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NIRBHAY JAMMUAL
Jammu, july 14: People continue to protest against rape and murder of two women in Shopian. People continue to take to the streets protesting against a couple of custodial killings. People have fought pitched battles with police when four youths were killed in police firing in Sopore. It is declared curfew restrictions today. It is undeclared curfew restrictions the next day in the Kashmir valley. Normal life stands paralysed in the valley during the last over one month. It is unrest all over the valley. The reason may be genuine or invariably people protest without any tangible reason. The Government is unnerved. The state administration is worried. The central Government is perturbed.
This is all the result of fears that peoples’ sustained protests may create added probelms for the state Government and the centre. When several thousand civlians stage protest demonstrations it is very difficult to control the protesters. The security forces cannot afford to open fire. Even tear smoke or lathicharge may not prove effective in controlling angry demonstrators. Well people showed strength in staging protest demonstrations in Srinagar during the night hours the other day when word spread,that too like wild fire, that CRPF personnel had entered into a mosque. The protest rallies were held against what people wer e led to believe that the mosque had been desecrated. Police watched the situation like passive spectators. Ruling coalition leaders could do nothing but pray for peace. And peace returned when people came to know that no mosque had been desecrated by the CRPF jawans. The story was deliberately circulated to set Kashmir on fire.
Why such tricks are being played to destabilise peace ?Well informed top security and intelligence officials have stated that separatists and their supporters have received messages from across the border that if Kashmir continued to witness massive peoples' protest rallies Islamabad would persuade the US Government to seek UN intervention. The separatists are believed to have been told that once the United Nations agreed to intervene the UN recommendations or the report may create a situation in which India would be forced either to grant greater autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir or accept the four-point proposal on Kashmir dished out by former Pakistan President, Gen.Parvez Musharraf. Musharraf has stated that demilitarisation, open borders, joint management could pave the way for final settlement of the Kashmir issue.
When militancy took roots from July 1988 onwards people in the valley were told by agencies across the border that Pakistan would intervene by sending its troops to attack the Indian border guards so that Kashmir was liberated within one week to one month. It is on the basis of these reports that majority of people, including the workers of the mainstream political parties, took part in what is called Jehad. Teenagers crossed the border for receiving arms training. They infiltrated into Jammu Kashmir and indulged in subversive violence. When people found that neither the Pakistani Army had intervened nor Azadi was round the corner they felt disillusioned. This was the main reason that since 1992 there was marked drop in peoples' participation in Jehad.
Since peoples' participation in rallies can be more dangerous than the activities of militants time has come for the ruling coalition to initiate measures for removing those factors that incite people to violence. Time has come when the ruling coalition needs to show results, results in the shape of resolving public problems and grievances. It is not the time for the congressmen and those belonging to the National Conference to cry against the non-inclusion of their legislators in the cabinet. The leaders of the ruling coalition need to learn that canards are more dangerous than the cannons. Let them arise and awake to counter these canards.
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