LONDON - British parliamentarian George Galloway has said the Kashmiris simply want plebiscite which was promised to them by the UN and former prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.
While addressing the seminar at the UN in Geneva “Defending the Democratic Processes”, the veteran campaigner on Kashmir said due to crime committed by the British empire the sufferings of the Kashmiris were greater than the Palestinians.
Some 80,000 had died in the more than 20 years freedom struggle, uncountable numbers had been wounded and maimed, Galloway said. Mass imprisonment and exile and even the use of rape as a tool of occupation had been the lot of the Kashmiris, he added. And yet, he said, the only demand of the occupied people of Kashmir was for the right to vote. The same right the West claims to support in the Arab spring for the Libyans and the Syrians, he said. Galloway hailed Indian author Arundhati Roy who was crying out for justice for the people of occupied Kashmir and said that Kashmir was never the part of India.
Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Kashmiri American Council Kashmir Center Executive Director, said the year of 2011 had proved one of the most dramatic periods in recent history. The citizens in a number of countries (Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen) had protested long-entrenched oppressive regimes and toppled them for restoring democracy.Fai said there were several situations where protest against long-standing occupation and oppression remained frustrated in spite of the rights inherent with the right to self-determination and the will of people as the basis of political power. A major case of this was the situation in Kashmir, where the citizenry protested peacefully against the occupying Indian forces to no avail, in spite of UN Security Council resolutions giving them the right to a plebiscite under UN auspices.
Dr Fai quoted President Obama who said in the Indian Parliament on November 10, 2010, that India should not shy away from taking a hard position on human rights violations in Myanmar. But unfortunately, Obama did shy away from taking a hard position on human rights violations in Kashmir, despite the fact the United States was the principle sponsor of the resolution which was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on April 21, 1948. This resolution clearly states that the future of Kashmir must be ascertained in accordance with the wishes and the will of the people.
Dr Fai said on one hand the world powers denounced Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait as it was against the norms and the principles of international relations. But they were silent over the occupation of Kashmir by India which was a share violation of international norms and United Nations Security Council resolutions. Dr Karen Parker, IED delegate to the United Nations, said the United Nations had determined many years ago that the Kashmiri people had the right to self-determination and also set up a plan for materialising the same. The Kashmir situation continued to haunt the world powers, especially when India and Pakistan had been declared nuclear powers. The Kashmiri people continue to suffer from serious human rights and humanitarian laws violations in the course of India’s military actions against them, he added. Parker said review of the current situation of the Kashmiri peoples’ right to self-determination showed it had been reduced to political rhetoric or was even absent from discussions. However, ignoring the right could not annul it. Altaf Wani, Representative of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference, said the practice of self-determination usually requires a democratic process to determine the choice of a people when exercising that right.
While addressing the seminar at the UN in Geneva “Defending the Democratic Processes”, the veteran campaigner on Kashmir said due to crime committed by the British empire the sufferings of the Kashmiris were greater than the Palestinians.
Some 80,000 had died in the more than 20 years freedom struggle, uncountable numbers had been wounded and maimed, Galloway said. Mass imprisonment and exile and even the use of rape as a tool of occupation had been the lot of the Kashmiris, he added. And yet, he said, the only demand of the occupied people of Kashmir was for the right to vote. The same right the West claims to support in the Arab spring for the Libyans and the Syrians, he said. Galloway hailed Indian author Arundhati Roy who was crying out for justice for the people of occupied Kashmir and said that Kashmir was never the part of India.
Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, Kashmiri American Council Kashmir Center Executive Director, said the year of 2011 had proved one of the most dramatic periods in recent history. The citizens in a number of countries (Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen) had protested long-entrenched oppressive regimes and toppled them for restoring democracy.Fai said there were several situations where protest against long-standing occupation and oppression remained frustrated in spite of the rights inherent with the right to self-determination and the will of people as the basis of political power. A major case of this was the situation in Kashmir, where the citizenry protested peacefully against the occupying Indian forces to no avail, in spite of UN Security Council resolutions giving them the right to a plebiscite under UN auspices.
Dr Fai quoted President Obama who said in the Indian Parliament on November 10, 2010, that India should not shy away from taking a hard position on human rights violations in Myanmar. But unfortunately, Obama did shy away from taking a hard position on human rights violations in Kashmir, despite the fact the United States was the principle sponsor of the resolution which was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on April 21, 1948. This resolution clearly states that the future of Kashmir must be ascertained in accordance with the wishes and the will of the people.
Dr Fai said on one hand the world powers denounced Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait as it was against the norms and the principles of international relations. But they were silent over the occupation of Kashmir by India which was a share violation of international norms and United Nations Security Council resolutions. Dr Karen Parker, IED delegate to the United Nations, said the United Nations had determined many years ago that the Kashmiri people had the right to self-determination and also set up a plan for materialising the same. The Kashmir situation continued to haunt the world powers, especially when India and Pakistan had been declared nuclear powers. The Kashmiri people continue to suffer from serious human rights and humanitarian laws violations in the course of India’s military actions against them, he added. Parker said review of the current situation of the Kashmiri peoples’ right to self-determination showed it had been reduced to political rhetoric or was even absent from discussions. However, ignoring the right could not annul it. Altaf Wani, Representative of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference, said the practice of self-determination usually requires a democratic process to determine the choice of a people when exercising that right.
