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‘Modi’s polices, Indian aggression have produced a more resilient, battle-hardened, ready to die Kashmiri’

Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Mohammad Yasin Malik in an article written for The Dawn  has said that Kashmir has been groaning under occupation since the last 71 years, however the last four-and-a-half years have been a real testing time for the Kashmiri nation.

Malik, in the article also says that The Hindu right-wing forces, led by the RSS and the BJP, have constantly worked to bring about an erosion of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir guaranteed by the “hereditary state subject law” enacted by Hari Singh, the erstwhile ruler, in 1927 and to force the people of Kashmir into submission.

“After coming to power in 2014, the BJP started a systematic campaign to push for the removal of the law. It proposed granting of permanent citizenship to Hindu refugees from Pakistan living in parts of Jammu since 1947, setting up of separate townships for Kashmiri Pandits akin to Israeli West Bank settlements, erecting a walled city for ex-Indian soldiers, and so on,” Malik writes.

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The JKLF Chief mentions that for Kashmiri there were only two options-resist or perish.

“Kashmiris chose the former and decided to resist like they have been doing since decades. The BJP government’s iron-fist approach to Kashmiri resistance is leading to the extermination of Kashmiri youth,” Malik adds.

Malik alos points out that the reasons that had pushed his generation to adopt armed resistance in 1988 and the ones behind the new wave of armed resistance were nearly the same.

“I saw that repression was worse now and last year, after my release from jail, I said in a press conference that non-availability of weapons was discouraging thousands from taking up arms and India should thank its neighbours for not exploiting the situation,” he writes.

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Malik adds, “It is a bitter truth of today’s Kashmir. This worries me a lot, but for many this is the only hope and means left by the oppressor. When I hear a mother’s last call to her teenage son, trapped in a firefight with Indian soldiers, asking him to remain steadfast, attain martyrdom and promises to pay any debts the dead son might leave behind, it is heart-breaking.”

Malik believes that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi polices and Indian aggression have produced ‘a more resilient, battle-hardened and ready to die Kashmiri.’

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