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  • Posted By: H.nazar @ 09/12/2008 9:35:30 AM

    The Kashmiri's were told that they would receive the right to CHOOSE their destiny(By Nehru the liar), the UN has required that the wishes of the Kashmiri people be respected. Now the largest 'democracy,'(India) has 700,000 troops in Indian occupied Kashmir. The Real opposition is placed under house arrest, because they demand FREEDOM from India. The Indian army has killed protestors in the Kashmir valley(muslims), while in Jammu protests are allowed to go ahead unhindered because they are Hindus.
    The Indian state is a colonial power much like the British Raj. Hiding under the garbs of democracy, while denying those same liberties and rights to those it enslaves. Kashmir was never a part of India. The people of Kashmir must be given freedom.
    Amnesty international has documented proof of the Indian army carrying out murders, Gang raping of Kashmiri girls and women,, all this done in the name of democracy. not one soldier has been found guilty.
    If India feels so secure, then allow the UN to carry out a referendum on whether Kashmiri's want union with India or Freedom. then I can tell you now that the Kashmiri's would choose FREEDOM FROM INDIA. I know this because of my day to day contact with the kashmiri community.
    I am astounded that Newsweek has become a propagandist tool for the Indian state and its apologists, whether of indian origin or otherwise. Its seems that when a muslim people are murdered or massacred and their rights denied then the world turns a blind eye, especially when its been going on for the past 60 years. The time is now for Kashmiri's to be free, free from the INDIAN COLONIAL RAJ.

    The Indian government was given an oppurtunity, whereby Pakistan proposed demilitarization of Kashmir(both sides), allowing free movement of Kashmiri's. even this the Indian's did not agree to, because in reality the Indians have no interest in givivg Kashmiri's any rights.

  • Posted By: ergrama @ 09/11/2008 2:21:01 PM

    secession of kashmir will be bad news for kashmir. indian kashmiris should fight to free pok from pakistan and encourage with india for the good of kashmiris. india is politically free for all indians whether they belong to indian kashmir or in darjeeling or in nagaland. all indians are not free economically yet due to disparity in wealth distribution. socially all indians are not free also due to illegal continuation of casre system. indian people should fight against these to free themselves completely. kasmiriris, gurkha land people, nagaland people are politically free, but connected with greater india to maintain strength. united we stand and divided we fall. it is hoped that pakistan, bangla desh, nepal and even tibet will be stand united as greater india and stay stronger. people living in neighboring countries are much less free and independent religiously, economically, politically and socially.

  • Posted By: a_nice_geezer @ 09/11/2008 12:54:18 PM

    Talk about "unbiased" reporting? As if killing kashmiris was not enough for Hindu extremists terrorists, they have now turned on the Christians in Orissa http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne130908HindutvasViolentHistory.asp When will Newsweek get rid off these Hindu extremists ???journalists???? These are more lies and rants! It is a known fact and well documented (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Kashmir Institute of International Relations) that the Hindu fascist Indians are committing gross human rights violations in Kashmir (Murders, kidnapping, rape, and torture).

  • Posted By: a_nice_geezer @ 09/11/2008 12:52:38 PM

    Talk about "unbiased" reporting? As if killing kashmiris was not enough for Hindu extremists terrorists, they have now turned on the Christians in Orissa http://www.tehelka.com/story_main40.asp?filename=Ne130908HindutvasViolentHistory.asp When will Newsweek get rid off these Hindu extremists ???journalists???? These are more lies and rants! It is a known fact and well documented (Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Kashmir Institute of International Relations) that the Hindu fascist Indians are committing gross human rights violations in Kashmir (Murders, kidnapping, rape, and torture).

