Indian officials took the rightwing EU delegation out boating on Dal Lake in Srinagar after lunch & before dinner at a swank hotel with Indian Army officials & collaborators. Opportunities galore for selfies but the delegation only plans on being in Kashmir for two days. What’s next on the agenda of their fact-finding mission? Any visits to the local torture centers or jails? Any discussions with mothers whose sons have been abducted in midnight raids? Any interviews with human rights activists who haven’t been arrested & sent to hell hole prisons in India?
Monthly Archives: October 2019
On arriving in Kashmir, the EU delegation was briefed by senior Indian Army officials, then lunched & had dinner with army officials & selected Kashmiris at a posh hotel. Just how independent can you get from the Indian government!? The delegation of European rightwing extremists are mocking their position in the EU & if there is any good sense, let alone integrity, left in the EU, it would publicly disassociate itself from this nationalist dog & pony show at the expense of the Kashmiri people.
Madi Sharma, who describes herself as a ‘social capitalist” & “international business broker”, is the person who organized the delegation of EU members to Kashmir through her group Women’s Economic & Social Think Tank. They weren’t there to assess the human rights situation but to whitewash genocide for the Indian government so they can promote European investment in India’s plunder of Kashmir. This article is a useful exposé of the EU delegation.
It should be said that if in fact it was not an official EU delegation but rather the extreme European rightwing using their status in the EU to promote the plunder of Kashmir, then the EU should make that distinction clear lest it be implicated in this nefarious maneuver.
The only thing this video has wrong is that, according to Kashmiri human rights leader Parvez Imroz, India has arrested 20,000 to 30,000 Kashmiris since August 5th, not 4,000. We don’t know if the 13,000 abducted & incarcerated children are included in the estimates.
This video is a response to an election campaign video released by the Bharti Jantya Party (BJP), the ruling party of India (https://twitter.com/BJP4India/status/1112560352976429056), highlighting the economic growth and development that took place under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is a facade.Here is what they did not tell you: The Indian State has administered an inhumane occupation of Kashmiris since 1947. While Kashmiris are under a complete communications shutdown, this video aims to inform global audiences regarding the physical, psychological and political persecution of Kashmir. As well as the long struggle of the Kashmiri people for the right of self-representation and self-determination against all odds. The Indian State has granted the Indian Armed Forces complete impunity in the region under Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA). The act allows for arrests and search without warrant, destruction of property and use of lethal action even if it causes death. The Act further allows India Officers complete immunity under “good faith” which has empowered them to commit human rights transgressions such as torture, state abductions, mass rapes, use of pellet guns with intent to blind, targeting minors, and administering multiple civilian massacres over the years.The impact of such state overreach in the most militarized region in the world has been immense: Kashmiris have suffered economic losses, for example $1.4 billion in just the last two months. Children have lost school days, as parents refuse to let children attend school in times of high tensions. Kashmir faces frequent medical shortages, as curfews and telecommunication blackouts makes access to healthcare facilities difficult. Around 45% Kashmiri adults have been diagnosed with distress, 50% of Kashmiri women suffer from depression and 22% suffer from PTSD, meanwhile Kashmir only has one psychiatric hospital. To hide its criminal activity, the Indian state has suppressed all political representation of indigenous Kashmiri movements, abducted journalists, and regularly shut down internet and mobile services in the region to limit information. As the Indian State heads towards a local body “election” in Kashmir on the 25th of October 2019, political leadership, bar that of the Indian ruling party, either remains under arrest or has boycotted the election as a sham. We call on the viewers to play their part by adding their voices and efforts to the cause of Kashmir. Case4Kashmir is a collective of artists, academics, and activists dedicated to amplifying the voices of Kashmir. If you would like to work with us in any of these capacities contact us on: case4kashmir@gmail.comResearcher: Aimun FaisalEditor/Post: Yasir ChangeziProducer: Aatir SohailExecutive Producer/Creative: Mohammad Jibran NasirApple Don’t Blink Video:Link: https://twitter.com/apple/status/773604633008680964?lang=enMusic Credits: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2-5se94M2I)Song: Tiger RhythmArtist: SurkinPhotography Credits:Photo at 00.26: Danish Ismail/ReutersPhoto at 01.57: Matt Brandon (https://thedigitaltrekker.com)References:India imposes lockdown Kashmir puts leaders house arrest.- Al Jazeerahttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/india-imposes-lockdown-kashmir-puts-leaders-house-arrest-190804174841241.htmlImpact of Violence on Children of JK – JKCSShttp://jkccs.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018-Impact-of-Violence-on-Children-of-JK-JKCCS.pdfIndia revokes Kashmir special status – latest update – Al Jazeerahttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/india-revokes-kashmir-special-status-latest-updates-190806134011673.htmlMEDIA PORTRAYAL OF KATHUA RAPE-AND-MURDER CASE – Dr. Ruheela Hassan http://www.researchdirections.org/Management/articleupload/article662.pdfKashmir’s Mental Health Crisishttps://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/06/kashmir-mental-health-crisis-160620085520339.htmlKashmir children are being brutalised – TRT World:https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/kashmir-s-children-are-being-brutalised-17207Will India identify bodies in Kashmir’s mass graves, like it did in Iraq – TRT Worldhttps://trtworld.com/magazine/will-india-identify-bodies-in-kashmir-s-mass-graves-like-it-did-in-iraq–17044Report on the situation of Human Rights in Kashmir – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/PK/DevelopmentsInKashmirJune2016ToApril2018.pdf
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A Kashmiri child’s grief speaks for a nation: another picture from Kashmir worth a thousand Hindutva lies.
(This is from a funeral in 2019 but the deceased is not named. Photographer is not identified. )
Since the Indian government uses beef eating as justification for persecuting Muslims, it’s revealing to know that so far in 2019, India is the world’s second largest exporter of beef, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Indian capitalism is no respecter of cows, let alone Hindu beliefs or Muslim lives.
Most of this is old footage from Kashmir, some of it from the brutal crackdown on the uprising in 2016, but it shows what Kashmiris have always been subjected to by the Indian Army. We can be sure this violence against unarmed young people is only worse now when Indian forces are abducting & incarcerating thousands of kids.
https://www.facebook.com/kashmirfreedomfromindia/videos/2268891603232762/
A powerful piece about SAR Geelani, the Kashmiri falsely accused, prosecuted & given the death penalty, but later acquitted of trying to blow up the Indian Parliament in 2001. He just died from cardiac arrest.
https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/unscathed-humanity-professor-sar-geelani?
Kashmiri activist Jaina Maina has been permanently deleted by Facebook for objecting to being trolled by women-hating & Muslim-hating nationalists. Someone else has stolen her identity, including a family photo, but we are unable to report that since to Facebook the real Jaina Maina does not exist. It is another attempt to silence the eloquent voices of Kashmiri resistance.
Having learned a thing or two from the Assad regime, the Indian government is parading a delegation of rightwing extremists from the EU through Kashmir so they can counter the reports of torture & violence against Kashmiris.