Abrogation of Article 370 is a restoration of human rights,’ says noted columnist Sunanda Vashisht. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnrq0sc5HNI Npv 14 2-19
Mojo story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYjER9oauaY on January 19, 1990, "We were asked to flee, convert or die": Sunanda Vashisht at US Congressional hearing on Kashmir end her speaking of LGBTQ rights..
CONTROVERSIAL GOVERNOR OF KASHMIR RESIGNS By Steve Coll May 26, 1990- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/05/26/controversial-governor-of-kashmir-resigns/a4574b4a-e0b8-4487-b7e5-838cef75d574/ follows a bloody incident earlier this week in which Indian army troops fired on the funeral procession of a slain Kashmiri religious leader and killed at least 45 civillians. Backed by about 15,000 Indian troops, Jagmohan had sought to quell the Kashmir uprising by imposing a form of unofficial martial law on the valley...But excesses by the security forces -- including beatings of suspects and firing on civilians -- during his program of extended curfews, house-to-house searches and widespread detentions of suspected militants appear to have increased support for radical separatists.
But excesses by the security forces -- including beatings of suspects and firing on civilians -- during his program of extended curfews, house-to-house searches and widespread detentions of suspected militants appear to have increased support for radical separatists.
S Sen:
I. What aboutery. A standard trick. II. One set of atrocities cannot justify another. III. Sometime back, had done a rather longish piece on Kashmir for an anthology (ref.: <https://groups.google.com/g/greenyouth/c/g3FduJpmFBc/m/oS4AvInOAQAJ> b/up https://1drv.ms/u/s!AiXYIRE1zsiajlDE3nk0TLHPnkb2).
In course of doing that, came to the realisation that a (or maybe "the") reason that the mass exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits, under Jagmohan at the steering, went virtually unnoticed - when it was underway, is the huge bloody mayhem that Jagmohan would inflict upon the Valley, immediately on taking over the reins.
In the consequent huge din and outburst of outrage, the ongoing tragic stories of the Pandits simply got drowned out.
They started getting registered our consciousness only after the din had well died out.
(Jagmohan would - quite deservingly, be given the order of the boot.
Arun Shourie, on his second(?) stint as the IE editor, had captioned his laments and tirade: An Honest Priest Defrocked.
Or something thereabout.)
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