Oppression In Kashmir Quotes

The collective heartbeat of the oppressed will always be louder than any missile strike, gunshot or bomb.

India all too easily forgets its own history under British rule, and the declaration of its freedom fighters that the oppressor does not have the privilege of judging when a people are 'deserving' of freedom.

It's our Blood, it's our Pen. It's their Oppression, it's their Den. Yes, we Raise,Yes we Die. Too we Flow,Too we Fly. It's their Reign,its their Rule. It's their Rome,it's their Law. It's our Faith, it's their Flaw. We'll Stand, we'll Free. Yes,We resist,We Kashmiri_ Indian occupied Kashmir.

But then you can't hope for much justice in the subcontinent, where fulfillment comes to very few among the needy and restless millions, and where aspiration itself can feel like a luxury. In Kashmir, isolated and oppressed and then dragged into the larger world of competing men and nations and murderous ideologies, more people have been confronted with this awareness in the last ten years than in all of its tormented modern history.

But the unique position of Kashmir was not limited to the terms of its Constitution. Kashmir had become the bivouac of a vast assembly of Indian Military and Air Force personnel, who have now for nearly twenty years constantly and at most street corners stood guard against possible second thoughts by the legislatures and the Government of Kashmir on the integration of the State with the Indian Union. Democracy in Kashmir is thus underlined at all times in form and substance by the arms of the Indian army.

Until all of us are free, none of us are free.

A brief look back in history makes it evident that Jammu and Kashmir’s oppression and colonial exploitation started long before the formation of modern India. Ever since its annexation by the Mughal empire in 1589 AD, Kashmir has never been ruled by Jammu and Kashmir themselves. After the Mughals, the region was ruled by the Afghans (1753-1819), Sikhs (1819-46), and the Dogras (1846-1947) until the Indian and Pakistani states took over.

Acts of terror committed by a government is still terrorism.