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| Arundhati preaches sedition in NY | | Indian Constitution doesn't provide for right to self-determination | | RUSTAM
JAMMU, Nov 13: "I think that the people of Kashmir have the right to self- determination-they have the right to choose who they want to be, and how they want to be…Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world and one of the most ignored…While India brutalises Kashmir in so many ways, that occupation brutalises the Indians…It (the occupation) turns us into a people who are able to bear a kind of morally reprehensible behaviour done in our name, and the fact that so few Indians will stand up and say anything about it is such a sad thing…Why the international community doesn't see that when you have two nuclear-armed states, like Pakistan and India, there couldn't be a better thing than a buffer state like Kashmir between them, instead of it being a conflict that is going to spark a nuclear war. So little is known about the atrocities being committed by more than half a million Indian troops, the continuing repression and indignities let loose on Kashmiri men, women and children. More than 700,000 troops are concentrated in the tiny valley, with check points at every nook and corner of Kashmiri towns and cities, The huge Indian presence is in sharp contrast with 160,000 US troops in Iraq…Freedom of speech is non-existent, and human rights abuses are routine. Elections are rigged and press controlled. The lives of Kashmiris are made miserable by gun-toting security personnel, who harass and terrorise people with impunity.
Disappearances are almost a daily occurrence as also kidnapping, arrests, fake encounters and torture. Mass graves have been discovered and the conscience of the world remains unstirred. India has…successfully used the argument that if it gives up Kashmir, another Islamic state would emerge, a prospect the West feared. That's why India has made no effort to bring back to the valley the Kashmiri Pandits who fled to camps in New Delhi at the height of the 1998 uprising in the state. Aren't 7000,000 troops enough to protect the Pandits? Even as the world speaks about the Arab spring-three years ago there was massive unarmed uprising in the streets of Kashmir…The Indian army or the security forces are not looking away; they are killing young children. Kashmir is never part of India historically. Before his election, President Barack Obama had pledged to resolve the international dispute of Kashmir between Pakistan and India. But seeing 'consternation' in India over the remark, Obama hasn't said a word about Kashmir since…He is more interested in selling military aircraft and Boeings to India". This in a nutshell was the cornerstone of novelist Arundhati Roy's speech that she delivered in New York on November 11. In fact, she openly preached sedition against India during her address to an audience assembled at the invitation of Asia Society. The theme was "the case for freedom" with special reference to Kashmir.
What Arundhati Roy, who renounced Indian citizenship long ago, said was not something new. She only reiterated her old stand. She had said similar things in Kashmir, New Delhi and elsewhere in the country umpteen times. She said so in Srinagar in 2008, when the |
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