  • Posted By: ahmad819 @ 09/11/2008 12:23:24 PM

    The Kashmir problem should not be considered in isolation from the rest of the Country. The article on one hand states that the infrastructure and lack of education and industrialization has kept Kashmir poor, and that other parts of India have similar issue. But other parts of India do not enjoy special status, secondly the periodical massacres in India of its ethnic minorities, be it christens, in the riots when two innocent Australian missnories were amoung many that were burned alive. The destruction of the babree mosque ,to the massacres in Gujarat. Muslims probably feel that Kashmir is the only safe place for them, so this decision of granting land was viewed by the kashmiers through the prism of recent India history. Contrary to the author Kashimier ideologically is not a small state. To Pakistanis the Kashmir'es are their religious and cultural kin. For india it is a symbol of its secularism and plurism. To china the vast water resources are crucial. Violence is never the answer, but the solution still lies in the corridors of new Delhi, and the question that need to be asked is not weather Kashmir should get independence, but why after 60 years kashimers still have just reasons make such demands .

  • Posted By: Earthling @ 09/08/2008 4:44:28 AM

    India just scored a great victory as the US succeeded in coercing the interntional community to waive nuclear non-proliferation requirement for the country despite gross human rights violations and brutal crackdown in Kashmir.

    • Posted By: avg joe25 @ 09/08/2008 1:02:57 PM

      you think India will nuke Kashmir? get a life moron.

  • Posted By: iyark @ 09/06/2008 12:25:37 PM

    Fareed Zakeria type idiots are coming to US and corrupting US policies and business enviorment. Just wait for few more years when US population will realize that the biggest invasion happing in the US is not from the south of the border but from rat eating piss drinking india.

    Wake up Republicans these rat eating piss drinking people don't even assimilate in to US culture, forget mexicans deport all indians!!!!

    • Posted By: avg joe25 @ 09/08/2008 1:01:24 PM

      you sound like an expat yourself? "Fareed Zakeria type"? Typical Indian/Paki way of speaking English... Saw your comment about the English of the Indians -- you do not sound Ivy league yourself by any stretch of imagination -- you seem like many of those clueless Porkistani b.s jerks who do nothing.
      Good luck, with Zardari, I am sure you will be very well off pretty soon-- he will go from 10% to 100% and jerks like you will talk trash and kill amongst yourselves -- India will continue to prosper -- they don't care one bit about you or your emotional outbursts...

  • Posted By: Earthling @ 09/08/2008 3:02:18 AM

    These are target killings. It's simple to see," said the doctor, explaining that many of the chest wounds were from weapons such as AK-47s. "Most of these were intended to kill. They were not to disperse a crowd."

    Shabir Ahmed Dar, 22, lay in one hospital bed after three operations. He was shot in the abdomen during a protest march to the Pakistani Kashmir border.

    "There was no warning from the police. They just fired."

    The police firings drew criticism from Human Rights Watch.

    It is not just a hardline response to street protests. Authorities have detained several separatist leaders without charge. Other leaders, many committed to democratic change and who publicly reject militant violence, were in hiding.

    Asiya Andrabi, chief of Kashmir's women's separatist group Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of the Muslim Faith) who had led some of the protests, has been detained under the Public Safety Act that allows for a year in jail without trial.

    The violence still pales in comparison with previous years when officials say more than 43,000 people have been killed in clashes involving Indian troops and Muslim militants since 1989. Human rights groups put the toll at about 60,000 dead or missing.

    For Shameema, a 35-year-old woman who sells bread, the fear of police was clear. She talked about how police smashed her and her family with batons for selling bread under curfew. Her husband displayed a wound to his head.

    She fell silent for a moment as a federal policeman official walked up to her shop, ominously tapping his baton. Then, realizing he could not speak Kashmiri, she talked again.

    "I am scared," she said "But we have nowhere to go."

  • Posted By: Earthling @ 09/08/2008 3:02:01 AM

    In rare criticism last week, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on India to avoid using excessive force. It drew a rebuke from India for interfering in its affairs.

    For decades there has been simmering resentment at the hundreds of thousands of Indian troops stationed in Kashmir, making it one of the most militarized regions on earth.

    Roadblocks, verbal abuse from soldiers and raids on homes have long been a part of daily life.

    But as protests spiraled in August, the government sent in battalions of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), a federal police force of mainly Hindus who do not speak Kashmiri. Strangers to Kashmir, most residents appear to despise them.

    In interviews in Srinagar and nearby villages, tales were similar: CRPF beatings, night raids on homes, verbal abuse and smashed windows. Life has been worse than in previous years.

