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| Kalpana, like other pro-separatists, also feels ashamed | | Execution of Guru | | Neha
JAMMU, Feb 19: The execution of Parliament terror attack case convict and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) operative Azal Guru has shamed supporters of Kashmiri separatists and fundamentalists. Guru was hanged after a thorough investigation and fair trial, as also after giving Guru and his supporters all the opportunities available under the criminal justice system to defend the criminal, who planned/masterminded Parliament terror attack in collaboration with dreaded JeM. Ever since his execution on February 9, supporters of Kashmiri separatists have been writing anti-India essays and saying they feel ashamed of being Indians. Two such supporters of Kashmiri separatists are Kalpana Tikoo (Managing Trustee of ARNIMAAL, Valley-based voluntary organization) and Happymon Jacob (teacher in a Delhi-based university and a close associate of former Jammu University Vice-Chancellor Amitabh Mattoo).
Tikoo and Jacob, like others of their ilk, felt so ashamed after the hanging of terrorist, who had planned to blast Indian Parliament and wipe out entire Indian leadership on December 13, 2001, that they penned down their pain and apologized to the Guru's family. Penning down her pain, Tikoo, inter-alia, thus wrote: "For a strange reason, I suddenly feel ashamed. I can't somehow face my dear Kashmiri Muslim friends. It feels like an assault on their helplessness…Feb 9, 2013, the day when Afzal Guru is 'hanged until death' will go down forever in the memory of Kashmiris. Feb 9, 2013: India rejoices as 'justice' is delivered. Sweets are being exchanged, Firecrackers deafen your ears and smug expressions of victory are visible all over National TV Channels. The entire day the media is running stock videos of Afzal Guru and debating his execution…There are questions which loom large and which need to be answered…India has knowingly or unknowingly burnt bridges with Kashmiris for another few decades…The execution of Afzal Guru has given birth to an entire new generation of revolutionaries…The Indian Government, in an attempt to please and satisfy the 'collective conscience' of a nation, has created a dormant volcano in Kashmir…The Fault lines are visible…People (Kashmiris) feel cheated, wronged, helpless, humiliated and they have every reason to believe so…Kashmir feels alienated like never before… One can feel the depression in the air. The entire valley is in mourning…
The entire country needs to bow down to Kashmiris for the injustice done to them. However, there are a few thoughts which have been nagging me since then. Are we in some way responsible for this utterly shameful incident? I, on my part, regret the fact that I never paid much attention to this case or took it seriously. But is it just me, or does the entire Valley needs to feel ashamed for letting him down? There are some questions we need to ask ourselves and look within. If we do not do this now, perhaps there would be another Afzal going to the gallows another day. Today he is dead and no more but while he was alive, why didn't we protest against his possible hanging. All we are left with is a painful memory now".
And penning down his pain and his being feeling ashamed, Jacob, inter-alia, thus wrote: "As an Indian, empathizer of the Kashmiri cause for self-respect and azadi and a staunch believer in the fundamental rights of fellow humans and a teacher whose job it is to teach my students that human rights should supersede petty and parochial political interests, I apologize to the family of Afzal Guru who has been put to death by the medieval mindset of the Indian state. I am ashamed and feel a deep sense of guilt for the manner in which the Indian state has gone about hanging Afzal Guru, in flagrant violation of all norms of natural justice and due process laid down in law.
I am not a Kashmiri, nor do I live in Kashmir. But my relationship with Kashmir is based on my conviction that Kashmir is symbolic of everything that is wrong with the Indian state. In other words, to see what is wrong with the idea of India, one only needs to look at the predicament of Kashmir and Kashmiris . Kashmiris have been accused of being terrorists, supporters of an 'enemy state', killed and buried in 'unmarked graves', and denied the right to freely move around in the rest of the country, among many other things. And successive governments of India have had a role to play in creating this predicament for the people of Kashmir. I also apologise to the people of Kashmir whose normal lives are shut down by the state and central governments at the slightest whiff of trouble even when the troubles themselves are a creation of those in power. You have had to suffer the consequences of the numerous misdeeds and lack of political wisdom of the governments. I simply can't fathom how killing one of you (Afzal Guru) in such a hasty and irresponsible manner can 'satisfy the collective conscience of the Indian nation'! The UPA government seems to assume that the Indian citizens are thirsting for the blood of Kashmiris in order to achieve a sense of collective wellbeing: no, we are not…The fact is, like you all, we also wish that our government focused on the need to put in place systems and mechanisms so that we are not randomly killed, looted, raped, falsely arrested etc. rather than go about accusing people of being terrorists on flimsy grounds and then kill them on even filmsier ones. Please don't blame us for our government's lack of political imagination though you can blame us for electing governments such as this".
One may try his/her level best to find if these apologists have even once in their nasty and motivated essays referred to what the terrorists had planned to do to the Indian State in 2001 or to other such terror attacks launched on India after 1987 one will come out of his/her exercise minus everything. On the other hand, one would find these "secular fundamentalists" and friends of separatists and terrorists abusing India and eulogizing those who have been seeking to wreck the Indian state and establish in Jammu & Kashmir a theocratic and fascist regime. It must remain a matter of shame for them. |
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