“Indians are exploding with concerns over mental health but won’t talk about the psychological agony that extrajudicial killings, massacres, political repression, involuntary disappearances, lockdowns and communication blockades have caused in Kashmir.”
–Tweeted by Mir S @Meenwhile

Indian media Times Now had a report on a cache of condoms, contraceptive pills, viagra, & porn recovered from ‘Jaish terrorists’ in Kashmir. The report claimed the terrorists were going to use them to ‘unleash sexual terror’ on Kashmiri women who support India. They bristled with indignation, demanded condemnations, & asked why the abrogation of Article 370 has not ended the exploitation of women in Kashmir. This isn’t just where nationalist propaganda shades into farce. It is a cynical ‘war on terror’ attempt to portray the colonial occupation of Kashmir as a way to advance women’s rights–which is exactly how the US, Europe, Israel, Syria use ‘war on terror’ Islamophobia to justify war, occupation, genocide.
Kashmiri women, & for that matter many Kashmiri men, would be the last to claim Kashmir is a bastion of female liberation. But only a fool would think the Indian Army or Modi regime have any part to play at all in the freedom of women anywhere. India has colossal problems for women & children including considerable child sex trafficking slavery & one of the highest rape rates in the world. Kashmiri women & human rights activists have exposed the Indian Army’s use of mass rapes as a weapon of occupation & social repression & also report on the number of boys sodomized & sexually tortured while incarcerated as political prisoners. We would like to know how the twisted mind of a nationalist can overlook all the alarming data about women & children in India & the Indian Army in Kashmir & pretend to the world that the Indian Army will bring women’s liberation to Kashmir. It is exactly what the US Pentagon & its rightwing feminist supporters claimed about the now 19-year occupation of Afghanistan. And all they have to show for it is millions of refugees, millions of homeless, thousands of orphans, thousands dead, & that damn nail salon in downtown Kabul.
The safety of women in Kashmir demands the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all Indian forces.
(Photo is screenshot of Times Now broadcast with Rahul Shivshankar on India Upfront)

Shabnam Mayet & Micheal Clinton report a successful #Black4Rohingya campaign last Saturday with 35,140 posts on Twitter, 3,770 on Facebook, & 615 on Instagram. Thank you to those who participated.

What’s happening to the Black community in the US is happening to Muslims & Dalits in India, to Kashmiris, to Palestinians, to Uyghur in China, & Rohingya wherever they are. Bonds of unity would draw attention to the extreme violence used against the oppressed & help forge an international solidarity movement to build the political power of the oppressed.

“I remain concerned by child casualties in Jammu and Kashmir and call upon the government to take preventive measures to protect children, including by ending the use of pellets against children. I am concerned by the detention of children, including their arrest during night raids, internment at army camps, torture in detention and detention without charge or due process, and urge the Government to immediately end this practice.”
–UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in 2020 annual report on Children & Armed Conflict
Text of report: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/15-June-2020_Secretary-General_Report_on_CAAC_Eng.pdf?
(Photo of Kashmiri kids with Indian soldier; photographer not identified)

“And while we slept, India killed three more young men in Shopian; in 10 days, 19 have been killed in south Kashmir encounters.”
#Kashmir
–Tweeted by Bea @HerNameIs_Bea

“India is accusing China of exactly what it did in August last year in Kashmir.”
–Tweeted by Haris Zargar @harriszargar

There’s a lot of condolences from India for the Indian soldiers killed or lost in the confrontation with China in Lakakh. There’s a lot of reproach for Modi who hasn’t yet expressed condolences for the ‘martyrs of our Indian Army’. Have those same nationalist fools uttered one word of reproach for the tens of thousands of Kashmiris killed, disabled, disappeared, tortured, raped, imprisoned by the Indian Army? Nationalism eats the soul.
Stand with Kashmiris & demand the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all Indian forces.

“How Indian liberals are so obsessed with the “development” of Kashmir despite the fact that Kashmir is economically far better compared to most provinces of India. In terms of children and women; the socio-economic indicators in education, nutrition, and education are much better, but then it’s not about development, it’s about Kashmir that dares to be Kashmir.”
–Zachriah Sulayman

So the Indian Army has one-million troops in Kashmir, a good share of them special forces commandoes, & we’re supposed to go all condemnatory against Kashmiri kids for stone pelting or even against militants for carrying guns? Let the condemnations begin when the last Indian soldier has left Kashmir. Until then, we only have time or heart to condemn the brutal occupation.