Healing wounds with bullets!
At a time when we talk of peace across the borders with smiling faces and huge expectations, one thing we forget always and that is the need to maintain peace within. The situation created in Kashmir is the gift of the Indian government's attitude.
IT IS tragic to see the reports emerging in the media on the kind of situation prevailing in the so-called crown of India- Kashmir. It feels terrible when you see those pictures of youth of Kashmir pelting stones and facing bullets of armed forces and state police. At a time when we talk of peace across the borders with smiling faces and huge expectations, one thing we forget always and that is the need to maintain peace within.
Time and again, I am made to believe that the alienation that the people of Kashmir talk about is a genuine concern that has evolved over the years because of the callous and complacent attitude of the Central government. Visits of Prime Minister and Home Minister will do what good for the cause of the state when the government fails to control the human rights violation, mass protests, curbing them with force without aggravating the situation. This is simply not helping resolving their genuine concerns and instead what it does is add fuel to the fire of discrimination and alienation.
Separatism is a situation and is not an outcome. The situation created today in Kashmir is the gift of the Indian government’s attitude towards the whole region. Huge grants and development is a welcome step but all this is of no value if a common Kashmiri fails to recognise himself as part of the Indian mainstream and instead feels dejected when youth from his own community are killed one after another for raising their voice against the same act. The youth of Kashmir should be setting examples like Shah Faisal, who topped the civil services and should not become victims of the bullets of security forces.
Various organisations like Hurriyat Conference no doubt act as facilitators to fuel the fire and spread anger and violence but that should be countered effectively. Give a common man in Kashmir no reason to believe the separatist voices but instead acts like firing on civilians and human rights violation make them believe in their ideology.
How can you win hearts of people when every single day people die of bullets fired by security forces? Aren’t our security forces capable enough to protect themselves without making use of any gun? The questions become more relevant when we talk of protests in a place like Kashmir.
There must be a strategy to counter such protests so as to avoid such fatalities. The government must act before it is too late and if they don’t, people have every right to safeguard their interests and if that happens, the Indian state loses the right to call them ‘misguided youth’.
Separatism is a situation and is not an outcome. The situation created today in Kashmir is the gift of the Indian government’s attitude towards the whole region. Huge grants and development is a welcome step but all this is of no value if a common Kashmiri fails to recognise himself as part of the Indian mainstream and instead feels dejected when youth from his own community are killed one after another for raising their voice against the same act. The youth of Kashmir should be setting examples like Shah Faisal, who topped the civil services and should not become victims of the bullets of security forces.
Various organisations like Hurriyat Conference no doubt act as facilitators to fuel the fire and spread anger and violence but that should be countered effectively. Give a common man in Kashmir no reason to believe the separatist voices but instead acts like firing on civilians and human rights violation make them believe in their ideology.
How can you win hearts of people when every single day people die of bullets fired by security forces? Aren’t our security forces capable enough to protect themselves without making use of any gun? The questions become more relevant when we talk of protests in a place like Kashmir.
There must be a strategy to counter such protests so as to avoid such fatalities. The government must act before it is too late and if they don’t, people have every right to safeguard their interests and if that happens, the Indian state loses the right to call them ‘misguided youth’.
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the suggestions made here are missing an important link,i.e. indian people never talk about the disputed nature of kashmir and try to live in their own world of powerhungry world. let them set fulfil the promise made by pt.Nehru to kashmiries everything else will become normal.
agree with you on every account you have mentioned. Kashmir is also a complex issue , not so simple to solve..
I wonder what outcome this is going to result into...
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