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United Nations Has Failed The Kashmiri
People: World Body Unfit for Purpose |
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September 3, 2008 KMS -- “Certainly,
terrorists cannot compose the entire
populations of the major towns, villages and
city of Indian-Occupied Kashmir. And more than
one million people cannot be instigated and
provoked by a remote control. The presence of
more than one million people at Martyr’s
cemetery on August 22, 2008 reflect the true
nature of the peaceful Kashmiri resistance
movement and not a movement of terrorism,”
said Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Executive Director,
Kashmiri American Council/Kashmir Center
during a seminar entitled, “Kashmir Dispute:
Setting a Stage for a Settlement” at ISNA
Convention in Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. Fai said if all the people of the Vale of
Kashmir are the agents of “Azadi”, then that
by itself removes the ground from India's
claim to the territory. The speakers included:
Congressman Dan Burton, Republican from
Indiana; Lord Nazir Ahmed, Member, British
House of Lords; Ambassador Yusuf Buch, former
Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary
General; Mr. harsh Mander, Country Director,
Action Aid, India; Dr. Ghulam N. Mir,
President, world Kashmir Freedom Movement.
Congressman Burton said, Kashmir’s political
status has been disputed almost since the
subcontinent was partitioned in 1947. Although
the 1949 U.N. cease-fire agreement, and U.N.
Resolution of April 21, 1948, August 13, 1948,
January 5, 1949, to name a few, all rejected
India’s claim of accession of the region to
India, and declared that the state’s future
would be determined by its citizens through a
free and impartial plebiscite, no plebiscite
has ever been held.” Congressman noted that
India claims to be the world’s largest
democracy, and like any other great democracy,
its soldiers should be and must be held to a
higher standard of conduct. Yet, India’s
insistence on resolving a political problem by
force has dragged it down in to a campaign of
essentially lawless state terrorism.
Congressman said that United Nations has not
lived upto its responsibilities. He urged the
United Nations and the U.S. Administration to
become involved in the Kashmir dispute so as
the resolve the issue to the satisfaction of
the people of the state.
Amb. Yusuf Buch said, “The posture of
admitting no wrong which remains habitually
Indian is receiving much encouragement from
the very world powers that loudly swear a
commitment to human rights. The encouragement
is afforded by the very potent means of
studied silence over the violations being
committed in Kashmir, no matter how rampant.
Let me cite an example. How many times, in and
out of season, we have been reminded of a
particular occurrence in Tiananmen Square some
years ago? The reported wrong committed there
on that ill-fated day has taken place, even
though in a different manner, a number of
times in and out of Srinagar. Have we heard a
word, even a whisper, about gardens being
turned into graveyards, about young women
being raped and their mothers being forced to
witness the atrocity, about young men being
crippled and maimed for life, about the great
numbers of fake disappearances which are
continuing to this day in occupied Kashmir? It
will glibly be said that it points only to the
failure of the media. But have not the media
been influenced and deterred from an
aggressive, truth-revealing course by official
policies sedulously maintained?”
Amb. Buch maintained “This respectful
protection provided to the occupation regime
in Kashmir by governments and media is a most
depressing example of the double standards
that are maintained in upholding the values
which were enshrined in the United Nations
Charter. These values, though entirely
secular, had enough resonance in them to turn
them into a reliable counter-force against the
irrational extremism which does not originate
in religion. However, they have now been
robbed of their appeal, turned into mere tools
of policy by the world powers, invoked in one
situation and completely forgotten in another,
even if closely comparable. You cannot
successfully fight a war against extremism
while fertilizing the sense of injustice that
is one of the roots of extremism. You cannot
overcome the religious extremism if you keep
supplying them proof that, for redressing
injustice, peaceful secular processes are but
a pretence or a trap. What principles and
instruments do Pakistan and Kashmiris invoke
for the redress of the wrongs inflicted on
them? Not any conceived and inspired solely by
their religion. They call for adherence to
principles which are recognized by the Charter
as basic to a peaceful and stable world order.
The self-determination of peoples which have a
defined and recognized individuality and
fulfillment of international agreements
constitute the sum and substance of their
claim. The documents the Kashmiris rely upon
were not drawn up in mosques. They were
composed by western hands in the Security
Council of the United Nations. Yet they engage
as much interest today as they would if they
had been written by Muslim clerics in a
phraseology bearing a religious aura.”
Mr. Harsh Mander said that youth across
Kashmir give voice to feelings of loss,
anguish and despair. These sombre themes — of
suffering, loss, fear and despair — that were
to recur in many dialogues I held with young
men and women of the Kashmir valley, in
universities, cottage industries and farms; I
was invited as part of International People’s
Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in
Kashmir, convened by human rights activists
Parvez Imroz and Angana Chatterji. Many youth
talk of mass graves and custodial killings: of
fathers who were “disappeared” by security
forces and the family’s aching wait for those
who would never return. A young shawl maker,
Shafi, speaks of three brothers in his village
whose father “disappeared”, and all the boys
became thieves. “Without fathers to guide
them, so many boys have become awara lafanga
(vagabonds),” adds another. One college
student said that his father was for long
stretches in custody, because he was suspected
of sympathy with militant groups. “As a child,
I was often angry with my father, because I
felt he had brought us so much suffering. I
would not even talk to him. But now in
college, I endorse his beliefs.” They spoke
also of despair breeding a culture of drugs,
and the culture of lawless violence ensured
that drugs were freely available at every
street-corner.
Mr. Mander said that “Even in small towns, you
encounter even today bullet-proof tanks
stationed on busy market squares, and surly
soldiers armed with deadly weapons at every
turn. The soldiers themselves dread their
postings to Kashmir. Separated from their
families, they tell me: “We are lonely. We
detest the winter cold, and the long hours. We
are forced to stand at our posts with our guns
from early morning till late into the night.
But worse still is that the local people hate
us so much. We are therefore always worried
for our lives.”
Dr. Ghulam N. Mir said that Indian armed
forces committed unprecedented atrocities on
people of Jammu and Kashmir but failed to
break the morale of the people. He said the
Kashmir dispute is primarily the issue of
self-determination which is a basic principle
of the UN Charter. Inability to resolve this
issue, he pointed out, is directly affecting
the peace and stability of the region. Dr. Mir
noted that although the composite dialogue
began four years ago there has been little
progress because of India’s intransigence. The
Indian government is not sincere on this issue
and her aim is to prolong the negotiations. He
called upon all civilized nations to stand by
just cause of Kashmir and impress upon India
to grant them their birth right that is right
to self determination as guaranteed by the
United Nations resolution and pledged by India
and Pakistan before comity of nations. |
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