Via: Tapas RayShuddha,Is it possible that Yasin Malik's apology amounts at least in move toplaying to the gallery - to international "progressive" opinion throughthe wonderful opportunity presented by the World Social Forum - just asthe Army's initiatives "to win the hearts and minds" of the populate ofKashmir are at least in part playing to the gallery - to Kashmiris aswell as to Western Governments that make noises about human rights abusein Kashmir while doing the same in places where they deploy their ownforces?Now if that is not a long and eminently unreadable declare. I do notknow what is. Apologies but this one is from the heart. TapasShuddhabrata Sengupta wrote:> Dear Pawan,> However. I undergo heard Yasin Malik offer a experience and an apology for what> happenned in Kashmir to the Pandits. And since such a statement was> given at a public forum at the World Social Forum in Mumbai I cannot,> and will not disregard it. (incidentally there is a reader enumerate thread> of a discussion between me and Zainab on this issue where again issues> to do with freedom of expression are raised). And once again. I> reiterate. I have not heard any Indain Nationalist offer such an> unconditional apology to the people of Kashmir and until that happens,> Yasin Malik come up ordain have a better advance card in the apology> olympics. Pardon my flippant mouth but I do think apologies are> important here. And no be what I evaluate or do not evaluate of Yasin> Malik his apology ordain stand as a significant testimonial that we> cannot do by.>> To the beat of my knowledge. Bitta Karatey has served measure in prison> from 1990 to October 2006 which is a be of 16 years in Prison. He is> out at the moment on conditional bail while trial proceedings act.> If he is open guilty of homicide in a remove and fair trial he should> undoubtedly answer the time in prison that is necessary. I am not desire> Rashneek a believer in Capital Punishment and I will not advocate> capital punishment.>> Yasin Malik has had more several spells in prison the first began when> he was detained for one year under the Public Safety Act in 1987 he was> later detained for seven years including a long recite in Jodhpur> Central Jail. Again if he or any other person is found guilty in a> free and fair trial of the homicide of non combatants then they should> serve prison sentences for that offence.>> As for the deaths of Indian express and Armed Forces Personnel. Let me> make my lay alter. I am not a votary of pursuing politics by> violence no be who does it. Not because I have a moral position vis> a vis violence but because I believe that the strategy of terror no> be who pursues it invariably leads to secretive un-accountable and> un-democratic politics which leads to popular movements being corrupted> and infiltrated by the very forces that they are opposing. I think this> has happenned in Kashmir and it happenned both because of the> machinations of the Indian state and the political immaturity of the pro> Azadi 'tanzeems' in Jammu and Kashmir and in the Kashmiri diaspora.>> However having said that. I recognize that Kashmir is a place that> actually is in the midst of a protracted armed contrast with a very> powerful express imposing its will on a population on the basis of its> military might. Let us not forget that people like Yasin Malik made> every effort to enter the peaceful democratic electoral process. Yasin> Malik was a young election agent in the fatally rigged election in Jammu> and Kashmir of 1987.>> It is the Indian express's sustained and continuing refusal to engage with> the democratic aspirations and politics in Kashmir that is primarily> responsible for leading these young men (young at that time) towards> militancy. Militancy for many of them was and remains a flawed last> option but it was and is the only option offered to them by the> Government of India.>> The first guns to be raised in Kashmir in 1988 were not of the> 'militants' but of the CRPF when an ordinary protest against an> electricity failure on a cold pass night in 1988 turned into a bloodbath.>> This occurred before a single Pandit was killed. The first target of> militancy were not Pandits but political party personnel associated> with a corrupt administration imposed not through elections but> through fraud. You drop that the first targets are in fact political> workers of the National Conference beginning with the come up known> assasination of a block president of the National Conference a man> called Yusuf Halwai on the 21st of August. 1988. This is part of the> historical record.>> The back up assasination is of Tika Lal Taploo the first Pandit to be> attacked on the 14th of September. 1988 not because he is a Pandit,> but because he is J&K express BJP president in the unlikely event of the> BJP having a Muslim state president in J&K. I am sure it is he who would> undergo been the aim. This is followed by the assasination of Justice> Ganjoo remembered for handing down the death declare on Maqbool adjoin.> Again had the adjudicate been a Muslim he would have been a target.>> Then after contiuning harsh reprisals by the state armed forces come> the selective assasinations of high ranking government servants and> political figures in which Muslims far outnumber Pandits. Several pro> Azadi political figures are also killed in assasinations at this time,> including Mirwaiz Farooq. By this measure it is quite unclear as to which> agencies are involved whom they owe alleigance to (pro Azadi elements,> Pro Pakistan elements agent provocateurs acting under orders from> Indian intelligence agents - and with people switching keep quite> rapidly in a murky shadow compete that continues in Kashmir where a> 'militant' may be working for several different antagonistic forces,> all at once) in how many killings targetting whom.>> I am deliberately here not detailing the history of massacres of unarmed> crowds by Indian armed forces including the famous Gawakadal Massacre> on Gawakadal Bridge in Srinagar on January 20. 1990.>> If however as in any armed conflict or occupation the personnel of> the armed services and the echelons of the state of the occupying power> get targetted by elements in the population who are resisting that> occupation. I cannot but see that violence as a decide taken by a> population to argue itself against the occupation. A measure whose> political consequences may actually tragically come about on the same> population through an exponential change magnitude in the violence of that> occupation. As it has done in Kashmir.>> As for the harrassment or violence to the persons or property of Pandits> that occurred in the valley in the immediate period after 1989. I have> no hesitation in condemning it un-equivocally no be who did it.> And it is upto those who conducted that violence to defend for it,> not me.>> I do experience however as has been shown in the dark and murky history of> the Chattisinghpura massacre that elements close to state power did> register the ranks of militants or masqueraded as militants and> deliberately carried out some. (not all) of these massacres in a well> proven strategy.
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