101 Reasons Indian Security Forces Make Our Lives Miserable In Kashmir

BY; LONESOME KASHMIRI

1. By Having Their Guns pointed at us all the time.
2. By looking at us with suspicion all the time.
3. By Making us Show our Identification every 100 meters.
4. By Occupying our Orchards, Schools and Houses.
5. By shooting at us and taking sick pleasure from it.
6. By beating us while we play cricket in the field.
7. By making us sit in cold, hot weather and rain when they search our villages and towns.
8. By burning our property. In One instance they burnt down the entire Iqbal Market of Sopore.
9. By looting our valuables.
10. By Killing young innocent young people.
11. By consistently reminding us of their presence with their whistles and bamboo sticks.
12. By making us wait on the road for hours while their convoys are passing through.
13. By taking our vehicles whenever they want and sometimes keeping it with them for as long as they like.
14. By torturing us without any reason.
15. By arresting us without any warrant, proof or valid reason.
16. By forcibly taking our apples and other crops and not paying for it.
17. By ruining our forests and natural resources.
18. By having our deposit my identity card at the camp when I visit my sister’s place.
19. By having our walk almost a mile to the main gates of the army camp when we enter our own villages.
20. By having us record our names, addresses and telephone numbers even when I go inside my village.
21. By having to answer the army what I am doing in my own house.
22. By not being able to walk alone when I leave my house and have to go through a road where there is an army camp.
23. By making us run errands for them as if we are their servants.
24. By desecrating our religious places.
25. By entering our homes and showing no regard for our privacy.
26. By extorting money from us on various false allegations.
27. By making our young boys addicted to drugs and alcohol.
28. By embarrassing our elders and showing them no respect.
29. By Making us do forced labor for years and years.
30. By staging fake encounters.
31. By commiting custodial killings.
32. By wreaking havoc after grenade attack or firing incidents.
33. By haunting the steps of our sisters in Kashmir.
34. By blaming us for imaginary crimes.
35. By cordoning off the entire villages and not even allowing people to have a sip of water.
36. By forcing us to hoist Indian flags when we do not want to.
37. By forcing us to vote in elections when we do not want to.
38. By supporting anti-social activities and anti-social people.
39. By Making us go through an identification parade at every army camp we pass on our way.
40. By summoning the parents and relatives of Militants to army camps as if they were some petty criminals.
41. By occupying every bridge and bank of rivers.
42. By resorting to psychological torture when physical torture does not seem enough for them.
43. By not allowing us to particpate in our religious duties.
44. By having us use only lanterns and not torches or electric lamps when go out in the night.
45. By Not allowing us to pray in the Mosques.
46. By not allowing us to voice our protests.
47. By not listening to us and instead torture us some more.
48. By having to explain to the army why am I walking, running, Sleeping, Eating or even breathing.
49. By forcing us to carry multiple identifications all the time. And then not honoring them.
50. By making our take longer routes so I can avoid the army bunkers.
51. By having those hated military bunkers in every nook and corner of the valley.
52. By acting superior to us even though most of them are illiterate.
53. By constructing third rate Bus stands and sub-standard schools which endanger everybody.
54. By making Highways “One ways”.
55. By not allowing us to celebrate our religious festivals.
56. By not failing to summon the groom on the day of his wedding.
57. By making our hit my friends at gunpoint.
58. By taking everything from our including my pride.
59. By polluting our fresh water bodies.
60. By chopping down pine trees to make furniture for their homes.
61. By colluding with Government agents and destroying the cultural fabric of Kashmir.
62. By making us mentally sick with their presence.
63. By diluting our faith by bringing sins of alcohol, cinema etc. with them.
64. By making our places of worship inaccessible to us.
65. By using us as their shields in encounters.
66. By haunting the steps of our sisters.
67. By having us clean the blood of our brothers from the road.
68. By erecting Hindu temples in our localities.
69. By establishing circles and circles of barricades around your camps and making even our walking difficult.
70. By showing arrogance when offered water and they throwing the utensils to ground.
71. By talking obscenely to our elders and ladies.
72. By showing no regard to our sentiments and feelings regarding our history and religion.
73. By kidnapping people as if they do not matter.
74. By acting as police, Lawyers and Judges all by themselves.
75. By making us feel insignificant and unimportant.
76. By making our take permission from them for a wedding party even though it is my village, my home.
77. By Imposing restrictions on my movement any time they want.
78. By Making my mother and sisters cry every time they abduct our to their army camp.
79. By torturing relatives if there is a militant in the family. Does not matter even if that militant is not a close relative.
80. By refusing our passport again and again and again by giving negative verification reports.
81. By humiliating children in front of their parents and humiliating parents in front of their children.
82. By committing heinous crimes and then blaming them on us.
83. By frisking our every time I go into a government office.
84. By having to go through endless security checks at the airport.
85. By making our small children frightened by their hateful stares and abuses.
86. By hitting our young small children with rifle butts.
87. By making our hospitals places for them to practice.
88. By not allowing ambulances which carry critical patients.
89. By not allowing us to bury our dead with respect and honor.
90. By suffocating us with their alcoholic habits.
91. By making our young boys shameless and characterless.
92. By using 100′s of mortars to defeat one single militant and in the process destroying dozens of homes.
93. By coming in the dead of the night and harassing our religious figures.
94. By beating our Imams and Muezzins.
95. By showing no remorse when they desecrate the Quran ul Kareem.
96. By forcing us to shout “Jai Hind” when I don’t want to.
97. By forcibly making our say ‘Hey Ram” and Hindu Shloks when I hate to say it.
98. By asking our questions for which I have no answers.
99. By trying to sabotage any peace initiative in Villages.
100. By Making us lose our sanity with constant crackdowns and actions.
101. By simply being there all the time.