A 92-year old man’s body was rudely snatched from his people and forcibly buried without traditional rituals. Some are saying the state is insecure. I say the state is evil.
The Honourable Supreme Court has given its verdict on the Ayodhya issue. This verdict shouldn’t be seen as a win or loss for anybody.
Be it Ram Bhakti or Rahim Bhakti, it is imperative that we strengthen the spirit of Rashtra Bhakti.
May peace and harmony prevail!
“Jinnah”—the empty signifier of all the miserable intellectual failings of Indian nationalism. “Jinnah”—who must now bear the burden of India’s calculated and entirely self-cultivated descent into fascism. Jinnah won’t be smiling, but he will say: you haven’t changed one bit.
According to Reporters Without Borders, India’s press freedom rank is 142 in 2020. Kuwait is 109, Myanmar is 139. You don’t have democracy, just the delusion.
We can question our government. Can you question yours? It's called a democracy. And that is what nationalism truly is. To raise uncomfortable questions, that I'd love to hear from you on trampling of tibetans, massacre of Uighurs and spreading of Corona via wet markets. Do it.
Hasan Minhaj’s show on Asian Americans in the US presented Indian supporters of Trump and Modi as cute and part of “one big family.” There is no other Asian community in the US that has supported such hateful politics as Modi’s and Trump’s as the Indian upper-caste Hindu diaspora
In your capacity, Mr. Chaudhary, you had also assured Kashmiris not to believe “rumors” of curfew and not to buy stocks, a day before your government launched a military siege of entire Kashmir that is still on 25 days later. Which capacity was that—official, personal, moral?
In my official, personal, moral capacity, want to assure everyone there is no healthcare crisis in
#Kashmir
. Some difficulties, not unique to post Aug 5 situation. Saying this in backdrop of some shocking reportage from Delhi, London & Washington
Kashmiris have learned realism from history and they have no illusions about China. But we are baffled that a small class of Kashmiri politicians see India as their savior and no amount of Indian abuse and insults can disabuse them of their illusions.
Those Kashmiris tempted to look towards China as some sort of saviour need only google the plight of Uighur Muslims. Be careful what you wish for..........
Most people in Kashmir have “prepaid” mobile phones. No one will have the Internet. This is just a distraction! Don’t be distracted. The only “breaking news” Kashmiris want to hear: “India soldiers to return keys to Kashmir and go back their own homes.”
They call this wanton destruction of Kashmiri homes an “encounter”, instead of what it is: a crime against humanity. The colonizer’s language always normalizes its own violence.
Just so that you know, we have still not been able to speak with our families in Kashmir. There are dark whispers being shared about South Kashmir where my folks are. It has been the longest 24 hours, and there seems no end in sight...
Friends and family in
#Kashmir
were sending messages over the last few days asking if India has some sort of a final solution in mind. It was too hard to give comfort or say everything will be fine. Now the messages have stopped coming. The long night has begun
#StandwithKashmir
Friends and family in
#Kashmir
were sending messages over the last few days asking if India has some sort of a final solution in mind. It was too hard to give comfort or say everything will be fine. Now the messages have stopped coming. The long night has begun
#StandwithKashmir
India is telling Kashmiris you can use some phones, as if they are doing us a favor. You denied Kashmir what is a human right. You should be ashamed. Now release thousands in jail, allow Internet, let people assemble, & take your military out of our homes, streets, & lives
Kashmiris belong to Kashmir like the Hangul, the Bulbul, and the Maswal belong to it. We grow out of its soil and thrive in its embrace. Our ancestors’ skillful hands have made the land fertile and kept it beautiful. It is not a property to be sold or acquired.
This Kashmiri child asked the Indian forces why they had killed her father. They laughed in response, she says. Indian occupation is an immoral entity run like a criminal enterprise.
Which story can i tell which pain here can I sell everyday is the same massacre again and again Kashmir is my name for my share is only shame.
#KashmirBleeds
After 370, India:
To Indians: 'Now you are free to take their land and their women and settle there"
To International media: 'Kashmir is NORMAL--say THAT or fire your reporters!'
To Kashmiris (gagged, with guns to their heads): 'Jobs, development, jobs, deve... SAY IT!'
For 75 years, Indian “liberals” told Kashmiris that their future is safe only with India. Now that future is soon going to be in some Adani’s or Tata’s safe.
#Kashmir
In the 1990s counterinsurgency war, Gurkha soldiers of Indian military terrorized ordinary Kashmiris, used machetes to behead people, it was said. Of course done under orders of Indian leaders 1/3.
