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Civil society India's 'fire-fighters' in
Kashmir: Yasin Malik
Tuesday April 16, 2013 08:01:13 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik
Tuesday charged the Indian civil society with acting as "fire
fighters" for the government while accusing the international
community of criminal silence on rights abuses here.
Addressing his first press conference after the authorities lifted
the house arrest restrictions imposed after parliament attack
convict Afzal Guru's hanging Feb 11, Malik said: "Whenever there
is trouble in Kashmir, the Indian civil society representatives
come here and issue statements against the government.
"They act as fire fighters for the state and once the situation
stabilizes, these civil society representatives disappear."
Malik also accused the international community of criminal silence
over what he alleged were suppressive and coercive steps of the
Indian state to gag the voices of Kashmiri freedom lovers.
He noted that a sense of surrender and despondency had overtaken
the JKLF after it decided to shun violence and start a non-violent
democratic resistance movement, but hastened to add that the
decision to abjure violence is a permanent one.
Malik also said the news reports of Taliban fighters entering
Kashmir after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan were overstated.
"Ours is an indigenous movement and we do not need anybody's help
to continue our peaceful struggle," he said.
Malik warned the Indian government that violence could again raise
its head if non-violent democratic resistance was crushed with
brute force by the Indian state.
"The question is whether or not India wants another generation of
militant Kashmiri youth" he asked.
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