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These people who are raising voice against war and human rights violation atm are the same who turn their eyes blind and become mute spectators when it comes to Palestine, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Bosnia, Burma Kashmir and etc.

Some people will stand up and fight for injustices happening to fictional characters but won't show the same passion to stand up for real, actual living people.

Old but thought I would put here

Me and @senderidiumforuncensored our Borderlands OCs

Kash belongs to Sefu (cute bandit boy with hat) Wave belongs to me (Short miget psycho with orange hair)

April 6, 2024

song #58

Kashmir by Led Zeppelin

It was released in 1975 in their album Physical Graffiti

Fun fact: The lyrics were written by Plant in 1973 immediately after Led Zeppelin's 1973 US tour. None of the group members had visited Kashmir. Instead, Plant was inspired during a drive through a desolate desert area of southern Morocco.

April 6, 2024

song #58

Kashmir by Led Zeppelin

It was released in 1975 in their album Physical Graffiti

Fun fact: The lyrics were written by Plant in 1973 immediately after Led Zeppelin's 1973 US tour. None of the group members had visited Kashmir. Instead, Plant was inspired during a drive through a desolate desert area of southern Morocco.

"Florals in Spring, ground breaking...

K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest with a peak elevation of 8,611 m. K2 is part of the Karakoram Range, at the border between Pakistan and...

“What sin have we Kashmiris committed? Kashmir is facing great difficulty. They’ve shut down the landline as well. What will they achieve from this? They’ll silence the sentiments of Kashmiris? How long will they silence us? It’s better to kill us Kashmiris all at once.”

“We live in Srinagar. Yesterday our child was supposed to come back from Delhi. He didn’t come. We’re worried today as well. I haven’t slept all night because there’s a curfew in place. We are very troubled. What sins have we committed? They don’t even let us go out. With great difficulty we got out of our house in the morning and had to go to the police station to take a curfew pass. We were stopped and questioned everywhere. What will they achieve by removing this article? The poor are dying, there isn’t any milk for children, there aren’t any vegetables, there’s nothing. They’ve just declared a curfew. What will this achieve? There are kids studying outside, they can’t phone back home. Everyone is distressed. God do something, do something about this Kashmir.”

the people of kashmir lead a muharram procession in srinagar and expressed solidarity with the people of palestine.

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An antique 1870s Cashmere Shawl that’s also a map of Kashmir.

Inspired by Gaza’s free runners and traceurs, parkour is making inroads in India-administered Kashmir.

Gaza parkour and free runners have inspired many of these local traceurs. These athletes say their performance is also a form of protest against the excesses imposed on the people of Palestine and Kashmir.

thousands in kashmir march to honor the memory of hasan nasrallah followed by his assassination by israel.

pc: quds news network

it took me a trip to Kashmir to realise that i am built for 36 C and not 6 C

but look how beautiful

People & countries mentioned in the thread:

DR Congo - M23, Cobalt

Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview)

Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)

the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews

Hawai'i - IWGIA

Syria - Amnesty International

Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)

Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)

Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report

Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations

Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations

West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch

Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd

Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch

Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR

Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me

Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank

Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International

Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights

Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF

Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News

Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)

Reblogs with Links / From Others

Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia

Libya

Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2

Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)

Rohingya (Myanmar)

More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution

because I am also Indian, I want to also point this out. freedom for colonized people everywhere also means freedom for Kashmiris that are under a brutal Indian occupation. the right to self-determination for all colonized people everywhere, from Palestine to Kashmir to Ireland

a good book to read to learn more about the relationship between Israel and India is “Hostile Homelands” by Azad Essa. India is looking to Israel treatment of Palestinians as a blueprint for its own crimes against Kashmiris, Muslims and Dalits. India is also complicit in furthering Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine - the Port of Haifa is currently partly owned by Adani Ports & SEZ, the founder of which is one of the wealthiest men in India, Gautam Adani (won’t come as a surprise that Adani is also very close to Modi and the BJP)

Kashmr on your header?

Yes.