Kashmir cannot be adjudicated in the courts of the occupier state. It is clear from this verdict that all the previous Indian accounts of history that framed the so-called “accession” as Kashmir’s voluntary act were false, that accession was just conquest by force. 1/n
On one side of this line, India is stealing Kashmiri land and demolishing Kashmir homes, on the other side, they are shelling and bombing them. No one should have any doubt about the nature of the Indian state in Kashmir.
THREAD: Some in Kashmir are mistakenly seeing this mass dispossession event, esp. when it happens to loyalists party members, as rightful revenge. It is not. Don’t normalize this in your discourse. This is actually a disaster. The settler colonial state is activating 1/n
First real visuals from Kashmir. Not from embedded journalists. Kashmiris saying: "India has brought us to the stone age"; "This is robber's law;" "The lava is boiling. India won't know where it'll explode." Keep your ears open for such voices, not ones curated for Indian TV
Aww, you are disappointed people are speaking up for the rights of Kashmiris! Why don’t you go and stand next to an Indian military base, take a few pictures of apples, and report back to your chest-thumping compatriots that Kashmiris are doing fine under the military siege?
Disappointing to see
@Malala
wade into cliched Pakistan state narrative about
#Kashmir
when the hard truth is that she can never even return to her own country because she was shot for the rights of girls to go to school.
During Slavery in the US, slaves were given special passes for movement. If caught without them, they were beaten and returned to their owners. Same in South Africa during Apartheid. Kashmiris always carry ID cards and curfew passes, and now 👇🏼. History moves in circles.
Marriage pass: A pass issued by the government to some family to move on the highway from Anantnag to Doda to attend a marriage ceremony. The highway will be closed on Sunday for the civilian traffic.
India’s disinfo-warriors in Kashmir:
August 2019 vs August 2020
*See the fly in both? It is there to say that there is something rotten in the state of India.
Yasin spent 14 yrs in Indian jails. Was tortured. In 1994, he moved from an armed to a non-violent struggle, even though some in Kashmir criticized him for that. But Indian hate knows no bounds. Will any Indian leader be put on trial for their ongoing horrible crimes in Kashmir?
India doesn’t even want to count Kashmiri deaths. They tell doctors to not issue death certificates, not treat the pellet victims, not let the injured be near hospitals. They want to make Kashmiris totally invisible for the world.
Indian military uses explosives to blow up Kashmiri houses and kill rebels, then leave without clearing the place of unexploded bombs. Or are bombs deliberately left behind to maximize death? This is pure terror. These are crimes against humanity.
No one shut down the Internet or phones in Afghanistan even during the worst fighting. India subjects
#Kashmir
to this ignominy so often it has become a weapon of war…And Kashmiris are forced to pay for these services even during shutdowns. What do you call such a regime?
Prof. Irfan Habib is a world-renowned historian and a history in himself. He stands tall at 88 years. You, Mr. Khan, on the other hand are a washed out, craven politician who chose to fall to BJP’s feet for a few crumbs from the fascists.
Shri
#IrfanHabib
tried on stage to disrupt inaugural address questioning Hon'ble Governor's right to quote
#MaulanaAbdulKalamAzad
, shouting that he should quote Godse.He pushed Hon'ble Governor's ADC&SecurityOfficer, who prevented his unseemly gesture
#IndianHistoryCongress
Kashmir vote is a protest against Indian government’s forcible integrationist project, and a thumping defeat of the BJP proxies. In Ladakh, a clear rejection of the BJP’s 2019 disintegration of the state. In India, it is a bigger defeat for Modi than even the results show
Here is a fact: when an Indian civilian is killed in Kashmir, most Kashmiris condemn it & want to rethink political strategy. When Kashmiri civilians are killed by Indian soldiers, most Indians cheer it & demand more, while the pro-India politicians maintain a cowardly silence
“For Sikhs from Punjab...
#Kashmir
is like a neighbour, so wherever Sikhs are from - Canada to California - they still see Kashmiris as neighbours...Their solidarity is like the solidarity that one extends towards a neighbour in trouble,” I told AlJazeera
The current crisis in Kashmir which is imminently threatening the life and future of millions of Kashmiris is entirely the making of India’s fascist leadership egged on by a vocal majority of Indians who have been trained for long to fantasize a genocide in Kashmir.
These killings are sad and condemnable. Indian journalists are spinning it to criminalize Kashmiri Muslims and issuing threats to them (see below), and deflecting from their own government’s role which runs Kashmir like a military occupation and a security state.
Targeted killings of members of minorities, incl a much loved old pandit, a poor chaat seller and two teachers in Kashmir Valley shows terrorists reopening the 1990s playbook. It will fail again, won’t help anybody’s cause & mostly hurt Kashmiri’s, of whatever faith.
