Anti India Sentiment Of Kashmiris and its Reasons
Kashmiris are continuously being tormented by the Indian Security Forces. Our homeland is no more ours. And we see military personnel on the streets of Srinagar as if they own the land and we are refugees. They are always left open to shoot the local innocent people, not sparing kids below 15 years of age.
Most of the Indians (other than Kashmiris) would be pondering why the peace-loving people of Kashmir are anti-India and why every protest leads to anti-India in nature. The only reason is that Indians and their government always wanted Kashmir and never cared about its people. They all want Kashmir and its people mean nothing to them. And in-fact, Kashmir has become a liability for them. But the reason, which is hard but true, is that the Indians want to retain Kashmir only because of its enmity with Pakistan. I’ve even read in some blogs who openly ask Kashmiris to cross over to AZAD KASHMIR and that they should forget their land i.e. Kashmir too. This hostility of Indian people forces Kashmiris to turn to Pakistan, otherwise there is no reason to ask Pakistan for help.
The successive Central Governments never tried to tame their security forces and instead lauded their misdeeds. Speaking about my father, he was shot dead by the armed forces while he was on a survey for construction of a dam. Nothing happened to his killers and they roamed freely. There are more than ten thousand similar cases. Why have all successive governments failed to check these violations? When no soldier was ever punished by the Indian Government, anti-India sentiment was bound to arise. They have made our life so hectic and have continuously been occupying civil properties. Creating unnecessary problems is their common and daily task. Barging into houses and arresting youth is a new trend they have learnt. I fail to understand who allows India to call itself a democracy and that too secular.
Why does the influence of human rights organizations stop at the border of Kashmir. In India, they talk about the animal rights, but in Kashmir, why do they forget human rights even? Killing a person and labeling him as a terrorist belonging to LeT. This is how they treat Kashmiris and then expect them to be loyal to India. And in-fact, Jammu which is a part of the state sees no such violations only because its a Hindu majority area. but still India is a secular democracy. It makes me laugh to see how biased Indians are.
The BJP has always wanted to get rid of Kashmir because its the only Muslims majority region in India and they have no hold in this part of India. But they want to play politics in loosing Kashmir. They want that India should loose Kashmir during the Congress rule so that they can blame Congress and use it as an election issue. It would be a win win situation for them, first they will get rid of the only muslim majority of India and the second that they would win the next elections. BJP knew that kashmiris would retaliate anything they do in Jammu and so they enforced a blockade on Kashmir. Naturally, Kashmiris would retaliate. So kashmiris marched towards AZAD KASHMIR. The protesters could have easily been stopped by the forces in the half way but they let them reach the border and then opened fire at them, killing 20 people and a Hurriyat Leader. A Kashmiri life holds no value to India and they still claim to be a democracy.
We see violence in about 20 states of India which have been engulfed in cancer by maoists and naxalites. Just because they are Hindu majority areas, entirely different rules apply there. Unless the Indian Government removes bias towards Kashmiris, nothing is going to change here in Kashmir. If India wants Kashmiris is to be with it, they have to respect rights of Kashmiri people and their lives too. Other-wise “HUM KYA CHAHTE, AZAADI” will be the only slogan everyone would be hearing.
Tags: Anti-India, Independence, Kashmir
January 5th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Fellow, we have reached a stage where each state is becoming J&K, each state is burning like Assam, each individual is living with a constant fear in his mind.
When I look at the photos you have put on your blog; I feel the same when I look at photos of CST, Taj and Oberoi post Mumbai attacks; I feel the same when I look at the photo of a PWD Engineer being brutally killed by his own MP/MLAs; I feel the same when I look at a poor helpless Bihari being beaten by an agitated Marathi Maanos; I feel same when TATA moves out of Kolkata shattering thousands of emplyment dreams becuase of a crazy political party’s unwillingness.
It’s unfortunate.
Dear fellow, can you see the similarity… a common man, very common, who doesn’t survive if he stops earning for a month; whose family goes crazy with even the thought of him being snatched away from them; who is very lively and who just wants to live his day to day life without an interest in political party, community, state, country affairs; who is not doing great things in his life but for sure is not harming anyone… that common man is the victim in all above mentioned scenarios.
