Shravan Shuddha Trayodashi
 Kashmiris protesting against India & shouting pro-Pakistan slogans |
Srinagar (J&K): The Muslim Street is rising against India, courting death to get out of it. India is responding, by shooting to kill.Blocked from even passing through the only lifeline of a highway through Jammu by rampaging mobs of Hindus demanding that the government give forest land for a Hindu shrine, the Kashmir Valley has erupted and mobs chanting ‘Azadi’ marched towards Muzaffarabad, capital of what India calls Pak-Occupied Kashmir. (Kashmiri Muslims first made violent protests against Land transfer to Hindu Temple and now they are also turning to be anti-National by chanting ‘Azadi’ and waving Pakistani flags. Such anti-Natonal people should be thrown out of India!)
Indian security troops fired on Tuesday, right into the crowd, killing 15 unarmed people. (Kashmiris were also pelting stones towards Indian troops!) They had fired on Monday too, as on Sunday, as on Saturday. So far some 50 have died in the days leading up to this scenario where a Hindu Jammu has risen against all fabricated notions of secularism propagated by the official Indian establishment. India’s right wing Hindu nationalist parties like the BJP, the VHP, the Shiv Sena continue to fan further trouble. (This is trouble is started due to anti-Hindu activities of Kashmiri Muslims, who forced Govt. to revoke order of Amarnath Land Transfer!)
All of Kashmir is now under curfew, the all-party meetings ended in fiasco, and Indian Government looked completely helpless. The curfew in entire Valley has come after 13 years.
The Amarnath shrine land issue is left behind, it is anger against India on the streets.
Reports of direct clashes between Hindu and Muslim groups have started pouring in, the last being in Jammu’s Kishtwar region, where three people were killed and 20 injured when mobs clashed.
Kashmir’s fruit growers, whose produce was rotting because government hardly moved to get highways cleared and faced with a virtual economic blockade, started marching towards PoK on the call given by Kashmiri politicians. Some 50,000 joined them.
On Monday, six people including a Hurriyat leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, had died in the police firing at Sheeri at Baramulla. Worse, when his funeral was being carried out outside the Jamia Masjid, security forces fired on protesters killing four more.
Thousands of Kashmiris are out on the streets demanding their right to sell their fruit and other produce in PoK. It is now clear is that state elections, scheduled for October, won’t be held until early next year.
Slogans of azadi are back, as are pro-Pakistan posters, some with Jinnah pictures. (This proves that Kashmiri Muslims are anti-India!) Army Troops are patrolling the streets. Relations between Hindus and Muslims deteriorated after the state government transferred 40 hectares of land to the Hindu Amarnathji Shrine Board. This was cancelled later, prompting Hindus to protest.
Kashmir is now without medicines, milk and other commodities. Fruit produce is rotting, poor Kashmiris are getting the message that because of Hindu India, they are suffering. And not many can survive on the only gift that Indian establishment is throwing at the protesters: tear gas shells in plenty.
Official Indian response is that there is no blockade on the highway linking Srinagar with Jammu and rest of india.
Both the hardline and moderate factions of the Hurriyat Conference have called on protesters to continue their march to Muzaffarabad.
Separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq were both under house arrest but large crowds surrounded the policemen deployed outside the houses and the leaders, at the urging of the crowd, walked out free and led processions to the killed Aziz’s grave. India watched helplessly. The Street Is Rising, and New Delhi doesn’t have a clue.
Source: World Sikh News