85 percent people in Kashmir who can vote but didn’t, have actually voted. They voted for the boycott of the Indian occupation and its shenanigans. Boycott is not a passive act; it is an affirmation of the right to self-determination and the refusal to cooperate in evil.
Hindu nationalists always claim that Indian Muslims wont be loyal to “India” because their faith is rooted in a foreign land. But now Hindu nationalists want them to show loyalty toward a foreign state to prove their loyalty to “India”. Hindutva again fails the logic test
It takes special kind of cultivated hate to make a large-size print out in English for a tiny shop owner in India who can’t even spell his own work correctly but can accurately express his hatred of a people.
Kabul is closer to Srinagar than Delhi. Has always been. It is history and geography. If global events suggest anything, it is that forcible occupations have a shelf life. They are haunted by the inevitable.
The Indian state is celebrating the first anniversary of the siege and blockade that it imposed on 5 Aug 2019 in Kashmir... with a siege and blockade in Kashmir. They are so dull and predictable!
Wrong! The issues India needs to discuss: —how to
1. prevent hypernationalism from shaping govt policy in Kashmir; 2. stop nationalist media from demonizing Kashmiris; 3. recognizing & rectifying historical injustices in Kashmir; 4. tell your people truth about the occupation
4 issues we need to talk about after
#Pulwama
attack
1 Intelligence failure
2 Political failure in Kashmir
3 Pak support to Jaish
4 China blocking India's international efforts against Jaish
Instead of this the barbs are directed at NC, PDP, Opposition, liberals
“RSS is a nazi-like organization”
“Those who speak for Kashmiri interests are most vulnerable”
“We are asking human rights, substantive democracy, & freedom”
“Kashmiris are under siege & collective punishment”
“Fundamental question is about consent of people”
@NitashaKaul
It must be recognized as a crime against humanity when a ruling class deliberately pushes a people toward a well-known and imminent danger. This is not incompetence, it is sheer malice.
An overflow of specious arguments in support of Indian army’s necro-abuse in
#Kashmir
. How does tying & dragging corpses of militants suspected to be booby trapped keep soldiers safe? Someone tied the feet of the body. And wouldn’t dragging cause explosion?
#IndianNecroAbuse
Standard Operating Procedure. Rope/chain shud be longer. Terrorists are trained to booby trap their bodies with grenades. We lost Lt Col Niranjan of NSG at Pathankot air Base as he tried to clear body of a dead Pak terrorist. Incidentally this dead terrorist is also a Pak jihadi
Kashmiris, under an information blockade, haven’t been told yet that India officially now views them as mere subjects of a colonial occupation, that their lands are now officially available for sale, that there is nothing called “Kashmiri” anymore, they don’t exist as a people
South Kashmir is my home. It is where Indian army failed to dominate the spirit of Kashmiri civil resistance. It is where Indian military went rogue. They go and take away young boys, torture, mix rice and oil to destroy stored food, and vandalize homes.
The “movie hall reopening” story has circulated in Indian media since the mid-1990s, often without mentioning that Indian forces occupy these halls. And it is not like Kashmiris haven’t watched movies in the last 30 years. Are these reports some kind of therapy for Indian psyche?
This murder will not be televised.
The body, the family, and their mourning will be hurriedly erased from view, until it can be claimed that no murder took place.
“We couldn’t even give him a proper bath. The police all night were compelling us to hurry up. Even his grave was not properly dug. It was around 7:30 am that we finally buried him.”
Reports
@JunaidKathjoo
With all due respect to Indian farmers’ struggle, is it possible not to throw Kashmiris under the bus for it. You shouldn’t have to tell Indian govt that your sons are “defending the nation” in Kashmir—they are not, they are just an occupying army. So don’t.
Yes
#SayNotToWar
, but do remember most of this war is happening in Kashmir and affecting Kashmiri lives. Long after Modi’s elections and nationalist TV’s warmongering are over, Kashmiris will still be under a brutal occupation.
#SayNoToOccupationInKashmir
Kashmiris chant azadi for all, esp. for Palestine, so thanks for this long lesson in solidarity?? Btw, it comes from Persian and in Kashmir its history goes back to at least 16th C. Its ancient anarchical roots are in anti-hierarchical aspirations. There is history before 1980s.
the azadi slogan originated from pakistani feminists protesting against the zia ul haq regime actually, so calling this a tactic of 'appropriation' is a huge reach
The beloved witness.
Your country is cruel, your soldiers are heartless, and you want to bury truth under your noisy lies.
Our children are tender, tough, and they will remember.
