INDIA MUST WITHDRAW ITS
OCCUPATIONAL TROOPS UNCONDITIONALLY: HABIB YOUSAFZAI KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE
ASSALAM-O-ALAIKUM!
PRESS RELEASE JANUARY 27,
2013
Both the Kashmiri and
Sikh Diasporas carried out a protest on January 27, 2013, outside
Pearson Convention Center Brampton, Canada to send a strong message to the
India's Consulate General who was present. Inside, the Consulate General of
India, along with the Indian community, were celebrating India’s 64th Republic
day.
While they were
celebrating, the Indian community forgot that the constitution was
rejected by the Sikh Parliamentarians in Indian parliament because the Sikh Homeland
Punjab (Khalistan) was merged into the Indian union forcefully, without any
vote for the right to self-determination or referendum. Besides, when the draft
was developed, Sikhs were deprived of their identity and were homogenized as
long haired Hindus. More than six decades after this event, 270,000 Sikhs have
been mercilessly killed and their religious centers including The Darbar Sahib
Complex, Amritsar, also mistakenly known Golden Temple Complex, was desecrated
and destroyed in an 'undeclared' war on the Sikh Nation. This took place in the
form of the brutal military "Operation Bluestar" of June 1984. The
Indian government has ignored the reality that Punjab had been the sovereign
territory of the Sikhs for centuries (1799 to 14th March, 1849) and, the Sikhs
have been "Struggling to regain their lost sovereignty since 14th March,
1849, under the guidance of the teachings of their Respected Guru Sahebaans,
inscribed in the Blissful Guru Granth Sahib. The Brahmins-Hindus' masters of
Indian Congress have wiped off the map the sovereign Sikh Homeland Punjab
(Khalistan) as well as Sikh Nation, the First Sovereign and Secular nation of
the South Asian region.
Similarly, India
occupied Manwadar, Junagarah, Hyderabad, and on October 27, 1947, forty
two thousand square miles of the state of Jammu and Kashmir while enslaving its
people. Kashmir is a state predominantly inhabited by Muslims. Pundit
Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India took the matter to the
United Nations which passed a resolution that the fate of the state of Jammu
and Kashmir should be decided by plebiscite. To this day the Indian government is using
false pretenses in order to avoid plebiscite which would have the
destiny of the state decided by the democratic wishes of its citizens. In over six decades, the Indian
government has killed over 200,000 citizens in the state and there is not one
day that goes by in which the Indian government forgoes all its means in order
to suppress the populace from their right of self determination and ultimate
freedom.
The Indian government which is an illegal
occupier is strategically trying to dictate the terms of settlement of this
issue. It is arguing that for a plebiscite to take place that Pakistan should
withdraw its forces from Azad Kashmir despite the fact that the entire state
was to accede to Pakistan and is legally the territory of Pakistan. Thus, we
can see how India as an occupier is attempting ignore the fact that it is the
occupier and diverting the onus to the Pakistani state. This argument is
extremely flawed as the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir and its citizens are
Pakistani territory and citizens respectively. India is vehemently arguing this
stance as a means to complicate the simple issue of plebiscite that must take
place. Its stand exposes the mass hypocrisy and democratic deficit in the
Indian state. To put into context, this argument is
synonymous with Pakistan invading half of Delhi and six decades later
propagating to the international community that India should withdraw from the
other half in order to administer a plebiscite on the ground. In
reality, the Indian state should have sanctions placed on it for behaving as a
rogue state in the international system and should compensate the citizens of
Jammu and Kashmir and the Pakistan state for the massive material and human
rights costs that it has caused.
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