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Well, the crisis now has ended and the life in Jammu is returning to normal. I am happy that only USER RIGHTS were given to the shrine board and that too rent free. All the agitators in Jammu would also be freed and the government would be paying for all the losses they suffered during their agitation. Again a good gesture by the government. But, what about Kashmir, won’t Kashmiris be pacified. Won’t the fruit growers be compensated. And won’t the innocent protesters, who were murdered, be compensated. Won’t the truck drivers, who were attacked by HINDU FUNDAMENTALISTS, be compensated. Won’t the patients, who suffered because of the unavailability of medicines due to ECONOMIC BLOCKADE, be compensated. If Jammu can be compensated for losses in business caused because of their own agitation, why wont Kashmir be compensated because of the economic blockade they enforced. We have an equal right to be compensated. Or as usual this right would also be denied.

Government should be providing adequate compensation to all the Kashmiris to come out of the trauma they just experienced. At this moment, Kashmiris are feeling estranged and this is the time when the government can win their hearts. The government is considering to open the road to Azad Kashmir unilaterally, and this decision has to be lauded by the masses. But, if the government had already been considering this proposal, why did the troops shoot at innocent protesters killing several people. But the most important incentive to Kashmir is yet to be given, revocation of Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Why doesn’t the government abolish this law?  I, in my personal views feel, that the Security Forces want to credit some more the so called terrorists. The TERRORISTS they kill mostly turn out to be innocent civilians who even don’t know what would be happening to them.  A baker named Inayat-ullah, who was a little bit disturbed mentally, went to the security forces asking them to clear his dues. They asked him to come next time. When he was approaching their camp, the next time, they shot him dead. And later claimed that this UNKNOWN PERSON was trying to enter their camp forcibly even after a warning was issued. Is this what they need AFSPA for? The square where he was killed has been named after him Shaheed Inayat-ullah Chowk, but would it make any difference for his family, they’ve lost him forever.

We, Kashmiris, can be compensated by the government in only one way that is the the revocation of this draconian law. This law has already cost us more than two hundred thousand brothers and we don’t want to loose more. Abolishing this law won’t harm the Indian Government in any way, but indeed, it would help save thousands of Kashmiri lives. It would help us to contest their illegal occupation of our buildings, or houses, our plots, our orchards. It would help us to resist their tyranny. It would help us to live a dignified life without any fear.It would help our women folk to travel fearlessly. It would help us to travel during the night too. And most important of all, these forces can be booked for the crimes they commit against us. The military rule would end and democracy would come into play. A democracy, rather a secular democracy, that rest of India can’t even dream of, until they stop supporting the Saffron Brigade. Lets build the largest secular democracy, or if you are  unwilling, then turn India into a Hindu Republic.