I visited last December. 🤍

Kashmir during October 🌻

Please tell me u are not saying this seriously. India Never Occupied Kashmir, legal documents were signed when King Hari Singh agreed to join J&K with India (after the partition) . It was Pakistan who occupied parts of J&K illegally (and China aswell). Kashmir was a Hindu land before Islamic invaders converted them and killed those who didn't agreed. Go see what is happening in POK or in your so called "azad" Kashmir. People are literally asking Modi for help there. They are told by Pakistanis that India will prison them and would take away their freedom, on which they say "If this is what freedom looks like then we are happy being prisoned" . And how I'm saying this from surity? Because Pakistanis people have themselves interviewed people of POK. Israel and India had good relations because Israel has helped India so many times in past. India has provided help for Palestine aswell despite knowing that in past India got nothing in return for supporting Palestine (All Arab nations turned their back when Indo Pak war broke down). Go watch Bitta Karate interview on yt. Go watch Pakistani youtubers interviewing people of POK. And go watch the development that has happened in J&K after the abrogation of article 370.

Stop trying to divide my country than it already is, if you really consider urself as Indian. India had lost Pakistan and Bangladesh already. Stop trying to take away J&K and Punjab from us aswell.

because I am also Indian, I want to also point this out. freedom for colonized people everywhere also means freedom for Kashmiris that are under a brutal Indian occupation. the right to self-determination for all colonized people everywhere, from Palestine to Kashmir to Ireland

a good book to read to learn more about the relationship between Israel and India is “Hostile Homelands” by Azad Essa. India is looking to Israel treatment of Palestinians as a blueprint for its own crimes against Kashmiris, Muslims and Dalits. India is also complicit in furthering Israeli settler colonialism in Palestine - the Port of Haifa is currently partly owned by Adani Ports & SEZ, the founder of which is one of the wealthiest men in India, Gautam Adani (won’t come as a surprise that Adani is also very close to Modi and the BJP)

Our Moon Has Blood Clots -

Exodus Remembrance Day :

Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Pandits: the Hindu minority group in Kashmir.

January 19, 1990

It was a very cold day despite the sun’s weak attempts to emerge from behind dark clouds. In the afternoon, I played cricket with some boys from my neighbourhood. All of us wore thick sweaters and pherans. I would always remove my pheran and place it on the fence in the kitchen garden. After playing, I would wear it before entering the house to escape my mother’s wrath. She worried that I would catch cold. ‘The neighbours will think that I am incapable of taking care of my children,’ she would say in exasperation. We had an early dinner that evening and, since there was no electricity, we couldn’t watch television. Father heard the evening news bulletin on the radio as usual, and just as we were going to sleep, the electricity returned.

I am in a deep slumber. I can hear strange noises. Fear grips me. All is not well. Everything is going to change. I see shadows of men slithering along our compound wall. And then they jump inside. One by one. So many of them. I woke up startled. But the zero-watt bulb was not on. The hundred-watt bulb was. Father was waking me up. ‘Something is happening,’ he said. I could hear it—there were people out on the streets. They were talking loudly. Some major activity was underfoot. Were they setting our locality on fire? So, it wasn’t entirely a dream, after all? Will they jump inside now? Then a whistling sound could be heard. It was the sound of the mosque’s loudspeaker. We heard it every day in the wee hours of the morning just before the muezzin broke into the azaan. But normally the whistle was short-lived; that night, it refused to stop. That night, the muezzin didn’t call.

That night, it felt like something sinister was going to happen. The noise outside our house had died down. But in the mosque, we could hear people’s voices. They were arguing about something. My uncle’s family came to our side of the house. ‘What is happening?’ Uncle asked. ‘Something is happening,’ Father said. ‘They are up to something.’

It was then that a long drawl tore through the murmurs, and with the same force the loudspeaker began to hiss. ‘Naara-e-taqbeer, Allah ho Akbar!’ I looked at my father; his face was contorted. He knew only too well what the phrase meant. I had heard it as well, in a stirring drama telecast a few years ago on Doordarshan, an adaptation of Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas, a novel based on the events of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. It was the cry that a mob of Muslim rioters shouted as it descended upon Hindu settlements. It was a war cry. Within a few minutes, battle cries flew at us from every direction. They rushed towards us like poison darts.

Hum kya chaaaahte: Azadiiii!

Eiy zalimon, eiy kafiron, Kashmir humara chhod do.

What do we want—Freedom!

O tyrants, O infidels, leave our Kashmir.

