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EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 2: J&K chapter of highly controversial People's Union For Civil Liberties (PUCL), whose leadership doesn't mind rubbing shoulders with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq at Chandigardh, Srinagar and elsewhere and wants some semblance of regional autonomy for Jammu province within the autonomous Jammu & Kashmir State, has "condemned the killing of Nazim Rashid Shalla alias Anjum, a young man in Sopre on July 31 in police custody." Nothing wrong.
If the version of PUCL is correct or if what who have caused a stir in sopore area said on the issue are correct, then everyone should come forward and denounce and condemn the police action. Human rights of innocent unarmed civilians are sacrosanct and these need to be protected and promoted at any cost. Hence, the Jammu-based PUCL leader is right when he urges the authorities to treat "this case as exemplary" and demand "punishment to set an example" so that no such incident takes place in the state in future.
However, the question is: Is the PUCL a genuine outfit concerned with the human rights of common people? It is not. It is basically an outfit whose only duty it is to speak when the state takes action against the subversives, anti-state actors, merchants of death and destruction and those who attack railways, police stations, army cantonments, school buses and other soft targets to further their evil designs. And, when it speaks it only pours venom on the institution of the Indian State, on the law and order authorities and on those responsible for the unity and integrity of India. It has been doing so in the militant and separatist-infested Jammu and Kashmir since the early 1990, when the Pakistani-sponsored secessionist and communal violence engulfed parts of Kashmir province.
It was the same PUCL that had come out with an outrageous and lop-sided report in April 1990 on the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir. It was not a report. It was an attack on the Indian State and the then State Governor Jagmohan. The report had nothing whatever against those who had raised a banner of revolt against India. Nor did the report contain any reference in the real sense of the term to the mass migration of the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley. On the other hand, the report defended the anti-state actors, subversives, secessionists, communalists, terrorists, killers, butchers and enemies of humanity to the hilt saying the PUCL was concerned only with what it called, and continues to call, the "state terror."
It bears recalling that it was almost at the same time that the permanent chairman of the J&K chapter of PUCL had suggested in the Jammu Coffee House, presently Press Club of Jammu, that "if the people in Jammu have the freedom to raise such slogans as Hindustan Zindabad, the people here in Jammu should also have the liberty to raise such slogan as Hindustan Murdabad." It had happened on May 2, 1990 and the one who had made that outrageous suggestion had to flee from the venue to escape the nationalist ire. In fact, it was because of the intervention of persons like former DG of police MM Khajuria that the so-called champion of human rights and PUCL leader could escape the people's ire. He needed a cover and Khajuria and a couple of other persons came to his rescue.
It is important to note that the outfits like PUCL, which are supported and funded by forces inimical to India, have at no point of time criticized the Maoist terrorists and those in Kashmir who have been seeking separations from India on purely religious grounds and those taking recourse to violent methods to achieve their objective. The make vague statements when they speak about Maoist terrorists or Islamic terrorists. The fact is that such organizations are virtually hand-in-glove with the extremists and separatists. There is no difference whatever between the PUCL leadership and the likes of Arundhati Roy, Gautam Navlakha, Barbara Rao and so on. All of them belong to the same school of thought. They are not concerned with the miserable plight of 1.5 lakh refugees who have been crying for justice and demanding citizenship rights in Jammu since decades. Nor are they concerned with the people of Jammu province who have been suffering enormous socio-economic and politico-administrative losses since 1947 at the hands of the Kashmiri leadership. They are concerned only with the human rights of those who have been violating the human rights of the innocent unarmed Indians and seeking to subvert the Indian State in the name of "human rights."
It's not surprising that the outfits like the PUCL, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are looked down upon by the people across the country and denounced as "agents of anti-India forces." |
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