KP & OTHERS: It’s "To Each His Own" Mr LG of J&K UT : Lalit k kaul

 

KP & Others: It is “To Each His Own” Mr LG of J&K UT

                           Lalit K Kaul

And not “One Size Fits All” when it comes to killings in Kashmir, Mr LG of J&K UT. While participating in Idea Exchange Program of Indian Express on 25^th December, 2022, Sri Manoj Sinha by stating that “others too had been killed” and that “we must stop seeing these killings from religious angle”, betrayed his total ignorance about the kind and level of barbarism that was inflicted upon the KP Community by Kashmiri Muslim freedom fighters (Tehreek e Azadi leaders) under the banner of their religion by invoking Allah and professing to be in the “Way of Allah” and which led to the near total exodus of the community from their place of birth, culture and heritage.

If his statements didn’t show up his ignorance then, for sure, he was parroting His Master’s (Home Minister) Voice in a desperate attempt to cover up the total failure of his Master’s much touted Kashmir Policy.

The Killings: KP & Others

Both Muslims and Pandits were killed for different reasons. Let there be no confusion on this. It is not the case of “One Size Fits All”, but it is “To Each His Own”.

The Muslims were killed because they chose to wage a war against India to “liberate” Kashmir from her and then decide whether to opt for merger with Pakistan or remain independent. And, this was not done by sudden rush of blood, but had behind it a meticulous planning of nearly two decades and to which the “mainstream” political outfits had covertly contributed.

Prior to eruption of insurgency in late 80s, there were no Muslims killed by Indian paramilitary forces or army. The army did its job on borders and paramilitary forces were deployed in rarest of rare cases where unrest was expected to go beyond control (like when the Holy Relic was found to be missing from Hazratbal Dargah). Therefore, let nobody demonize Indian army and security personnel.

No Nation State tolerates insurgency and therefore those who dare its might only end up paying a heavy price by way of loss of lives. LTTE of Sri Lanka is the example. Mr Manoj Sinha should know that Indian security forces’ response to insurgency can only be elimination of insurgents and no Nation State mourns at annihilation of their cadre. In addition to the legitimate elimination of insurgents by state machinery, the local Muslims were also eliminated by their own “Azadi” gang leaders who felt empowered by shouldering AK 47 only to force into submission a common Muslim else, kill him/her. They also took upon themselves as their duty to eliminate Kashmiri Muslims working in local police and other paramilitary forces.

Those from amongst us who interacted with the “militants” and their supporters know that the loss of lives on their side was considered to be the supreme sacrifice (Sab Sae Aala Qurbaani) to be made for the “cause” and killing of police and paramilitary personnel as their sacred duty for the “cause”. It was very clear that loss of lives was not to be mourned at but to be taken as a stimulus to join the “Tehreek e Azadi” in larger numbers for realizing the object of freeing Kashmir from “Indian occupation”.

The KP community members were disfigured, raped and slaughtered by the cadre and leadership of “Tehreek e Azadi” for two distinct reasons. One, that the Pandit community was stamped as loyal to India and therefore patriots and two, that in an Independent Islamic State of Kashmir, “Kafirs” had no place. Knowing pretty well that 4 to 5 lacs could not be slaughtered in the “Way of Allah”, the KP Community was - by announcements through mosques’ loud speakers; posters pasted on the boundary walls of their houses and by directly threatening them by gate crashing into their houses- offered two choices, 1) convert to Islam and else 2) face death. Slogans like “We will make Pakistan with KP women and without KP men” too rented the air. That was being in tune with “Held by Right Hand” doctrine of their religion.

The seriousness of their threat was displayed by initiating killings of publicly known KP men and kidnappings and rapes of KP women and girls culminating into their murder. Thousands on streets in synchronism with threat wielding loud speakers combined with targeted killings and kidnappings, rapes followed by murders was all pre-planned to strike terror in the very psyche of the KP Community that ensured their exile from their land of birth, culture and heritage. All kidnappings, rapes and murders are documented by historians and if Sri Manoj Sinha desires to get educated I am prepared to provide him with references. The indiscriminate and purpose laden killings of KP community members continued even after their mass exodus and extended up to until 2006.

Courtesy New “Kashmir Policy” the much-touted brainchild of Home Minister, the targeted killings of KP community members started post 5^th August, 2019 reminiscent of 1988/89. That’s the success story of the “Kashmir Policy” of “Loh Purush Incarnate 2”. In fact, when “Loh Purush Incarnate 2” was asked about targeted killings, his nonchalant reply was “Killings have reduced in numbers”! It is reminiscent of Sri V P Singh’s “ Who Pandits”!

