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| Secessionist and communal violence in Kashmir | | Human Rights Champions | | Rustam
JAMMU, Aug 31: India is passing through critical times as far as its sovereignty and territorial integrity is concerned. This grave situation is the handiwork of certain external and internal forces actively working against the unity and integrity of India.
One can understand the ulterior motive of Pakistan and the Kashmiri secessionists behind the upsurge in Kashmir. But one fails to understand the real motive of the so-called human rights associations like the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), the Citizens for Democracy (CFD), the Radical Humanist Association (RHA), the Manav Ekta Abhiyan (MEA) and similar other associations and their leaders. The reports they produced from time to time have shaken all patriotic Indians. Their reports are nothing but an affront to the nationalist Indians and to the Indian State. These reports deserve outright rejection and condemnation by all right thinking people.
The so-called human rights champions appear to have openly joined the secessionists and pro-Pakistani elements in denouncing the policy of the Indian State and in supporting their demands of "independence and not Pakistan". Arundhati Roy and Gautam Navlakha are just two among them. Their views on the handling of the Kashmir situation are identical with those expressed repeatedly by the Pakistan Government and its print and electronic media, Kashmiri separatists, and even some "mainstream" Kashmiri leaders. Pakistan has, undoubtedly, found in the persons of human rights champions a stick to beat India with and malign the Indian nation in the eyes of the international community. Those who watch Pakistani television know the use Pakistani media has been making of the reports brought out and statements made by the so-called human rights champions.
It may appear unbelievable but it is a fact that in 1990 a certain section of the Kashmir bureaucracy, including a few senior IAS officials, had made use of the findings of the "human rights champions" in the memorandum it submitted to the "Citizens of World". The bureaucracy had openly sought the intervention and support of the "World Opinion" for achieving political emancipation from India. It needs to be emphasized that the memorandum contained details of the "atrocities" alleged to have been committed upon the Kashmiri Muslims by the paramilitary forces during Jagmohan's second tenure of four months, between January and May 1990. Girish Chandra Saxena replaced Jagmohan as Governor of the trouble-torn State in May 1990.
Virtually no action against the erring officials emboldened certain pro-Pakistani elements and subversives operating in the most vulnerable border districts of Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu province to fan communalism, separatism and hatred between the communities. "Loudspeakers of high intensity had been fitted in many of the religious places at several government buildings, especially schools." Through these loudspeakers anti-India and pro-Pakistan slogans were blared. Propaganda was also made using cassettes containing highly inflammatory and provocative speeches and slogans. The reports of some Indian forces like the PUCL and other such human rights organizations had made the task of the pro-Pakistani elements quite easy. Indeed, the reports of the human rights champions have encouraged militancy in the state and complicated the already rather complex situation in the state. The human rights champions have not deviated from their path. They continue to flirt and hobnob with Kashmiri separatists and Pakistan and shamelessly say that they are concerned only with what they call "state terror." They do not criticize the terrorists and subversives. They sympathize with them.
To be more precise, their whole approach is loop-sided and biased. It is ironical that the custodians of the Indian State have, instead of taking on these sympathizers and supports of separatists and communalists, accorded a kind of legitimacy to what they write, say and produce in the form of anti-India reports. The government must consider the possibility of banning the so-called human rights associations, which are spreading misinformation and painting the otherwise liberal Indian nation black. It would be a crime against man and god to call these sympathizers and supports of secessionists as human rights activists. They are not. Most of them are no more than mercenaries and they are minting easy money by working against the Indian nation. So much so, they shamelessly blame Jagmohan for the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus. |
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