Terror Strikes

Terror strikes in India: 11/7, 26/11, 13/7, 7/9:

Terror strikes snuffing out dozens of innocent lives are meant to provoke anger, trigger outrage.

However some reports never make any headlines and never invoke any feelings of angst, WHY?

Unmarked Graves:

According to a recent report by the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission, 2,156 bodies were found buried in several unmarked graves in dozens of villages in Kashmir.
 "According to some human rights group, around 10,000 people have gone missing in the past 20 years, out of which many may have ended up in these graves,".

Force-feeding India
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‘Why don’t you cover Irom Sharmila’s decade-old fast with the same intensity as you did Anna Hazare’s 12-day fast?’ asked Binalakshmi Nepram, the founder of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network with characteristic passion. On stage in a live programme. “Perhaps, it’s because Ramlila Maidan is closer to television studios than Imphal,” was my
(Rajdeep Sardesai,editor-in-chief, IBN 18.) feeble response. The ‘tyranny of distance’ can only be a part-explanation for why a 39-year-old Manipuri woman’s fast that began in November 2000 or  a nude street protest by Manipuri women for the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has not resonated across TV channels and the nation.

    In IRAQ
In the elusive search for WMD (weapons of mass destruction), On March 19, 2003, American president George W Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq
In eight years there are over 1 lakh documented civilian casualties — people who died as direct consequence of the violence (Some experts claim it might be over half million)
The war has displaced 3.5 million Iraqis (1 in 10 Iraqis)
In 2005 the search for WMD was officially ended but the war continues. 

The war has increased the slum population in Iraq from 17 to 53%. (A quarter of Iraqi children are malnourished, 70% Iraqis lack access to clean water and 80% lack sanitation)

In  AFGHANISTAN
US invasion began in Oct 2001 after Taliban’s refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden.

 Over 9,000 Afghan and Pakistani securitymen have lost their lives.

About 12,000 to 14,000 Afghan civilians have been killed so far (More than the number of people who died during the Taliban era)
Today there are 1.8 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan, over a million in Iran and about 4.5 million are internally displaced .  

Today, one third of Afghan earn less than a dollar a day, nearly half have no access to drinking water and sanitation

In PAKISTAN:

With over 35,000 fatalities the Pakistani death toll is far higher than Afghanistan about 2,000 people have been killed by drone attacks The fighting at Afghan border has also led to displacement of three million Pakistanis.

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Whether lines drawn on ones palm, by God, determines ones destiny, I am not sure! But the Lines drawn by man on this planet definitely determine ones destiny.

I thank god that I was not born in Somalia for the only profession that I could practice would have been that of a malnourished refuge or a Pirate.

Thanks lord that I am not from Kashmir, the heaven on earth, for I could only learn to be a shepherd, a shikarawala , or be a Terrorist. 

As long as your destiny is determined by your Geography and as long as we have continuing Human rights violations by the army and abuse of Power by the State, whether in India or around the world, Terrorism will continue.

Harsh penal action against the culprit will kill the Terrorist but will not end Terrorism.

Looking from a different perspective, whom we call a Terrorist may be considered a Martyr in Kashmir or in Iraq or in Somalia.

“An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind.”----Mahatma Gandhi