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| Civil society members or separatists and mercenaries | | Unholy intervention in Kashmir Movement | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 4: Who says the so-called Arya Samajist Swami Agnivesh, Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan, “author” Geeta Hariharan, Meena Menon, film maker Syed Mirza, journalist Zahir Ali Khan and the so-called JNU professors Kamal Mitra Chinoy and Anuradha Chinoy are members of civil society? They are not. They are essentially sympathizers and supporters of those who have been seeking to dismember India since decades. Most of them, particularly Agnivesh, Kamal Mitra Chinoy, to mention only a couple of them, are always seen in the company of Kashmiri separatists. As for others, they are well known supporters of Kashmiri separatists.
Not only this, they and similar other perverted members of the Indian civil society always come to the forefront when the law and order authorities take action against the Maoist terrorists or the ULFA terrorists and separatists, and even the Khalistanis, when the murder innocent civilians and CRPF personnel-on-duty in cold blood or when they blast trains and kidnap innocent people, including government employees. They are so irrational and so perverted that they never see reason. So much so that they distort things, paint things in lurid colours and paint the Indian State black, oppressive and barbarian. They extend their unflinching support to the terrorists, separatists and rank communalists; they defend all of their anti-state and anti-civil society actions and they hold the Indian State responsible for forcing them to recourse to extremist methods to achieve what they call their legitimate goal: Separation of Jammu and Kashmir on religious grounds and the establishment of the Maoists’ rule in the country. They defend the use of the gun as a political weapon to push forward their anti-democratic agenda.
They have turned so irrational and biased that they do not consider the victims of terrorism, communalism and separatism as victims. The case in point is the persecution of the Kashmiri Hindus and their wholesale exodus from their original habitat in 1990. They have no time to meet these abandoned victims of terrorism. Nor do they have any time to visit Jammu, the land of refugees – all victims of terrorism, communalism and the pernicious two-nation theory. Remember, Jammu houses more than 1.5 million refugees, including refugees from West Pakistan, POJK and Kashmir – all moving heaven and earth since decades to obtain justice and seek proper rehabilitation.
It would be no exaggeration to say that they are not members of the civil society. The genuine members of the civil society never side with the murderers, unruly elements, or with those who attack the institution of the state and the symbols of the country and the Indian civilization. They side with the victims and not with the law-breakers and murderers. In a way, they are no more than mercenaries, who are masquerading as members of civil society, as trouble-shooters, as human rights champions, as conflict managers and as rational and compassionate human beings.
That they, who are part of the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Analysis (CPA), are ardent supporters of the Kashmiri separatists and communalists and those who take the law of the land into their cruel hands could be seen from what they said yesterday at Srinagar. They -- who met the separatists like Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik, Bilal Gani Lone, G N Bhat and Sajad Gani Lone before meeting the press in order to seek “their suggestions and opinions” ---, among other things, said: “We are seriously examining the possibility of filing an application in the Supreme Court, especially against the detention of president (Mian Abdul Qayoom and general secretary (G M Shaheen) of the (Kashmir) bar association and the killing of 118 people. We will certainly be exploring the possibility of moving the court on at least these two issues…We realize that a large number of people have been booked under the anti-people and anti-democratic PSA and enemy agents ordinance. Laws like these and AFSPA have no place in the democratic society…Under these laws, many people have been killed in custody or subjected to enforced disappearance. All these cases need to be probed by a judicial commission. The guilty must be punished…Kashmir is a political problem which needs to be solved through dialogue…The one positive is that to a large extent it is clear to the civil society that Kashmir movement is indigenous, as against the earlier held view that it was Pakistan instigated or backed by militant groups like LeT. The other good thing is that people outside realize that Kashmiris shall be given space for peaceful protests like it is provided in any other state of India…We will go back and work more for it. We will also strongly press for a judicial probe into the killing of 118 people last year. We will both legally and in human rights quarters raise the issue of detention of bar association president and its general secretary…”
Besides, they denounced the Public Safety Act (PSA) and AFSPA, made common cause with the biased and controversial Amnesty International and dubbed these laws as “anti-people” and “illegal.” having “no place in the democratic society.”
What does all this show? The answer is not far to seek. What is the Government of India doing to rein such dubious characters? It is not doing anything. On the contrary, one can catalogue here several examples to show that there are elements in the establishment who hold these dubious characters in high esteem and use their services as negotiators. Agnivesh has on a number of occasions acted as a negotiator. Such things can happen only in India, which is slowly but surely assuming the character of a banana republic.
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