From: razdan@ntd.comsat.com (Rajender Razdan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: RE:Massacre in Kashmir
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:42:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: v122npej@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu's message of 11 Jan 93 16:11:00 GMT

In article <C0p68v.M7L@acsu.buffalo.edu> v122npej@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Sareer A Fazili) writes:

   tells me that if these were "mistakenly" reported as true, then a retraction
   would have been printed with an aside claiming that new evidence argued
   against what was originally reported. Kashmiris in the US are extremely well
   informed, and the news that we get from IOK is very accurate. Unless one can
   prove that a news report was false, or that evidence was presented to it's
   contrary, I would hope that grandstanding such as this would not take place.

   In conclusion, the FACTS are that GOI is supporting a military presence of over
   400,000 soldiers.Don't believe it? I am sure all interested parties can peruse
   through early editions of the NYT from Jan., Feb.,and March of 1990 to get the
   exact number. Your local Congressman can get the info for you too.
   And the press is not allowed in Kashmir. Ed Gargan's article was allowed under
   his guise as a tourist! Disbelievers are again welcome to question the US State
   Dept., their local Congressman, or even call the AP/UPI and ask who their
   Kashmir correspondent is. They are allowed to maintain only a New Delhi
   correspondent these days. It is all in black and white. I have no need to offer
   more proofs than what I have stated repeatedly in the past. India is showing
   her face to the world, and the world is starting to see it. If not the US, then
   UK will be the first to aid Kashmiris in their struggle to freedom.


   Sareer A. Fazili
   I am dumbfounded as to the fear that he has of Muslims and
   Islam.Zealotry shows it's face in all other religions, or has he already
   forgotten the Ayodha mosque incident? 
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    The letter by Mr. Fazili represents the typical propaganda churned out
so regularly by Pakistanis and Kashmiri muslims in the U.S. Mr. Fazili
uses the articles in NY Times to prove his point about the Kashmiri
population being harassed by the GOI forces. To the likes of the Fazili's
in this world, let me paraphrase George Bush's words " Do not beleive
everything that you read in newspapers". Is is not amazing that all the
articles in NY Times have shown such silence towards the plight of the
Kashmiri Hindu population who have been systematically driven out of
their homelands by the gun-toting terrorists to which NY Times is acting
as a mouthpiece. We, the Kashmiri Hindus have sent numerous requests to
Mr Gargan and others in NY Times to describe our side of the story. Till
now not a single letter of ours has been published. If this does not smack
of biased reporting I don't know what else does?
    Another interesting incident will shed some more light to the way the
press here operates. You may recall a previous writer in NY Times by the
name of Barbara Crosset, whose articles on India have been consistently
acidic. This lady, BC, gave a lecture in Washington DC (winter 1991)
about "Kashmiri Independance Struggle". She claimed in her talk that the
Kashmiri Hindus left Kashmir because the BJP asked them to do so. I guess
she hadn't expected any Kashmiri Hindus to be present at her talks as she
was visibly embarassed as one by one each one of us (Kashmiri Hindus) got
up and recounted personal descriptions of how we and our families were
forced to flee Kashmir due to unveiled threats on our lives. We asked her
to give any proof that even a single Hindu had fled at the call of the BJP.
She, of course, quickly backtrackked everything she said and told us this
was what she had been informed. On further questioning, it turned out that
the Kashmiri militants had given her a very welcome treatment, shown her
all the select localities and select people who could make up some excellent
stories. The kind treatment by these militants and the later royal treat-
ment by the Pakistani government had won her completely over and she was
a willing and able mouthpiece to all the lies & half-truths from the
militant camps.
     Unfortunately, our Indian PR campaign is light-years away from the
systematic propaganda machine of Pakistan and its muslim allies. Our
(Indian) free press has also shown little balance in its reporting. They
have, in their effort at "fair" reporting, tended to sensationalize any
small indiscretion on the part of the Indian army and paid but lip
service to the systematic brutalizqation of the Kashmiri masses in general,
and the Kashmiri Hindus in particular by the gun-tototing militants. It
is no wonder that the world news reflects these very same stories.
    As for Mr. Fazili's "dumbfoundedness" about the Indian fear of muslim
rule; try selling your argument to your own fellow Hindu bretheren whom
you have so shamelessly and brutally driven out. Let there be no illusion
about Kashmir. The Kashmiri fight for freedom has been instigated by
Pakistani and Afghani mujaheddin and supported by petro-dollars (to
which Mr. Fazili no doubt contributes very substantially). The bran of Islam
that these gun-toting terrorists have brought to Kashmir is one of
total intolerance not only to other religions but also to the saner
voices in their own religion. These terrorists have murdered, in the
most brutal fashion, more than 1,000 Kashmiri pandits and peace loving
muslims; thereby silencing any dissenting voice. We have documented
proofs of these (photographs, living testimony from close of kin etc),
for anyone to see.
    So to Mr. Fazili and his ilk let me just say one final thing. "You
can fool some people all the time, you can fool all the people some of
times, but you cannot fool all people all the time". Truth will
eventually prevail.
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