Mazahmat October Edition

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A monthly collection of significant
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Volume 1, Issue 11
O c t o b e r 2 0 2 1
Kashmir Civilian Killings Raises the
Specter of BJP’s Communal Politics
Dismissing Employees Part of Indian
Agenda to Suppress Kashmiri Voice
at Every Platform
Jammu Wakes up to
Indian Subterfuge

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Dismissing Employees Part of Indian Agenda to Suppress Kashmiri Voice at Every Platform
Kashmiris Yearn for Right to Self-Defence
Jammu Wakes up to Indian Subterfuge
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Indian State Coopting Social Media Giants to Muffle Kashmiri Voices
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Kashmir Civilian Killings Raises the Specter of BJP’s Communal Politics

4. Throughout India the Hindu nationalist
Bharatiye Janata Party is reeling under
frustra-tion because of electoral defeats,
corruption scandals, policy failures and so on.
However, as the assembly elections in the
largest Indian State Utter Pradesh comes
closer, the Party is trying to reiterate its faith
in anti-Muslim propa-ganda and Islamophobia.
This time the target seems to be Kashmir.
For decades the Indian State has harbored the
fantasies about Kashmir on communal as well as
secularist terms to illegally incorporate the
disputed region, denying history of the region.
The Hindu nationalist government in India relies
on communal politics to dominate the region.
Therefore, the anti-Kashmir, especially the
anti-Muslim policies of the past few years, aimed
at changing the demography of Kashmir to
transform the region into a Hindu dominated
State are the on-going agenda.
However, in order to implement its hardline
Hindutva policies in Kashmir, the party needs to
be in power in New Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh is
instrumental to determine that. The crippling
economy, disaster caused by failure to contain
Covid-19 and other crime incidents has made it
difficult for the party to again win the elections.
The Islamophobic events in the state have drawn
international condemnation. For this reason,
Kashmir seems to be the easy target since the
issue has long tested the moral and ethical stand-
ing of the Indian public, and the human sympathy
seems long fatigued.
Present communal killings in Kashmir seems to be
the preparation for the long-term agenda related
to elections in India. In one week seven Kashmiri
civilians were killed—two Muslims, two Hindus
and a Sikh. The civilian killings are reminiscent of
the 1990s planned killings and expulsion of Kash-
miri Hindu community by the Indian State agen-
cies as an excuse to carry out operations against
Kashmiri Muslims. Hundreds of people have been
killed since the Indian State abrogated the auton-
omy of Kashmir in 2019 and their bodies have not
been returned to their families.
Kashmir Civilian Killings Raises the Specter
of BJP’s Communal Politics
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References:
TRT: October 08, 2021
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/back-to-back-civilian-killings-rattle-indian-administered-kashmir-50553
Bhat Burhan: January 17, 2021
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kashmiri-families-begging-for-their-sons-bodies-back

5. Dismissing Employees Part of Indian
Agenda to Suppress Kashmiri Voice
at Every Platform
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References:
Rifat Fareed: May 17, 2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/17/kashmir-employees-sacked-for-threatening-security-of-state
As Indian State continues its crackdown on Kashmiris, one of the targets is
Kashmir’s civil administration. Historically the Indian state has used Kashmir’s
civil administration as an important apparatus to realize its occupation of
Kashmir. However, the present Hindu nationalist government of Indian
seems not to discriminate between those Kashmiris whose weakness has
been exploited by the state in the past and those who actively resist Indian
presence in Kashmir.
Recently, at least 11 government officers, who spoke a
language of Kashmiri resistance or showed sign of anti-Indi-
anness, have been dismissed from different posts of Kashmiri
administration. Besides, a number of Muslims has been
transferred from top posts which have been now allocated to
Hindus. All this comes in the midst of the looming specter of
the demographic change and construction of Kashmir as a
Dogra-era like Hindu State.

