“Blessed are peacemakers.
19-year-old Hilel Garmi spent 107 days in Israeli jail for refusing to serve in Israel’s army. “I’ve thought the occupation of Palestine was immoral at least since I was in eighth grade. But it was the March of Return that played a large role in sustaining the courage to say no to military service.”

–from Nes Lowe

Mir Laieeq was addressing Indian antiwar activists who support the occupation of Kashmir when he said, “Reclaim your humanity by opposing war in all its forms & manifestations & not selectively.” His words should be a clarion call to the entire corrupted international antiwar movement that opposes only US & Israeli intervention but supports Iranian intervention & Russian & Syrian bombing of civilians. We urge them to reclaim their humanity & their political principles & ‘oppose war in all its forms & manifestations & not selectively’.

The US, UK, & France, all involved in several wars, have proposed the UN Security Council designate Masood Azhar a global terrorist. He’s the head of Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) which claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb that killed 42 Indian counterinsurgency troops. Doesn’t it all come down to how we define terrorism. Most sane people would consider the presence of nearly a million troops in Kashmir engaged in every kind of human rights crimes to be terrorism. But the global powers that bomb millions of civilians in the name of fighting terrorism don’t see things that way. Because they’re not fighting terrorism. They’re trying to crush freedom struggles.

Say no to war. End the occupation of Kashmir. Out now from Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan.

So much concern for that downed Indian pilot. It’s touching. It really is. So little concern for Kashmiris under occupation sustaining every form of human rights crime on a massive scale. What’s wrong with that picture?

“To indians, by all means trend #NoToWar, but we will know you are serious only if you trend #EndIndianOccupationInKashmir as well. Kashmiris are fighting for freedom from your country for over 70 years now and are resisting the war imposed on them for 30 years. Reclaim your humanity by opposing war in all its forms and manifestations and not selectively. Cool hashtags is all well, but remember the biggest Litmus Test continues to be Kashmir. You cannot claim to be a decent human being and yet support the core violent assertion that “Kashmir is the integral part of India”. Expand the anti-war discourse to include the real cause and not just the symptoms, otherwise hashtags are nothing but simplest means of self deception. Wake up.”

–Mir Laieeq

India bombed Pakistan. Now Pakistan will bomb India. It is going on for years. #Kashmir in the meantimes bleeds. We all need peace.
Indian violence in Kashmir since 1989:
Killed by Indian army: 94,479
Custodial killings by Indian army: 7,048
Disappearances of Kashmiris at the hands of Indians: 10,125
Gang rapes by Indians in Kashmir: 10,283
Kashmiri blinded by Indian firing: 188
Kashmiri Kids orphaned: 20,085
Kashmiri Women widowed: 20,005
Kashmiri Buildings destroyed: 106,071
Its about time the world grant Kashmiris what the #UN promised and Indians and Pakistanis agreed to: A right of self-determination. Allow vote to decide if they want to remain in India, join Pakistan or become an independent nation.

via Muddaththir Maqsood

https://medium.com/@cjwerleman/why-the-world-ignores-indias-violence-in-kashmir-c49f51bb21f9?

(Chart is from September 2017)

Dear friends: I haven’t flown the coop. My work schedule changed & then changed again so I’ve not been attentive to the important things. I’ll catch up with your posts & get back to business. Thank you for expressing concern.