See in all above scenarios the other party is different… Army, Terrorist, MLA/MP, Provoked people of a state, Opposition Leaders… what is common in them… they are doing these acts for their very own personal frustations or profits… and they all are hiding themselves behind different labels… My Party’s ideology, Minority Welfare, Jehad, Hinduism and God knows what.
We have to reach a stage where our common people are educated enough that they cannot be remote controlled by these spine-less people on earth. Believe me they have no religion, no faith. They are Gunda crowd wearing expensive clothes. Me and you need to help ignorant people around us; just inculcate little awareness, need not run a university. Just don’t allow the Gunda crowd grow strong anywhere; they prosper because they use our down-trodden guys who are not wise enough to understand what is not good for them.
I request you and other fellows also to get into this mission of igniting few ignorant, down-trodden people whenever they get a chance to inetract with them. It might become a revolution one day provided we all are having right intention of giving them right insight.
I do this often whenever i get a chance; with those whom I interact with e.g. Maid, Gatekeeper, Rickshaw puller, labour.
It’s just a suggestion… I feel helpless.
I just pray to HIM; that it’s high time you take back the charge of your people; they are admant to destroy what you and later they made in centuries. Please do teake the charge before it’s too late. Let humanity prevail.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Thanks Ms
I understand ur point. About 200 people died in Mumbai attacks and the whole nation, infact the whole world, was crying. But have you ever thought about 100K Kashmiris that were killed. About 90% of them were killed by the Indian Security Forces and not terrorists. We only ask the Indian government to clip their (Security Forces) powers but I fail to understand why they are hesitating to do so. They themselves say that the situation is improving, then what is the problem in doing this thing for Kashmiris. I appreciate your vision, but you need to know more about Kashmir and understand its people.
Regards
xx
April 29th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
It is a real unwanted thing going on in kashmir, and I pray for it to get a solution asap. But this situation can never really be compared to the naxalite problem because it is a totally internal problem and there is no foreign country involved. Instead of army, there we have task forces. The tribals there suffer the same as kashmiris. The naxals recruit uneducated and socially ignorant youth into their cadres and give them weapons. They are given bizzare reasons as to why they have to fight. They dont know why they are fighting, but they fight, coz they are involved in it. Only if they could be educated, things could’ve been different. You will be surprised that these tribals dont even know the name of their country.
There is injustice everywhere, it is only unfortunate that in kashmir it is religion, in other places it is caste or a different tribe. People just love to fight, doesnt matter with whom, as you can see in movies too, the top sellers always have too much violence and the youth just loves it.BJP’s communal politics in India is disliked by many hindus too. Or else, why would it lose electitions. The presence of heavy military(or police) is never conductive for a peaceful and happy society. But with pakistan fighting not only a regular war, which has ethics, it is also fighting a guerrilla warfare, which is unethical, has no rules, so anything can be done. Usually the losers pick up this tactic. And hence the increase in military raiding houses of locals. Terrorists hide in houses of poor unsuspecting people and not in 5star hotels. India always was correct in international politics. I cant say the same about local politics. Thats why it is respected internationally. What kind of a country encourages its youth to take up guns and destroy their life and others too. In India, most of the people end up their life without ever seeing a gun.
Kashmir is its people, and not the governments behind it. I strongly believe in it. But it is impossible for kashmir to become a separate nation by itself, considering the political situation now. I think that it should be given the freedom to choose under whichever country it wants to remain as an autonomous union territory. Kashmir should form a panel, comprising of highly educated and qualified people, and basing upon their views regarding economical, social benefits for the new state, they can decide.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Whatever you may have written may sound music to any pro-pakistani. But I wonder if you talk about kashmir then how could you forget about Kashmiri Pundits?
You haven’t mentioned anything about how they were killed in masses? You haven’t mentioned how their women were abducted, raped and killed? You haven’t mentioned how infants were killed by muslim terrorist?
You haven’t mentioned how they were forced out of the valley by muslim fundamentalists?
You haven’t mentioned how the so called innocent kashmiri muslim lapped up the land, house of his pundit neighbour?
You haven’t mentioned about the conditions in which they are living right now?