Building Houses for KP Community:

This is ultimate display of desperation to sweep under the carpet the symptoms of a failed policy. The rejection of the demand of the PM package employees for relocation because their lives were under threat was again a desperate attempt to assert that normalcy had been restored in the Valley.

It’s understood that building 6000 houses will ensure large sums of money changing hands in “Brashtachar Mukht Bharat” and keep politicians and state machinery well oiled yet, why do it in the name KP community! Who is going to occupy those pigeon holes in view of the experiences of the PM Package employees? More than that, who gave the self proclaimed Desh Bakhts’ government the right to decide on behalf of the KP Community that they would henceforth live in segregated ghettos disjoint from the majority community only to be easily identifiable for direct attacks on their honour, life and property? Or, is it the thesis of “Loh Purush Incarnate 2” that the residents of those houses shall not move out of their barricaded campuses and shall be confined to within the walls for as long as they breathe in and breathe out.

The Trust Deficit:

The “Loh Purush Incarnate 2” and his parrot the LG of J&K UT need to understand that there is a huge Trust deficit between the majority community and the exiled ones and no political outfit has taken any initiative on the ground to reduce the deficit and instead the public statements of local politicians post 5^th Aug 2019 have only widened that trust deficit between the two communities. And, let no thekedar of “Bharat Mata” behave like an ostrich when it comes to accepting the ground reality that the “terrorists” have support of local “mainstream” politicians.

Even a less than an idiot will agree that target killings are direct outcome of the “Kashmir Policy” post 5^th Aug, 2019 and it was publicly stated by Sri Farooq Abdullah not long ago. Sri Farooq Abdullah certainly has his own political axes to grind and the likes of him excel in stoking fires of communalism and anti-India emotions yet it’s beyond debate that the BJP led government in Delhi has failed miserably in the war of perception let loose by the “mainstream” post 5^th Aug, 2019. And, this is singular reason that makes transit of exiled ones back to their earlier places of residence nigh impossible and their residing in New Zoo being built under new “Kashmir Policy” makes them more culpable to the attacks of religiously motivated gun wielding people classified as “terrorists”.

KP Community is not a Sacrificial Goat:

Just to tell the world that normalcy has been restored in Kashmir, the KP Community cannot be made into a Sacrificial Goat by forcing them to occupy the cages in the newly built zoos. No flag of any civilized Nation can be hoisted on the corpses of her own nationals.

And no civilized Nation puts the annihilator and the annihilated one on the same footing.

The “Bharat Mata Kae Sapoot” government has earned lot many political brownie points by masquerading in the Parliament as the sole and whole well wishers of KP Community during the debate on Kashmir Files; while their record on ground is diametrically opposite to their claims in the Parliament. The visual (electronic) media too increased their TRP by conducting debates on Kashmir Files. That the Indian society is too polarized was evident from the fact that while one swore by Kashmir Files the other called it a concocted fiction. Both sides of the divide ended up rubbing salt into the wounds of the KP Community. The comic tragedy of “Bharat Mata” is that it took screening of Kashmir Files (after 32 years of genocide) for her children to know that the aboriginals of Kashmir had been hounded out of it 32 years ago!

While it may be politically expedient for the LG of J&K UT, under constant supervision of his Master, to classify those who committed genocide of KP Community as equal victims of it; yet civilized behaviour demands that genocide of patriotic people not be compared with eliminating insurgents and their supporters.

The best favour the “Bharat Mata Kae Sapoot” government can do to the Exiled KP Community is to leave them free to take their own decisions in their instinct to survive the most adverse and hostile conditions since late 14^th century CE. Else, grant them their Homeland like Uttrakhand, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Telengana were created meeting with the demands of a cross section of people in their erstwhile states. If Indian Subcontinent could be partitioned on religious grounds, why not Kashmir? If Muslims in India demanded a pious place for them because they didn’t want to be ruled by “Kafirs” and were granted so and it need be mentioned here that Sardar Patel was a party to that decision; why a pious place for KP Community can’t be granted because they too don’t want to be a part of the State with  “Believers” majority! It needs a lot of political courage and conviction to debate with the exiled KP Community on their demand of Homeland and much easier to thrust solutions on them even at the cost of making them into a scapegoat.

Therefore, the easiest thing for politically bankrupt class of rulers to do is to let the KP Community take its own decisions and spare them the humiliations of putting their persecutors (religiously & politically motivated) on the same footing as them.