Then the slogans ceased for a while. From another mosque came the sound of recorded songs eulogizing the Mujahideen resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The whole audio cassette played through, and then the slogans returned. We were still wondering what would happen next when a slogan we heard left us in no doubt. I remember Ma began to tremble like a leaf when we heard it. ‘Assi gacchi panu’nuy Pakistan, batav rostuy, batenein saan.’ The crowd wanted to turn Kashmir into Pakistan, without the Pandit men, but with their women.

They’ll come and finish us. It is just a matter of minutes now, we think. Ma rushed to the kitchen and returned with a long knife. It was her father’s. ‘If they come, I will kill her,’ she looked at my sister. ‘And then I will kill myself. And you see what you two need to do.’

Father looked at her in disbelief. But he didn’t utter a word. We are very scared. We do not know what to do. Where would we run away to? Would Ma have to kill herself? What about my sister?

My life flashed in front of me, like a silent film.

I remembered my childhood with my sister. How I played with her and how she always liked to play ‘teacher-teacher’, making me learn the spellings of ‘difficult’ words.

B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L

T-O-R-T-O-I-S-E

F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y

C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S

P-O-R-C-U-P-I-N-E

I remembered the red ribbon she wore; I remembered how she waited behind the closed gates of her school to catch a glimpse of father’s shoes from beneath; I remembered how she threw a duster at one of her friends who tried to bully me; I remembered how I left her alone in the middle of a game of hopscotch because I saw Ravi’s mother entering the house with a parrot in a cage. Would Mother stab her? And herself? What would we do? ‘The BSF will do something,’ Uncle said. But nobody does anything. The slogan-mongering continued all night. We could see searchlights from somewhere making an arc over and over again. Was the BSF keeping a watch? Why were they not stopping this madness?

The slogans did not stop till the early hours of the morning. We remained awake the whole night. As the first rays of the sun broke, I dozed off for a while and when I woke up everyone was still there. Ma was still holding on to the knife.

The crowd took a break in the morning. I don’t think we had ever been as happy as we were when dawn broke that day. It gave us an elemental sense of hope, of security. It was later that we realized that it was not only in our locality that this had happened. These incidents had occured all over the Kashmir Valley at around the same time. It was well orchestrated. It was meant to frighten us into exile. Three hundred kilometres away, in a former palace, a man spent that night feeling absolutely helpless. Jagmohan had been sent by New Delhi to take charge as the governor of Jammu and Kashmir.

On the afternoon of January 19, he had boarded a BSF plane that had brought him to Jammu. While being driven to the Raj Bhavan, he saw people lining up on both sides of the road to greet him. Jagmohan was a very popular administrator and, during a previous stint in 1986 as the governor of the state, he had won the hearts of the people by undertaking large-scale reforms. That night in Jammu’s Raj Bhavan, the phone began to ring from 10 p.m. onwards. ‘They are coming to kill us,’ a scared Pandit from somewhere in the Valley whispered to him. ‘Please ask the army to help us,’ begged another. But that night, Jagmohan was not in a position to help them at all.

The administration, he knew, had collapsed completely. Some sections of the police were sympathetic to militant groups. No one was in charge. And as usual, in New Delhi, the babus in the government had no idea what was happening. On Doordarshan, as Jagmohan would recount in his memoirs later, a special programme on the ‘ethnic revolt’ in Azerbaijan was being telecast. Only a week earlier, in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, a massive crowd demanding independence from Soviet Russia had attacked the Christian Armenian community, killing hundreds in a bloodied frenzy, and looting their homes and business establishments. And oblivious to New Delhi, a similar episode was about to occur in Kashmir.

Only the gods could save the Pandits now

- Excerpted from 'Our Moon has Blood Clots', a memoir of the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits, written by senior journalist Rahul Pandita.

Today is the darkest day in the history of Kashmir -

January 19, 2024 marks the beginning of the 34th year of exile of the Kashmiri Pandits. 19 Januaryis observed as Exodus day by Kashmiri Hindus.

Who are the Kashmiri Hindus??

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A little History on Kashmir -

Kashmir acceding to India -

The Multiple Exoduses -

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en.m.wikipedia.org

Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus - Wikipedia

Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus - Wikipedia

Today Kashmiri Hindus still live like refugees in their own country. Their homes and properties remain vacant or occupied.

The valley awaits them.

And we remember their loss and their suffering.

Always and forever.

Settler colonialism and denial of the hindu history of Kashmir.

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