But then why should you? Your loyalty seems to be only towards the kashmiri muslims and it’s no surprise to me. You give details of every minute incident which happened but omit this entire episode of hatred toward your fellow kashmiri pundit.
Not a single Kashmiri Muslim Org. have raised concern over their condition, Not a single muslim wants them back. Why?
You are reaping whatever you sowed….along with your terrorists brothers.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
1st and foremost get your facts correct. No Kashmiri and Hurriyat leader were killed trying to cross over to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
There was live media coverage. Pakistani army fired in air as warning while they were trying to cross over the river Jhelum. Later on they were pushed back by Indian army.
You did not mention single line of Kashmiri Pandits living in DODA District made to evacuate their home in the fear of attacks on them by terrorist.
Why they are not Kashmiri.
Daily so many Indian Forces die fighting terrorist all over the country no talks about their life.
You talk about freedom. Name one country in this world that would tolerate any kind of protest against the government like India does.
Saudi Arabia , China , Pakistan. I dont think any of this country tolerate any sort of protest against the government.
Yet our Indian government is EverReady to talk with Hurriyat conference.
I ask which government in the world is ready to talk to separatist party.
India spends so much money in development of Kashmir. In every state of India they have special quota for Kashmiri students for admission in college. You have your own leaders being elected from your state.
Non- J&K residents are not allowed to purchase any property in J&K.
The day Indian Forces retreat from J&K gives you a separate state, I assure you the very next day you will loose everything to China.
Against CHINA there will be no talks no protest, because there is no democracy in China.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Continued
Chinese government are eying lands of India.
There are major problem in J&K but without local support to government they cannot be resolved.
People go on to claim that Elections in J&K are bogus. Then who are the people going and voting for.
Army personal standing and guarding Sia-Chin Glaciers at so much cold India alone spends 4.5 crore a day to maintain Glaciers who stay away from their family for about 8 months
There are some hate propaganda on both side which we need to know.
Some political party is biased does not mean they have support of Hindus.
Issue of taking support of Pakistan, if some people in my nation are biased against me doesnt mean i should take support from my nations enemy.
India has larger number of population of Muslim than in Pakistan.
Yet you see so many Muslims progressing having fame and name to political leader.
Nobody is biased against Muslims. This is what enemy of India wants you to think.
This is only weapon they have to defeat us. The day we start fighting with each other we have 100s of small nations out of India sooner there will be Communist rule we as minority , we as slaves.
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I understand your feelings but is pakistan going to support you?? It has not even accepted those people who came to pakistan in 1947 then how it is going to accept you? Go and ask the condition of people in POK. it is much worse. Indian army commits atrocoites but it also protects you. If this army was not there you guys would have been fucked up by the bloody millitants who don’t belong to any religion. You people have subsidised eucations in every indian top colleges, quotas, subsidised rice, sugar and other commodities, treatment in army hospitals, canteen facilites. which country in this whole world give these?? go and ask your neighbour country if it can afford to do so? Kashmir was apert of india and will continue to be a part of India. You guys need to change your vision. You all alwya treat the security forces with ahte and anger. you treat them as dogs then how can you expect them to be humans?? millitancy in kashmir erupted in the 1990s due to the support of your people. At that time there was very littel army presence over there but the reaction fo your people forced the indian authorities to take such harsh actions. People in your state hide the terrosrists in thir basements and provide them cover. take a look waht USA or Uk is doing to Iraq and Afganistan?? Is this better than kashmir?? Even your so called Pakistan is killing its own people in SWAT by tagging them as terrosrists just for money. If they can do this to their own people imagine what would be your condition?? even though Kashmir is a muslim majority state bit india has more muslims than kashmir and pakistan. why are these people not saying anything?? why only you people are saying this?? are they not muslims or are they all sold by the government?? My dear friend first look inside you. I can understand your anger and hatered for the Army but examine cases where army people wer e killed by trapping them due to their good nature. It will also reach the same statistics. Didn’t LET anf Jaish people didn’t raped women in kashmir?? didn’t they made small kids parentless?? where was your voice at that time?? I am not defending the army but I am exposing your double standards. is raping and mass killing by millitants legal and accepted by the kashmiris?? isn’t it kufr in islam?? kashmiris are always targeted according to you but this is also due to a reason. take all the instances in the pasr and present whatever name that came out from investgations on bomb blasts and genocides there is a link to kashmir everytime. Can you deny that?? if anything ahppends repeatedly why won’t the government take steps and this reaction from authories will be normal. Imagine a afgani lving in you neighbouthood. will you not doubt him? Indian army didn’t went to kasmir you people called it. millitabcy was also in punjab but people decide to finsish it off in their owna nd they did it but did ever people of kashmir tried so?? if they had done even 10% istead of compaining today kashmir would have been a high rise state of india. India has raised three regiments for kashmiris just to give them employment. is this a bias??
