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| Movements in Libya-Bahrain for constitutional rights, Movement in Kashmir secessionist | | Wrong Comparison | |
STARK REALITY
RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 17: The dictatorial regimes in Libya and Bahrain have let loose a reign of senseless brutalities against those demanding constitutional rights. In Libya, hundreds and hundreds of protestors have been shot dead in cold blood during the past over four weeks and the regime continues to maim and butcher everyone including men, women and children, who is demanding the overthrow of the dictatorial regime and fighting for his/her civil and economic rights. The situation in Bahrain is no different. Bahrain is witnessing a movement that has been engineered by the majority Shiite community against minority dictatorial regime of the Sunni Muslims. The stated goals of those who have engineered the revolt in Bahrain are two. One is that the Shiite Muslims want to oust the Sunni regime. The other is that the Shiite Muslims want a system of governance guarantees civil, political and economic rights. None of the movements in Libya and Bahrain is against the institution of the state. These are against the system of governance. Earlier in February this year, Tunisia and Egypt witnessed identical movements. Such was the nature of the mass upsurge in these countries against the dictatorial regimes that both the dictators had to yield. Several other countries in the Arab world are witnessing people’s movements against the dictatorial regimes and there are reasons to believe that the next few days would witness the collapse of several dictatorial regimes.
There are commentators in Kashmir and their one or two supporters in Jammu who have been virtually equating New Delhi with the dictatorial regimes in Libya and Bahrain and accusing the authorities of “denying political space to the victims (in this case Kashmiri Muslim) of repression seeking to assert their supposedly constitutional right to be left alone to live their own lives.” They are making a wrong comparison. How could they equate the fundamentally communal and anti-state movement in Kashmir with the anti-dictator movements in Libya and Bahrain?
These commentators need to take a serious cognizance of what the separatists in Kashmir have done between 1989 and till date to push forward their communal and separatist agenda. They must remember that the separatists in Kashmir have been convulsing and blooding the Indian political scene, particularly since 1987. Between 1987 and till date, they have attacked the Army, paramilitary forces and State police innumerable times and killed and maimed thousands of our troops and police personnel. They have liquidated thousands of civilians, including men, women and children. As a result, many women have lost their husbands, many children have become orphaned and the entire social structure has crumbled. As a result, a sense of helplessness, insecurity and uncertainty has gripped the people of the state.
They have attacked on umpteen occasions school buses carrying innocent students and massacred many of them. They have vitiated all the educational institutions in the Valley, including the universities, where anti-India elements are reigning supreme. They have caused bomb blasts in several marriage parties and killed hundreds and hundreds of people who gathered on such solemn occasions. Jammu province in general and its erstwhile Doda district in particular suffered the most on this count. They have brutally murdered hundreds and hundreds of political workers as well as a few top-ranking separatists like Abdul Gani Lone.
The Kashmiri separatists and other radical elements have forcibly evicted the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley, forced hundreds and hundreds of the Sikh families to migrate from the Valley and the process goes on even today unabated. They have converted Kashmir into a one-community region. They have, in fact, disturbed the socio-religious and political equilibrium in the state, thus creating tensions between the communities and regions. They have been disrupting economic and social activities in the state in general and Kashmir in particular at regular intervals.
It is also a no secret: They have been consistently attacking the symbols of the Indian State and organizing in Kashmir rabidly anti-India demonstrations. They have converted the religious places into dens of anti-India activities and they have been carrying on hate-India, break-India and anti-minority community campaigns under the very nose of the authorities, some of them even overtly supporting them by making controversial statements, including statements that question the very accession of the state to India and castigate and demonize the institution of the Army and paramilitary forces. The attitude of the authorities in New Delhi has been no different. They have been issuing statements at regular intervals which have been, instead of making the separatists behave, further emboldening them to queer the Indian pitch in Kashmir. In fact, the policy being pursued by the authorities in New Delhi towards the separatists in Kashmir is one of incremental surrenders. So much so that the Prime Minister has come out with a strange formulation and his formulation is: “Neighbours cannot be changed but the borders can be rendered irrelevant.” They are behaving as if they represent a colonial power and Kashmir is a colony that wants independence from India. In other words, he has devised a solution to the so-called Kashmir problem, which, if accepted, would negate the very idea of the Indian State and enable the separatists in Kashmir to accomplish what they have failed to accomplish so far. The fact of the matter is that the authorities in the state and New Delhi treat the separatists and criminals with kid gloves. So much so that these separatists, who have created an environment that is conducive for the rise of radical ideology, have been provided with a foolproof security cover, even Z-plus.
It is also not a secret: The Kashmiri separatists have been hobnobbing with foreign diplomats, holding anti-India seminars in and outside the state, including the country’s capital New Delhi, and using international forums to pour venom on India and blacken the face of the Indian nation beyond recognition. They have been openly advocating the Pakistani cause, notwithstanding the fact that Pakistan is on the brink of ruins because of the unholy alliance among the Pakistani establishment, the Army, the ISI and dreaded militant outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba against the Pakistani civil society and notwithstanding the fact that Islamabad has made it loud and clear that it is interested in the state waters and not in the people of Kashmir.
Not just this, the separatists in Kashmir have been openly instigating the gullible Kashmiri Muslims to take the law of the land into their hand so that in the process they get killed and they are able to play with the sentiments of the people and cause more unrest. They have raised battalions of drug edicts and anti-social elements and they have done so to use them against the Indian State. In fact, they are instigating the innocent Kashmiri Muslims to confront the Army, paramilitary forces and the State Police and their objective always is to create a situation that forces the security personnel to react. Our security forces seldom act because they have been asked to fight insurgency with their hands cuffed, legs cuffed and brain-cuffed. They only react in self-defence and when they react, they only face the official wrath. Sometimes they are booked under the charge of murder.
And, remember, the number of separatist leaders, who have played, and continue to play, havoc with the state and the nation, is not very substantial. Their number is not even two dozens. They can be counted on fingers. Their area of influence is also rather limited. It is limited to a few pockets in the Kashmir Valley. To be more precise, they do not enjoy any popular support and still they have been allowed to carry on their subversive and anti-humanity activities.
This is the difference between the approach of the dictatorial regimes in the Middle East towards those demanding end of dictatorship and constitutional guarantees and attitude of the authorities in the state and New Delhi towards those who wish to wreck the Indian Nation. It would be fair to say that the Indian State is at war with itself and the Indian civilization. Will the Kashmir-centric and separatist-friendly commentators in Kashmir review their formulations taking into consideration the difference between the movement in Kashmir and the ongoing movements in the Arab World? Similarly, will the authorities in New Delhi rise to the occasion and defend the unity and territorial integrity of India by taking on and defeating comprehensively the separatists in Kashmir? They must. It is their paramount duty.
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