The Indian government's worst nightmare has come true. Having declared that the militant movement has been crushed, it is now faced with a non-violent mass protest, but not the kind it knows how to manage.
This one is nourished by people's memory of years of repression in which tens of thousands have been killed, thousands have been 'disappeared', hundreds of thousands tortured, injured, raped and humiliated. . . .
At the heart of it all is a moral question. Does any government have the right to take away people's liberty with military force?
India needs azadi [freedom] from Kashmir just as much - if not more - than Kashmir needs azadi from India.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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