Think over this my friend and then try to look into the dark side of the condut of kashmiris and its effect on kashmir.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I, in my blog, never said that I wanted to merge Kashmir with Pakistan. Neither do I support secession. The Only thing I demand is that we be given a dignified life, which we can get only when Indian army is removed from J&K. Indian army should only be allowed at the borders and not in the civillian ares.
And those who are trumpeting about Kashmiri Pandits, I would say, that I dont care what you write. They reaped what they sowed and I am happy at their plight. They deserve this kind of a treatment. And for people who say thousands of them were killed, I wish to inform them that only 480 were killed. This was stated by the DGP J&K who himself is a pandit.
regards
July 20th, 2009 at 11:38 am
The day the Indian army leaves kashmir, the state would be taken over by either pakistan or China.
As far as you saying kashimiri Pandits “reaped what they sowed and I am happy at their plight. They deserve this kind of a treatment. ” you just showed why the indian army treats you the way it does. If you think killing of innocent people is not a crime, then you are no different then the people who are killing kashmiris. Killing of 480 innocent people and then saying ONLY 480 were killed just shows everyone how inhuman you are. I guess YOU TOO desrve what you are getting and you are reaping what you sowed !
India has always supportes you and got hatred in return. If you want their co-operation, you have to give some in retrun as well. The day the army leaves kashmir, you WOULD be merged with either China or Pakistan. Pray they dont leave. good luck !
July 20th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
@RR
We lost 1 lakh people and u see only 480 pandits… and u call me inhuman… i need not answer people like u coz u understand only what u want and turn a blind eye to reality.
July 21st, 2009 at 5:29 am
I never said it was ok for you to lose 1 lakh people .. but i have a problem with justifying killing one person because someone else died.. the women and children who were among those 480 killed .. were they the ones who killed the 1 lakh people you are talking about? i dont think so ..
why are you chosing to turn a blind eye to the killings by militants from across the border.. it is because of these people that the army is there ..
try kicking them out instead of supporting them and the army will leave on its own .. i dont think the army or anyone for that matter enjoys working at sub-zero temperatures and staying away from their families..
the ‘reality’ as put by you is that people from both sides died..
July 21st, 2009 at 9:12 am
ok .. i read the other post of yours titled “Kashmir solution” .. you wrote ” and to my kashmiri pandit brothers i wish to say that u were a part of kashmir and will always be…we all here would like u to return to ur homeland..the elemenst that drove u out have themselves been driven out”
so which way is it u want them there or you dont ?
Look i know that the indian army has been a part of the problem, they dont always act the way they should and they are the reason some people hate india.. i wish the govt comes up with harsher punishments for the people who commits such crimes againt kashmiris coz the kashmiris, like people from any other state in india, have the right to live a dignified and peaceful life.
I dont know about the others but i do want kashmir to stay a part of india, a peaceful part of india and i want it WITH the kashmiris.. coz the state wont be the same without the locals..
i seriously hope there are stricter laws in place not just for the locals but the armed personnel as wel
July 21st, 2009 at 9:16 am
and i do apologise for my first post.. i didnt mean to offend you ..i just got irked by ur comment on the pandits.. i pray this issue gets solved soon so that no more innocent people suffer.. god bless !
