[nukkad] secula(??) media

[Akshay Joshi <>]

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hi people,
  here is an excerpt from an article by jagmohan that highlights the plight
of kashmiri pandits.i am ashamed to belong to a country that cares little
about the unfortunate children of the majority community whose only fault
lay in the tolerant religion they practiced. as if being driven away from
their homes maybe permanently was not enough anybody who supported them has
been branded communal by the pseudo-secularist congress n left front.i have
never seen these facts being highlighted by the english secular media.
as for gujrat they seem all too eager to scream genocide.genocide is when an
entire race is attempted to be wiped out by the state n millions r killed.
do they even know what genocide means. i shall tell u in chronological
order.
* mass slaughter of jews n moslems in millions the crusades from 10097 to
1296 means genocide.
* killing entire hindu populations from 11th to 16th century by islamic
invaders means genocide.
* eliminating aboriginal races by colonialist powers in USA(Red indians) n
australia(aborgines) n latin america(incas mayas etc)means    genocide
* killing of 1.5 million armenian christians in islamic turkey in 1917 means
genocide.
* 6 million jews by hitler n 10 million ukrainians by stalin means genocide.
* extolling 3 lkh pundits from kashmir means genocide.

the above is genocide --  n not some riots wherein 200 from one community n
800 from other r killed n that too when in retaliation to burning of
innocent women n children by some oversmart,pampered community.by needlessly
hiding hindu damage n exagerbating the muslim one the media as usual is
doing a great disservice to the nation n demenaing it in the eyes of the
world. in the yugoslav bombing by NATO 1500 civilians were killed but i have
never heard CNN claiming GENOCIDE.how stupid of ourselves.some stern action
is required against the english media.

here is the excerpt from the article if anybody cares for the kashmiri's any
longer.

<<Whatever be the vicissitudes of the Kashmiri Pandits' history and whatever
unkind quirks their fate might have brought to them in the past, these all
pale into insigficance in companison to what is happening to them at
present. The grim tragedy is compounded by the equally grim irony that one
of the most intelligent subtle, versatile, and proud community of the
country is being virtually reduced to extinction in free India. It is
suffering not under the fanatic zeal of mediaeval Sultans like Sikander or
under the tyrannical regime of Afghan Governors, but under the supposedly
secular rule of leaders like you, V.P. Singh and others who unabashed search
for personal and political power is symbolised by calculated disregard of
the Kashmiri migrants' current miserable plight and the terrible future that
stares in their eyes. And to fill their cup of pain and anguish, there are
bodies like 'Committee for Initiative on Kashmir' which are over-anxious and
over active to rub salt into their wounds, and to label anyone who wants to
stand by them in their hour of distress as communal.

In a soft, superficial, permissive and, in many ways, cruel India which has
the tragic distinction of creating over one lakh refugees from its own flesh
and blood and then casting them aside like masterless cattle to fend for
themselves on the busy and heartless avenues of soulless cities, chances for
Kashmiri Pandits to survive as a distinct community are next to nothing.
Split, scattered and deserted practically by all, they stand today all
alone, looking hopelessly at a leaking, rudderless, boat at their feat and
extremely rough and tumultuous sea to face before they can reach a safe
shore across to plant their feet firmly on an assured future.

The deep crisis through which the Kashmiri migrants, or for that matter, the
entire Kashmir, is passing is really the crisis of Indian values - the
perversion, in practice, of its constitutional, political, social and moral
norms. If I visited the camps of the refugees and tried to extend the firm
hand of justice to a community in pain, if I instructed that, instead of
cash doles, the migrant Government servants should be given leave salary,
and if I conceded the demand of a widow of the person brutally killed by a
terrorist, for allotment of a house on payment, I became communal, a known
anti-Muslim, about whom concoted stories were planted in the press. If, on
the other hand, someone falsely accused the Indian Army and the Governor's
administration, if he assailed Jagmohan in particular, of giving inducements
through provisions of plots and trucks, without giving particulars either of
plots or of trucks, his accusations got published all over the press, his
reports were flaunted in national and international forums and were
copiously quoted in Parliament by the members of your party and he was
labelled as secular and progressive and champion of human rights and what
not. Hard Evidence about 'Jagmohan Factor'. I do not like to refer to
anything that looks like indulging in self-praise. But not to let you get
away with your calculated campaign of disinformation, about Jagmohan
communal factor, I must invite attention to some hard evidence about what
the people of the Valley actually thought about me before you and your
proteges started the smear campaign on my appointment for the second term.

Your principal prop of current politics of Kashmir, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, was
not to be left behind in the drive launched to create an 'anti-Muslim' image
of mine. In his interview published in the Times of India of August 30,
1990, he said, "A known anti-Muslim was appointed as Governor of a Muslim
majority state". How untrue, how unfair, was the propaganda, should be
obvious from the fact that on November 7, 1986, at the time of his
swearing-in-ceremony, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, in a public speech for which the
records exist, said: "Governor Sahib, we should need you very badly. It is,
indeed, amazing that such remarkable work could be done by you in a short
time through an imbecile and faction-ridden bureaucracy. If today three
ballot boxes are kept - one for the National Conference, one for the
Congress and one for you, your ballot box would be full while the other two
ballot boxes would be empty".

The misfortune of our country is that we have leaders like Dr. Farooq
Abdullah who have no regard for facts or truth and whose superficiality is
matched only by their unprincipled politics.>>

    - - akshay


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