Thursday, April 04, 2013

Anger erupts again in Kashmir...

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Solving Kashmir dispute is not difficult as it has been made out to be. The people of the valley have been demanding the right to self-determination, and this has been denied to them since 1947. There will be no peace in Kashmir and South Asia if the issue will not be resolved in accordance with the demands of the people of the region.

Three basic steps could be taken to move closer to winning self-determination for Jammu and Kashmir: India must all its draconian laws like AFSPA; release the political prisoners and form a team, involving local activists and lawyers, to investigate human rights violations; and withdraw its army and paramilitary forces from the state so that it is no longer the world's most militarized zone.

It is time for India to look at Kashmir with a desire to solve the conflict, and not merely to buy time for its "peace process" that is really designed to strengthen India's rule.

"People are trapped in history," the African American novelist James Baldwin wrote, "and history is trapped in them." This is true in Kashmir, where the history which lives in the people as memories can build their consciousness to protest and struggle. Full story...

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