Human Tragedy

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Human Tragedy

News: 7^th Std kid shot dead by Army in Chennai when he entered their residential complex (To collect almonds)

Only a few days back I heard a few prominent Kashmirs’ discussing situation in Kashmir when one speaker touched the point of impunity with which security personnel operate in Kashmir and other troubled parts of India.

Killing innocent people for gallantry & monetary awards or just killing people because they are mere suspects and then they are not accounted for their actions.

Other crimes like abuse, rape, humiliation and demeaning behaviour are used as suppressive tools.

When these security personnel get used to such behaviour the chances of behaving them in similar way when they are moved to un-troubled parts are more.

This incident looks like part of same cycle.

PS:

I read this news article on of the Indian news channels website and comments posted by people about the incident were too shocking.

Majority of people there have no sympathy with the poor boy, they are blindly supporting army because they are protectors and fight enemy. Even some calling it a “trivial issue”

I don’t know what has blinded them and why can’t they see any human tragedy here. And may be same reason doesn’t let them feel the agony Kashmir’s are going through.

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Death Toll in Kashmir since June 29, 2009

Tens of thousands of Kashmiris have died seeking independence. We don't have an exact count of the dead since 1989, however, different sources put the death toll between 40000 to 100,000[1][2][3][4]. For human rights, we keep an exact count of the civilian deaths by police, paramilitary and army, since June 29, 2009. We will also keep account of those who disappeared in the custody of police, paramilitary and army and those who were killed by unidentified gunmen or got killed in grenade attacks or cross fires. Starting from January 2010, we will start including the names of those who die.

killed by police, paramilitary, army: 17(Wamiq Farooq, Age 14; Zahid Farooq, Age 16;Zubair Ahmed Bhat, 17; Riyaz Ahmad, Shahzad Ahmad and Mohammad Shafi (fake encounter) ) + 111 (since June 11, 2010)

Disappeared Since June 29, 2009: 0

Killed By Unidentified Gunmen : 6(Ghulam Nabi Khan, 52)

Killed in Grenade attacks, cross fires: 3

Killed by protestors, stone pelters etc.: 3(Irfan, Age 10 days;37 year old man;Aisha)

Number of Strike Days in Kashmir Starting June 29, 2009

A typical strike in Kashmir means employees skip work, schools, colleges and universities don't run and public transport is off the roads. Since the beginning of the struggle against India in Kashmir, people have observed numerous strikes to tell the world that Kashmiris are suffering. I think strike is a peaceful tool that needs to be used sparingly, but it has been abused in Kashmir and it seems like it has lost its significance. It only adds to the sufferings of the people of Kashmir and leads to a poor work culture.

The purpose of this count is to let the people of kashmir rethink this strategy and also to let the world know that millions of people somewhere want to tell you something through these strikes. although there were at least 10 days lost in June 2009, that I know of, because of strikes, I chose not to include them here since I don't have an accurate account. We will begin a counter to keep track of the strike days in Kashmir from June 29, 2009.

Number of Strike Days in Kashmir since june 29, 2009: 30+101 (since June 11, 2010)