Syed Abadi Hamdani
The valley is at the brisk of serious human crisis. It could be to the complacent of some sections of the society that as against past, this time Kashmir has attracted international attention. The pellets used by government forces has virtually spread havoc, the injured included from 4 year boy to 70 year old man. The massive criticism, at local and international level has little influenced the government to stop the use of pellets and shot guns against the protesters. As per home minister Rajnath Singh said, that pellet guns would be used in rarest of rare circumstances, on ground their use continues without break with dozens getting injured with pellets everyday.
For all possibilities, the present situation may also counter the same end. The pivotal questions that everybody wants to think and ask, how long can this go? How many more youths have to die before the mayhem stops? Such peeving questions haunt and are not been able to answer, not with the more deaths, and destruction of life but with sanity and respect for human life and just demands.
Things went from bad to worse, when 11 year old boy of seventh class was killed by security forces in Thweed Harwan in Srinagar, as his pellet ridden body was recovered from water reservoir, after he went missing in the evening. The people again resorted to stone pelting incidents in the capital from all places of the city after news of his death reached to other areas.
The situation recently became even more worst when in Uri, 17 Army men were killed, by militants, and tension got raised in dense dust between India and Pakistan. India this time is undergoing the very brunt, one of agitation in the Valley and second attacks on the army forces, is not in a position to handle the situation. The youths are killed and in retaliation militants kill army to show their anger against security forces. That Analysis says the valley may see more dread and alarm, the valley is already set on terrible fuse. To bring back normalcy in one week in Kashmir by Rajnath Singh, has exceeded to second week, with no possibility of normalcy.
Calm is breaking after the death of every youth, that gets killed by the security forces, no respite circle to be found, as death toll has crossed 100, a century of dead persons that got completed in 72 days. Severity of the critical, peril and unrest situation is particularly monitoring the deaths of civilians and wounded. No condolences from the state government to the bereaved of Kashmir and lot of condolences are pouring in from all corners of the India for the 17 Army men who died in militant attack…
Though it is said that Kashmir also experienced this style of resistance and agitation against the land row, in 2008 and 2010, but the trend achieved a popular character in Kashmir since 2008, 2010 intifada. The concern that is to be surfaced, that not only are stone wars becoming a trend in the nooks and corners of the Kashmir but the leading fighters are whom we call the “children of conflict”. The teenagers are showing the highest degree of fervor and they seem eager to give their hot blood for the desired aim, what we call it Azaadi.
The new and unique style of resistance can be termed in James Scott’s terminology as “weapons of the weak”, but it has been seen here from centuries and has become the way to fight oppression. Kashmiri youth are trying to paint themselves in the color of stone wars and other kind of protests. Kashmir is in the highlights of nation and international news, it has turned in to bedrock of conflicts owing to the resistance movement launched against the Indian state. We are integral to Kashmir’s resistance movement. This is what the mentality of youths speak.
They throw stones with vigor, confidence, dedication and force on security forces saying that stones will outcast bullets and make the bullets to surrounded to liberate the Kashmir from the clutches of colonizers.