ABDULLAH MUSTAFVI
World was shocked to listen the ‘Theory of Rape’ divulged by none other than a general officer of Indian army. He simply believed in raping the women of opponents which to him remains a straight act of reciprocity with no fault on rapist. Indian army has been practically applying the rape theory of former Maj General S P Sinha in Occupied Kashmir since long with utmost cruelty and insensitivity. Initially incidents of gang rape of Kashmiri women surfaced and now Maj General S P Sinha has been found publically advocating the legitimacy of mass rape of Kashmiri women by the soldiers of a regular standing army of India which claims to be the largest democracy of the world. Who doesn’t know about gang rape and brutal murder of an innocent minor girl by wolves of Hindutva Brigade in Kathuwa few months back? Shockingly, extremist Hindu elite and pressure groups of civil society protested in favor of the rapists.
Advocacy of mass rape by Maj General Sinha is in fact an indirect confession and a direct threat to Kashmiri masses about coming future consequences. Over a period of past two years, reports released by UN about serious human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir were neither a new revelation nor a biased document rather these exposed the brutal side of India to the civilized world . These eye opening reports, encompassing inhuman atrocities committed by Indian security forces , further confirmed the complains made by oppressed Kashmir masses to the largely deaf and dumb international community. On 6th July 2019, New York Times published a detailed story authored by Sameer Yasir and Kai Schultz titled “ Kashmiris Call for Investigation of Torture Accusations Against India”. While referring UN’ latest report about inhuman violence, NYT story made shocking disclosures about torture cells after interviewing dozens of victims.
Kashmiri human rights activists and political workers have formed various forums to compile the facts about torture and HR violation victims. New York Times’ story provides a summarized but conclusive account of Indian brutalities . A similar story authored by Riffat Farid titled “ UN Reoprt on Kashmir Calls for Probe into Human Rights Violations” was published by Aljazeera on 8th July 2019. International media echoes with the call of Kashmiris for a detailed probe on decades long human rights violations committed by Indian state institutions. Nature of Indian crimes against Kashmiris is extra ordinarily heinous and inhuman. It will be fair to say that India as a state , after release of UN report about Kashmir , now stands in the world community as the biggest human rights violator and abuser .
A legitimate demand of Kashmiri masses for free and fair plebiscite persistently receives violent response from New Dehli. There are countless stories spread in Kashmir about extra judicial murders, illegal detentions in torture cells, lifelong disabilities caused by lethal weapons like pellet guns, gang rapes and unimaginable humiliations . Kashmiris have no place for India in their hearts and minds. New generation has inherited spirit of freedom from elders and got fuel for the fire of armed resistance by observing inhuman treatment and violence of Indian security forces. New York Times story describes shocking accounts of torture victims who earned lifelong disabilities as a reward of being innocent. How effectively Indian policy of violence and torture can convert a simple villager against the state may be rightly assessed from the cases reported in New York Times story.
One of torture victim Nazir Ahmed Shaikh was arrested by Indian security forces without fulfilling any legal formality and during process of so called interrogation his two legs were removed from body by crushing under a road roller. How it can be justified? How the civilized world can forgo such brutalities? Neither it is an exceptional incidence nor an exaggerated twisted narration of the actual event. Every street in Kashmir has numerous such like revelations and disclosures. These blood soaked stories took place on ground and gave birth to a new generation of freedom fighters in Kashmir. Burhan Wani can be termed as a symbolic icon of this new breed of freedom fighters. Freedom fighters are not ready to kneel before Indian state which has nothing to offer them except torture, rapes, genocide and humiliation. Kashmir is no more a territorial dispute or a political issue between India and Pakistan; rather it is a human tragedy turning worst with every passing day due to inhuman prejudiced approach of New Dehli. Old puppets of India like Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have also started criticizing India’s venomous policies after house arrests amid revocation of Article 370 . Latest demand for a dialogue by Farooq Abdullah came up with a reasonable logic that if dialogues may take place for Afghanistan amid extra ordinary violence than why the dialogues can not be arranged to resolve the Kashmir issue? While maintaining a positive stance about any purposeful dialogue with India to peacefully resolve the Kashmir issue , Pakistan should vigorously move on diplomatic front to expose the state sponsored atrocities in IOK by laying special focus on theory of rape divulged by Indian General in a TV show . The world must be made clear on this point that how a state like India committed to ‘Theory of Mass Rape’ can be trusted as the largest secular democracy with such dark black spots of human rights violations on forehead.
