Pellet munitions are trucked by convoys into Kashmir from India where they are dispensed to police & counterinsurgency troops. This collage of pellet victims is from the 2016 uprising when the Indian occupying army went on a rampage. The photos show the scale of facial injuries & disfigurement caused by pellets. Even though they are called non-lethal, they are clearly intended to inflict maximum harm, including to children, by blinding, disfiguring, injury to internal organs, lifelong pain & health problems, demoralization, & death.
Stand with Kashmiris in demanding the end of pellet guns & the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all Indian troops. End the occupation. Self-determination for Kashmir.
Before their humanitarian role with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh at the peak of the 2017-2018 genocidal onslaught, I knew nothing about the Sikhs. Now again they are playing an exemplary role in helping Kashmiris escape pogroms in India. It seems the least we can do to honor them is to learn more about them & try to emulate their respect & love for all humankind.
Syrian civilians in Hama province (just south of Idlib province) fleeing from intensified rocket & artillery fire by the Assad regime & Iranian-backed militias. At least twenty towns & villages in the province are under escalated fire, causing many civilian deaths & large-scale civilian displacement. Or do Assad’s propagandists Beeley & Bartlett again claim these are only “crisis actors” mugging for the camera as they did injured & traumatized civilians in Eastern Ghouta?
A war-traumatized child from Idlib, Syria during aerial bombardment by Syrian & Russian war planes & artillery fire from the Syrian army & Iranian-backed militias. Some dare call this liberation. Those with antiwar principles call this genocide & the destruction of a revolution against dictatorship.(Photo by
A brief history of blackface in America. For those who don’t see Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” as a classic of the white savior genre in literature & cinema, he was a devotee of the minstrel show.
Israeli news reporter speaks truth about how soldiers are changed by involvement in occupation–as true in Palestine as in Kashmir, all US & European wars & other wars, occupations, genocides. Those who care about the humanity of soldiers call for the end of occupation & war.
Those clamoring for a humanitarian US intervention in Syria & Venezuela should pay close attention to the conduct of Indian troops in Kashmir. War crimes against civilians are the very nature of war & occupation. That shouldn’t have to be explained to anyone with a computer.
“Dear revanchist mobs, we heard all your SLOGANEERING, its okay, we will bring our “children in your colleges” back to KASHMIR But would you also take your “children in uniform” back to INDIA? Guess what, we all will live happily ever after. #JustAsking”
