carried out by the Indian occupation forces against the civilian populace of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. As with all other human rights abuses and crimes against humanity, none of the perpetrators of the massacres in Kashmir has been brought to justice or held accountable.
Today is the 26th anniversary of one of the ‘January Massacres’ which was carried out against the unarmed civilian population of Kashmir.
Sopore Massacre, 1993. Figures: 57 killed. 400 shops burnt. 75 houses detroyed.
Read on:
https://greaterkashmir.com/…/sopore-massacre-wh…/308597.html
#MemoryIsResistance #ResistanceIsExistence #LestWeForget
Attached below are pictures from the archives, depicting a small portion of the aftermath.
This is an additional article about the massacre by Faizan Bashir: https://m.kashmirobserver.net/2019/opinion/6-january-1993-remembering-smouldering-sopore-39249?