Two Hindutva walls, including a fan page for Indian journalist & Modi fangirl Barkha Dutt, are drawing hundreds of nationalists to my wall. I’ve blocked a few hundred already along with any who like their comments or laugh inappropriately at my posts. But they keep coming. So just they know, it’s still legal in the US to make asses of yourself in public though not encouraged as it is by the Indian government. I will get to you & I will block you since FB refuses to stop your harassment though I have unsuccessfully & repeatedly attempted to block both walls.
Daily Archives: August 15, 2019
NYC #StandWithKashmir on India’s Independence Day:
NYC'S KASHMIR PROTESTS: On India's Independence Day, protesters take to the streets in New York over the Indian government's decision to rescind the autonomy of Kashmir, a contested Muslim-majority region that India and Pakistan both claim (they've fought three wars over it since 1947). India has cut off Kashmir's internet and cell phone access, tear-gassed protesters, and arrested top political leaders. Pakistan has asked the U.S. to intervene, but Pres. Trump has yet to take a position as tensions rise between the two nuclear-armed nations.
Posted by NowThis Politics on Thursday, August 15, 2019
The siege from a pack of deranged Hindutva boys has been repelled. The block button is an activist’s best friend.
When we demand the release of all Kashmiri political prisoners, we must include those arrested before this current siege, those arrested during it, & those children abducted in night raids by Indian occupying forces. According to the recent investigative report by Indian political activist Kavita Krishnan, economist Jean Dreze, & Maimoona Mollah:
“We met people in villages all over Kashmir, where little kids have been… there is no other word to use… they have been abducted by the police. They have been picked up from their homes in the middle of the night from their beds and they are held indefinitely, illegally, either in army camps or in police stations. They are being beaten up. Their parents have no way of ascertaining whether their children will disappear or be returned. There is no case that is registered, no FIR. I can say that to every village we went, there were arrests that had happened.”
Copenhagen #StandWithKashmir rally, August 15th, 2019:
(Photo tweeted by Bea @HerNameIs_Bea)
#StandWithKashmir rally at Indian Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, August 15, 2019.
(Photo by Asif Mushtaq)
The scary thing about this article is that it reports 800 political leaders & activists in Kashmir have been arrested. India still does not name who they are or where they have been imprisoned. It’s likely far more have been arrested. The political prisoners we’re concerned about do not include Mufti, Abdullah, or Faesal who are collaborators acting out a drama to emerge as champions of #azaadi. We’re concerned about Parveena Ahangar, Parvez Imroz, Khurram Parvez, investigators from JKCCS, activists from the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, journalists, well-known bloggers & commentators on social media, political cartoonists, working class stone pelters, feminists who exposed Kunan Poshpora.
Demanding the release of all Kashmiri political prisoners must be a central demand of our campaigns.
“India’s illegal power grab is turning Kashmir into a colony” by Kashmiri writer Mirza Waheed:
“Years from now, Barkha Dutt’s work will be taught as an example of… comforting a mass-murdering occupier, and afflicting the terrified women and children of Kashmir.”
–tweeted by Asad Rahim Khan about Dutt who is an Indian journalist more aptly called a propagandist for the Modi regime
Chanting #Azaadi, “The Sikh Community in 🇦🇺 showed solidarity with people of Kashmir. Kashmir is bleeding since 72 years under occupation.”
–tweeted by Kashmir @Kaifyjaaan with a video of rally