Mary Scully Reports

As Shabir Wani has pointed out, there are a lot of things we miss about Kashmiris on Facebook: their humor, in-depth knowledge, acumen, expertise, sharpening skills; also their sharp polemics, insights, indignation. But the thing we miss most of all is their political leadership.

Kashmiri human rights investigators & activists play an international role in campaigning against the use of forcible disappearance used by up to 50 countries & they are recognized for that role by families of the disappeared around the world. Kashmiri feminists, along with Mayan women, play a leading role in exposing & campaigning against the use of mass rape, sexual torture & humiliation used by armies as a weapon of war & genocide. Kashmiri human rights organizations investigate human rights crimes by the Indian Army & rigorously document them. Despite being under a brutal occupation, they always protested in solidarity with others, including Palestinians, Rohingya, Syrians, Central African Republic, & others on the front lines of oppression as well as protested against pellet guns, the suppression of a free press, & other human rights crimes by the Indian Army.

From the courage of their working class stone pelters & protesters to the undaunted commitment of senior leaders like 90-year-old Syed Ali Geelani, they educated human rights fighters around the world. They took advantage of social media to educate about their struggle & build international support. That’s the reason India repeatedly snapped the internet & now has completely shut down all telecommunications in Kashmir. The intention is to humiliate Kashmiris & bring them to their knees but mostly to prevent them from inspiring, educating, leading the oppressed around the world. The political leadership shown & groundwork laid by Kashmiri activists has made India’s genocidal move a massive political blunder because all of Kashmiri’s painstaking work has led to the internationalization of their struggle with thousands marching around the world in solidarity & #BoycottIndia in formation.

Showing that India & Israel draw from the same cesspool for genocidal strategies, just after India disenfranchised two-million Muslims in the state of Assam as ‘illegal aliens’, Israel declared Palestinians who move from the bombing zone of Gaza to the West Bank as ‘illegal aliens’. So much for a bantustate solution, the so-called two-state solution. This is all sanctioned by the Oslo Accords which legitimize occupation & expropriation. The Accords must be overthrown along with any Palestinian leaders who endorse or enforce them for Israel & the US.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-admits-attempt-to-prevent-gazans-from-settling-in-west-bank-1.7834522?fbclid=IwAR0PLdt1y_cFsTS5D23i-7OQ6jPTD9GeyXF5a5QBx05dmLR1xdHPMdzjr6U

Birmingham, UK #StandWithKashmir counter-protest to a Hindutva gathering, Saturday, September 14th, 2019.

Posting every #StandWithKashmir rally may be overwhelming but it’s important for us to know the scale & stamina of the movement as well as being an archival way for Kashmiris now under siege to learn that their struggle has been internationalized, which means personalized to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Not to mention, that links are being forged with other freedom struggles like the Palestinian & Rohingya struggles for self-determination which will strengthen all their struggles by unity.

#BoycottIndia #EndTheOccupation

Geneva, Switzerland #StandWithKashmir rally, Thursday, September 19th, 2019.

Punjab, India #StandWithKashmir protest.

Tariq Ali, who supports the Assad dictatorship & has not made a peep of objection to Syrian & Russian military strategy of deliberately, barbarically, & illegally bombing hospitals & medical personnel in Idlib will be giving a talk on medieval Islamic medicine. Hippocrates weeps.

Meanwhile, Physicians for Human Rights have “rigorously corroborated & documented violations by all combatants since the beginning of the Syrian conflict. From March 2011 through August 2019, PHR corroborated 583 attacks on at least 350 separate health facilities as well as the killing of 912 medical personnel. And these are conservative estimates — the true scale of the slaughter is likely greater. Our documentation indicates that 525 attacks — 91 percent — were perpetrated by the Syrian government and its allies.”

Portland, Oregon #StandWithKashmir rally, September 7th 2019.

The silence of the UN on forced sterilization is a given. Actually, it’s more a matter of UN collusion. What’s important is that China is forcibly sterilizing Uyghur women. That means women who go in for a routine examination or D&C procedure will be sterilized without their knowledge or consent. It is a form of racist genocide practiced by population control programs against Black, Latina, Native American, & disabled women in the US for nearly a hundred years; against women in African countries, among the poor & marginalized everywhere, & quite egregiously in India. It will be only a matter of time before India introduces forced sterilization to Kashmiri women & the only thing to prevent that will be defeating the colonial occupation.

https://tibettruth.com/2019/09/02/un-women-staying-silent-as-china-forcibly-sterilizes-uyghur-women-in-detention-centers/?