It is his opinion..
ReplyDeletewho cares :) let him rant...we know about his scam .
He is not prime minister of UK..
(Humble Call)
ReplyDeleteMission Free Kashmir is a politico diplomatic concern aimed at emancipation of whole Kashmir from forced colonial rule and its reunification.
HISTORY: Before 1947 whole Kashmir was a united sovereign country. After the Independence of India from British Rule and the emergence of two countries India and Pakistan. Kashmir was occupied by both through military might and bloody line was drawn between on the hearts of Kashmiris. Thus the sovereignty and freedom of whole Kashmir was eroded and curbed.
MOTIVE: Peaceful struggle through politico-diplomatic ways for emancipation of both parts from colonial rule.
SACRIFICES: Kashmiri people have so far sacrificed about five lakh human beings regardless of age and gender during these 63 years of struggle against colonial rule. The toll of deaths during the last twenty years has risen to one lakh ten thousand humans. Excluding those10 thousand who have disappeared in custody.
Custodial killings, fake encounters and torture deaths are the order of the day.
The peaceful protesters are indiscriminately fired upon and killed, maimed and disabled.
The chastity of woman folk regardless of age is violated.
Thousands are languishing in interrogation centers, torture cells and prisons in unhygienic condition. Indian judiciary is devoid of providing justice. Properties worth trillions of rupees was so far blazed, damaged or raised to ground
The infant chaps were stuffed bullets instead of loaves of food.
APPEAL:
We appeal the world community including the peoples of India and pakistan, rise above interest of any sort and kindly come to the rescue of people of Kashmir in their Mission Free Kashmir
Mohammad Yousuf Naqash
Chief Patron
Mission Free Kashmir
Srinagar
"May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give Victory to the People of Kashmir"
ReplyDeleteAll the nations know that Indian government and the scaremongering Army has and are doing war crimes on the innocent people of Kashmir and have blood on their hands of the Muslim`s I say give back the freedom to the people of Kashmir.
The land belongs to the people Kashmir FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM Well said MP George Galloway we don,t need the prime minster of UK to stand up for us it`s people like George Galloway we need and you the people who say you are part of Kashmir WAKE UP and don`t support the Indian Government and their Evil industry`s From Films to Cloths Boycott India.
Since 1989, an estimated 40,000 Kashmiris have been killed by the Indian forces stationed in Kashmir. For the last five years the people of the State have intensified their efforts in order to invite the attention of the world community towards the "Kashmir Dispute", though the people of the State had been fighting for their just cause peacefully for the last forty eight years. Indian Government throughout these four decades has been suppressing the people by illegal use of force, putting them into the jails/ Interrogation centres etc. under draconian laws. Whenever any person demanded holding of " Plebiscite", he has been put behind the bars.
The Indian Forces, stationed in Kashmir, have been given a free hand to kill any person they choose. These powers have been given to them under the draconian laws like "Disturbed Areas Act of 1990" and "Indian Armed Forces Act of 1990". Indifference shown by world community to the miseries of people, have encouraged and given a free hand to armed forces, to deal with the people, as they like. In October 1992, the Indian Armed forces started to intensify the killing of people immediately after their arrest. These operations have been carried out under the code name of "Operation Tiger", "Operation Eagle" and "Operation Shiva". Now the armed forces have resorted to another policy of "Catch and Kill" which means that no sooner a person is taken into custody, within minutes he is brutally tortured and killed . The dead body is then thrown into the street. In other cases, innocent civilians are arrested and taken to border areas where they are shot. The Indian government then publicises that these people were militants killed in armed encounters with the troops, No these people are only innocent young and helpless the Help will come very soon Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will not let your suffer for long insha ALLAH. "ALLAH O AKBAR"
Before independence, India had 501 independent states, they were brought together to form a complete Indian nation. Jammu-Kashmir and Goa remained only. Goa was forcibly taken over but J&K remained due stupidity of Nehru.
ReplyDeleteEvery country that was not independent had numerous parts even the USA had and they had to fight to become a complete nation. Kashmiri's only talk of indian occupied area, why not you do so in POK and COK?
Only political stunt is this all about and also from Pakistan support.
Exchange of Population between India and Pakistan ( Plus blangladesh which was East pakistan) can solve this problem.
ReplyDeletePartition of India meant that Muslims and non-Muslims must be separated. Pakistan was created only for the Muslims. Thus, if all Muslims from India would go away to pakistan and Bangladesh, the old state of Jammu & Kashmir can be partitioned according to the demographic pattern that used to exist in 1947( all documents are still there in tact).
States like Bengal, Punjab, Gujarat were partitioned between the Muslims and non-Muslims; there is nothing so special about the Kashmiris.