July 25th, 2009 at 11:45 am
what makes me angry is that every indian sees 480 Pandits were killed.. has anybody ever thought that 1 lakh kashmiri muslims were killed??? there are still 10000 of kashmiris missing…their families dont know if they are dead or alive…. and ur nightmare of kashmir being taken over by china or pakistan is not going to be true.. if kashmir gets independence it will always remain independent…
July 27th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
You know whats wrong with our nation ” India ” , too much of freedom. We have given full rights to everyone even separatist. In our nation even a person who wants to divide my nation has full right to speak. This needs to change.
I can never figure out from where do this separatist party like Hurriyat get money its sure not from people of kashmir and not from any other part of India.
And the reason for problem in kashmir is people like you, who do not do any good for kashmir just spread hate. For people like you its important for kashmiris to suffer so that you can sell your politics, ideologies and satisfy yours masters in pakistan.
People like you have no solution for any problems but cant see somebody solving the problem either. Its wonderful you have learnt to distinguish between Hindu kashmiri and Muslim kashmiri. Now you can spread hate more easily.
For any instance anybody dies people like you provoke innocent kashmiris to go out on streets burning cars without even knowing who has done it and putting all the blame on army. Actually you are responsible for all the deaths of kashmiris .
People like you play with emotions of poor kashmiri people . Guys like you sit at home enjoy deaths of innocent kashmiris and wait to add more fuel. Its wonderful you never bother to speak about militants infiltrating into kashmir and killing innocent kashmiris.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
@Kailash
YOur limited knowledge about Kashmir makes me laugh on you.
Since you’ve talked about the freedom that India gives separatists, you forgot to mention about Varun Gandhi’s speech. India gives him freedom too that makes him speak such thing. India gives Modi some freedom to that allows him to kill innocent muslims. India gives freedom to Right wing hindu outfits and then calls the Indian Mujahideen to blame it all on Muslims. I appreciate the freedom that India gives us.
Well, the separatists are agents of your govenment which provides them a good amount of security and escorts. and pays them too.
I am not a kind of person who sits at home enjoying the death of ppl. Atleast I write the truth for people to know. Unlike who who doesnt know a thing and keeps on barking baseless things. Militants dont kill civilians, only ur army does and we have been witnessing this fact since 20 years. Read more about Kashmir and then correct me, if possible..
Saadat
August 27th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Hi Saadat
It is regretable that one lakh kashmiris have died. I was not aware of the figure so long. Personally felt very bad about your father.
But why has the Kashmir insurgency not died down like the Khalistan insurgency. Please do not be jingoistic while trying to answer this question and say something like Kashmiris cannot be put down etc. My feel as an outsider is that Kashmiris have never had the feel of reality. Somewhere someone has to come to the negotiating table.
If you are not talking of secession then you should be on the negotiating table. Either you are a part of the nation and put faith in its governance or you are occupied people. You cannot say that you will behave like an occupied population but should be treated like a part of the nation. IF you are alienated then what is that Hurriyat or any of the firebrand Kashmiri leaders done to integrate the population to India ? Honestly I have not seen anything of that sort.
A nation like India cannot have its face lost and a bunch of Kashmiris cannot think that they can overcome an institution like Indian Democracy. There are almost a billion people who are not ready to let Kashmir go, who feel that Kashmir is rightfully theirs. Please understand that other side of any democracy is tyranny of the majority.
And honestly I feel you are not talking for Kashmiris, you are talking only for Kashmiri muslims. My feel is that Kashmir freedom is just a pipe dream. Better drop it and look towards a future that is different.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Dear KRS
I understand your concerns but what has India done until now to bring Kashmiris to the negotiating table. Each day we see hundreds of rights violations, why isn’t India doing something about them. Why the so called Indian army behave like dogs unnecessarily using their power over innocent people.
I need to share a small incident. Two months ago, an MLA was passing through an army camp where a major was beating a civilian unnecessarily. The MLA intervened and instead the MLA too was manhandled. When the press contacted the major, his reply was “I AM ARMED WITH AFSPA AND I CAN HARASS ANYBODY AND ENTER ANYBODY’S HOME AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME”. This is the mindset of your army which you call the BEST FORCE in the whole world. Not even a legislator is safe, leave aside the plight of civilians.
Some of you may even call this incident fabricated but thats just because your media an press won’t let you know any news that exposes your democracy.
regards