6. Even since the Indian State took control of the disputed region of Kashmir
against the will of Kashmiri people, grave human rights abuse have been
recorded. Torture, murder, rape and destruction are an important part of the
collective memory of Kashmiris. These human rights violations have peaked
during the past three decades of Kashmir's resistance to Indian military
occupation. Another significant turn the history of Kashmir was the abro-
gation of Kashmir’s residual autonomy that put Kashmiris and Kashmir com-
pletely into the clutches of the Hindutva State and military. Torture, death
and suppression have normalized. There is no sign of life in Kashmir as
people have been paralyzed economically, politically as well as culturally.
Amid the growing of oppression there is a yearning for United Nations’
intervention and invocation of the UN resolutions on Responsibility to
Protect to restrain Indian war crimes and crimes against humanity. Recently
many UN and EU bodies and other countries, including Pakistan and Turkey,
have warned of dire human rights situation in Kashmir. However, with the
world’s major powers favoring India at the moment, Kashmir’s suffering
remains unabated.
Kashmiris Yearn for Right
to Self-Defence
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References:
Mehmood Hussain and Sumara Mehmood: February 18, 2021
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/mwjhr-2020-0017/html
Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/INDIA935.PDF
Hilal Mir: June 01, 2021
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/un-experts-concerned-over-rights-abuses-in-kashmir/2260057

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References:
Naseer Ganai: October 11, 2021
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/in-
dia-news-bjps-jammu-conundrum-traders-protest-against-outsiders-running-away-with-business-like-e
ast-india-company/305058
Muhammad Raafi: November 11, 2020
https://thewire.in/rights/jammu-kashmir-amendments-article-370-bjp
Muhammad S. Zaafir: September 21, 2021
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/894132-revolt-in-hindu-dominated-jammu-against-bjp-policies
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When the Hindu nationalist party of India abro-
gated the residual autonomy of Kashmir in
August 2019, the majority of Hindus of Jammu
region celebrated the move as a victory for Hindus
against the Muslim majority Kashmir Valley. How-
ever, their celebrations were short lived as the real
agenda and policies of the Indian State related to
the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir
began to unfold. As the Indian State is making
move after move to change demography of the
disputed region, granting the contracts and other
trade and tax benefits to Indians, Jammu Hindus
have started to feel the heat. Now the Jummuaits
are protesting regularly against Modi govern-
ment.
The Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industry
had called for a day-long shutdown in protest
against various decisions of the Indian govern-
ment, including a new excise policy, new geology
and mining policies, and the proposed opening of
a chain of Reliance Retail stores. JCCI president
Arun Gupta said they don’t want people from
outside to come to Jammu and “start ruling the
way East India Company was ruling India”. Traders
are finding it hard to believe that the government
would act against the interests of the “nationalists
of Jammu, who have supported the abrogation of
Article 370”. Some brazenly point out that they
had expected only people in Kashmir to “suffer
due to the anti-India sentiment in the Valley”.
Jammu Wakes up to
Indian Subterfuge

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References:
Aljazeera: October 01, 2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/1/kashmir-report-accuses-us-social-media-giants-of-censorship
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Indian State Coopting Social Media
Giants to Muffle Kashmiri Voices
The reports about the silencing of Kashmiri voices
on different media forms, and intimidation of jour-
nalists, teachers and academicians are usual.
However, it is the first time that a Kashmiri civil
society group based abroad has produced a con-
crete report on cooptation of social media giants
like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by the
Indian State in silencing the Kashmiri voices. The
report establishes that there has been a frequent
suspension of the accounts of artists, academics,
and journalists based in and outside the disputed
region.
A 30-page report by the Stand With Kashmir
(SWK), titled “How social media corporations
enable silence on Kashmir”, establishes that since
2017, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other
social media platforms have continually silenced
Kashmir-related content. In August 2019, when
the Indian government scrapped the region’s
semi-autonomous status, it imposed a sweeping
communication and internet shutdown in the
region.
An advocacy group last year reported that India
topped the list of internet shutdowns in the world
among 129 countries as 109 of total 155 internet
shutdowns took place in the country. SWK
spokesperson told a news organization: “Since
August 2019, the level of censorship of Kashmiri
voices in person but also on social media has only
increased. Kashmiris already have no avenues to
express themselves in person. Social media
provided an outlet for them. Not only is the Indian
government going after Kashmiri social media
users in Kashmir, but social media companies are
also complicit in censoring Kashmiris by removing
content, blocking important accounts that
provide information, and restricting the reach of
content. This is unacceptable.”

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