#sopore
#Kashmir
You are a nationalist & not a journalist—when it comes to
#Kashmir
. Acc. to his family, the 65 year old was dragged out of his car & shot dead by Indian CRPF. Then his grandson was placed on his body for photo-op. Even after hearing family’s account you refuse to delete your lie
On 370 & 35A removal:
Indian Right: This is historic (Now crush Kashmiris and take their land)
Indian Left: Fine, but... (it is bad for Indian federalism and for India’s image abroad)
8 million Kashmiris: this is why we need freedom from you and your hubris more than ever.
Indians, thanks but no thanks asking Kashmiri students in India to spend Eid with you since they can’t go home. They would rather be home with their families. Instead of washing off conscience, fight the fascists among you who are stealing our homes in your name
#StandwithKashmir
Indian nationalist calls to do with Kashmiris what Israeli does with Palestinians is not mere Hindutva fantasy. The genocidal desire inevitably arises from the structure of colonial power that the Indian state exerts over Kashmir.
Hatemonger
@ARanganathan72
is calling for a mass genocide, an Israel-like solution in KASHMIR, an Indian State in the ANI Podcast. Isn't it anti-national? Shouldn't this Criminal be booked under Harsh Laws?
Thank you
@darab_farooqui
sir for highlighting this.
Indian occupation in
#Kashmir
is a criminal nexus that trades in dead Kashmiri bodies—local executors like Davinder scout for killable youth, CI forces kill them, & Indian politicians display them as trophies. At each level, there is profit (money, promotions, elections)
Davinder Singh and another accused in the case — Irfan Shafi Mir — were granted the relief by the court in a case filed by the special cell of
#Delhi
Police.
#JammuAndKashmir
#DelhiPolice
No one in Kashmir has ever wanted or asked for a railway line going to Pahalgam. Who is this being built for? Kashmiris know what this is. Destruction of people’s livelihoods + the fragile ecology in pursuit of Hindutva State’s settler goals.
Every pogrom, genocide, and ethnic cleansing that the Indian government allows and enables is India’s “internal matter” and the world should just look away. Maybe India should leave the UN if it doesn’t like it.
#JustIn
| "Citizenship Amendment Act is an internal matter of India," says Centre after UN High Commissioner for Human Rights files intervention application in Supreme Court on
#CAA
.
#CitizenshipAct
#CitizenshipAmendmentAct
More on and NDTV 24x7
Yet again— India has put 8 million Kashmiris in a communication blockade and under a military siege. This is not “law and order”, it is about colonial indifference toward Kashmiri lives and an intentional imposition of suffering.
#Kashmir
#SyedAliShahGeelani
The Indian man killed 68 civilians and is now free. The Kashmiri man was an innocent civilian, was killed in police custody, and now his dead body has been accused of being guilty! Difference between justice in India and Kashmir.
There are 1.74 billion websites as of 2020. You denied access to all of them for 6 months. Then opened only 300, mostly meant for paying taxes and bills, no social media—at 2G speeds but at full price. You would be profoundly immoral to see it as your gift to people.
I see this so often. Indians celebrating the death of Kashmiris. 13 Kashmiris die in a bus accident. An Indian “doctor” in London expresses joy, glee. Times of India publishes and makes his venom the top comment. Hatred grows, comment by comment.
When a state can’t take care of its own people, how could it ever look after the health of political dissidents it has declared as enemies and imprisoned? There is no difference between killing and actively creating conditions of someone’s death.
No. You. Don’t.
How can you “remain supportive of Palestinian aspirations” while pursuing the Israeli model of occupation and settler colonialism in Kashmir?
Greetings to FM Dr. Riyad Al-Maliki and the Government and people of the State of Palestine on their Declaration of Independence Day. India remains supportive to the aspirations of Palestinians in their pursuit of statehood, peace and prosperity.
This is material evidence of complicity in the ongoing genocide.
Btw, two days ago Indian troops used white phosphorus in Kashmir, as Hindutva activists proudly circulated the images of severely burnt Kashmiri bodies.
Only mutually-shared hate can explain this violence.
In 2001, India arrested SAR on false charges, kept him in jail for years without evidence, when he was released they let their henchmen shoot & shatter him, & they called his voice “sedition.” As a Kashmiri, professor, & human being, he stood taller than them. RIP
#SARGeelani
We will immediately hear a lot about “police/crpf version” to deflect from a murder. The journalists will dig out the truth eventually—but by that time the world would have moved on. In Kashmir, the state always “proves” the murder to the be the fault of the murdered. 1/3
A rare attempt in mainstream Indian nationalist media to talk about the ethnic cleansing of the Jammu Muslims in 1947. This historically silenced event precipitated the trauma of “Accesion” and its continuing colonial aftermath.