    "They are not human," said Raja, a villager from Newtheed less than an hour's drive from the city. She said soldiers smashed up her home, shouting "We'll show you what freedom is".

    In Srinagar, the CRPF has taken over from the local Kashmiri police to enforce curfews and riot control. Residents complain of abuse at the slightest provocation -- selling bread, buying milk.

    One surgeon, who asked to remain anonymous because of fear of retribution from Indian authorities, said he has received around 400 wounded people in three weeks, 150 of them hit by bullets.

  • Posted By: Earthling @ 09/08/2008 2:48:32 AM

    Rage in Kashmir meets India's brute force
    Tue Sep 2, 2008 2:27am EDT
    By Alistair Scrutton

    SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - The world's largest democracy locks up protest leaders without charge, shoots dozens of demonstrators dead, beats and intimidates ordinary citizens and raids homes without warrants.

    Welcome to Indian Kashmir, where the biggest separatist protests in two decades have clashed with the might of the state.

    "They are ruthless, trigger happy," said Ghulam Rasool Bhat, a laborer who says he was beaten by federal police after he tried to buy milk for his two nephews under a curfew in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir.

    He lay in a bed, both legs bandaged where a soldier, shouting "Get your milk from Pakistan" had smashed a rifle into his shins. His legs felt, he said, as if in a continuous cramp.

    Police have shot dead at least 35 Muslim protesters in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley after a row over land for a Hindu shrine spiraled into marches and strikes against Indian rule.

    More than 1,000 people have been wounded in clashes over three weeks, hospital officials and police say, with the Kashmir Valley often under curfew. Hundreds of people have suffered police baton beatings and bullet wounds, doctors say.

  • Posted By: iyark @ 09/07/2008 9:34:10 AM

    Lou where are you when we need you!!

    focus on these indians who are destroying our culture, jobs, dunkin donuts and gas stations.

    Dr. Savage where is culture, border, language cry!!!

    Minuteman to keep US clean from rat eating piss drinking people of india

  • Posted By: iyark @ 09/07/2008 9:32:03 AM

    These rat eating piss drinking indians take our jobs and don't even speak proper english. its about time to wake up and deport these scums back to their gutter name india.

    Minuteman to keep US clean from rat eating piss drinking people of india

  • Posted By: iyark @ 09/06/2008 12:31:21 PM

    deport all hindu fantatics like RSS/VHP from US

    Message from:

    Real Minuteman to keep US clean from rat eating piss drinking people of india

  • Posted By: iyark @ 09/06/2008 12:28:47 PM

    deport all hindu fantatics lik RSS likes from US

    Minuteman to keep US clean from rat eating piss drinking people of india

  • Posted By: iyark @ 09/06/2008 12:27:08 PM

    Want earth cleaner destroy india!!

  • Posted By: iyark @ 09/06/2008 12:26:01 PM

    Fareed Zakeria type idiots are coming to US and corrupting US policies and business enviorment. Just wait for few more years when US population will realize that the biggest invasion happing in the US is not from the south of the border but from rat eating piss drinking india.

    Wake up Republicans these rat eating piss drinking people don't even assimilate in to US culture, forget mexicans deport all indians!!!!

  • Posted By: iyark @ 09/06/2008 12:25:48 PM

    Fareed Zakeria type idiots are coming to US and corrupting US policies and business enviorment. Just wait for few more years when US population will realize that the biggest invasion happing in the US is not from the south of the border but from rat eating piss drinking india.

    Wake up Republicans these rat eating piss drinking people don't even assimilate in to US culture, forget mexicans deport all indians!!!!

  • Posted By: iyark @ 09/06/2008 12:25:28 PM

    Fareed Zakeria type idiots are coming to US and corrupting US policies and business enviorment. Just wait for few more years when US population will realize that the biggest invasion happing in the US is not from the south of the border but from rat eating piss drinking india.

    Wake up Republicans these rat eating piss drinking people don't even assimilate in to US culture, forget mexicans deport all indians!!!!

  • Posted By: penn @ 09/06/2008 11:05:40 AM

    Reading this article feels exam???????????????????????????

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