Mr. Modi, the people of Kashmir have never voted for you, they have rejected your fascist Hindutva ideology, they are not going to accept the lies and the dissembling you are peddling to justify your brazen annexation of Kashmir.
#StandWithKashmir
This is what happens when you potentially have land routes to trade with multiple countries in East, Central and Western Asia, but are forced to trade with just one country in the South, which also wishes to throttle your livelihood.
Visuals from Kashmir highway where apple-laden trucks moving towards Indian markets have been halted, leading to the rotting of the fruit.
After reducing prices, minimal compensation post untimely snowfall, and lockdowns, this is the latest blow to Kashmir's largest economy.
“Stone pelters” is all hogwash as we know Kashmiri dissent has been punished all along under this criminal-police state. It goes against international legal norms to deny travel to a people under a military occupation.
As Kashmiris, we have no responsibility to bring light to India’s fascist public sphere or to explain. But we owe it to ourselves to not be gaslighted by their propaganda films. Don’t see yourselves in how they want you to see yourself. Turn your backs to their image of you. 1/n
This man’s hate has been India’s playbook in Kashmir—at least since 1989. Jagmohan did this and much worse. But he is dead, and Kashmir is still alive.
Telling:
@SAfridiOfficial
spoke about rights of
#Kashmiris
in his comment; but in his offensive, able-ist response Gambhir shouted “OUR
#Kashmir
”. One spoke about people, other about territory. One is moved by humane concern for people, other by aggressive desire to dominate land
The other kind of everyday killings in Kashmir by well-“known” gunmen—of people who don’t count, who end being statistics, who have no champions that can seek justice for them, and whose families will just bear the burden in utter silence.
#Kashmir
For Western eyes, Hindutva propagandists use a renovated church cynically to legitimize their colonialism in Kashmir, while denying Kashmiris their right to worship and demonizing and assaulting Christians and Muslims across India. Hindutva is a pure hate.
This wanwun is Kashmiri anti-colonial refusal of the colonial courts’ power over the bodies and voices of Kashmiris.
#YasinMalik
will always stand taller than the fascist occupier which wants to erase him and his political legacy.
No doubt these four young muslim labourers will be paid for their hard work but have made
#Amarnathyatra
for the devotee possible on their shoulders, it is
#kashmir
and
#kashmiriyat
“Always?” Kashmiris, Dalits, Adivasis, Nagas, Sikhs, Manipuris, Muslims, Christians...will tell you a different story. The imaginary “India” you evoke was just that—imaginary. The real India has been a different beast, invisible to those who chose petty privileges over principles
A democratic India that always fought for principles of liberty & equality is today being questioned & castigated for its brutal actions in Kashmir internationally. Governments will come & go but what about the damage done to the reputation & moral fabric of this country?
Domicile issue is the start of the culmination of India’s settler colonial war in
#Kashmir
. It will end either in Kashmir’s national liberation or as the end of Kashmir itself. India has left no other possibility. There is no other analytic frame to understand this situation
Just because you missed/ignored last two decades of critical scholarship on Kashmir (and colonialism), doesn’t mean everyone else has. Screaming “India DID NOT occupy Kashmir” works in Indian TV studios and preserves nationalist self-delusions - the ones you call “facts”
For you:
Integration= erasing Kashmiris as a people
Inclusion= forced demographic change
Industrial growth= selling Kashmiri land as parcels to your crony capitalist backers
Investment= pillaging Kashmir’s resources
Proper environment= one where Kashmiris are invisible
The decisions on Articles 370 and 35(A) will:
Further integration.
Boost inclusion.
Begin industrial growth for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
Increase investment.
Create the proper environment for innovation.
It ends the era of exclusion.
Kashmir can be resolved only via a recognized process of decolonization in which all the peoples of the historic state of Kashmir are the primary party, not in so-called “talks” between military officials or state bureaucracies. The latter will always produce an unjust status quo
Kashmiri man says he has “no expectations” from Indian bureaucrats. An Indian bureaucrat is offended by this... and gets the Kashmiri man arrested. I guess there are a few things you can expect from Indian bureaucrats.
To be young and Kashmiri living under Indian occupation is a death sentence waiting to be executed. You don’t have to do anything or be anything else. You are living on borrowed time.
In the valley of Kashmir that measures 140 x 40 kms and is the primary agricultural land, laying “324.4 kms of new railway track” makes sense only in the settler-colonial minds. For Kashmiris, this is an overwhelming physical threat to their lives and livelihoods.