Volume 1, No. 8, October 2000

 

Why is the Government Silent on Chittisinghpora ?

One doesn’t know the real hand behind the mysterious bomb blasts throughout the country — specifically those that occur in localities of the poor. One also cannot get proof to prove the hand behind numerous mysterious massacres. But what one does know is that the intelligence agencies and the criminal outfits like the Iekwans, greyhounds, Bajrang Dals etc., are actively involved in sowing discord amongst communities, tribes, regions etc., to dissipate movements against the government’s bankrupt rule and drown them in their own blood, through internecine strife.

But the events of Chittisingpora which was whipped up into a national event by, not only the rulers, but also Clinton; is now proved beyond doubt to be the handiwork of government intelligence. Even the DNA reports of the so-called militants killed by the army, as those responsible for the massacre, are not being presented.

Surprisingly, inspite of evidence to the contrary, (see earlier issues) the media carries on its mantra of blaming militants for the carnage. In Chittisinghpora itself one of the Sikh widows asks "Why did the security forces pick up innocent people and kill them as militants ?" Relatives of the victim say that Mohammed Wagha who was picked up the next day, denies involvement in the killings. They add, "every militant or sympathiser when caught, they parade him before the media .... why did they black-out on Wagha ?"

Besides, two reports, have shown the hand of the Iekwans, which have a large presence in the adjoining areas. Both the reports, of an investigation led by Justice (retd.) A.B. Baines, and that by the IHRO (International Human Rights Organisation) blame the Iekwans for the massacre. In fact the former Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Justice Mufti Farooqi, who was part of the IHRO investigations, said "the motive behind the mass killings of Sikhs .... and the circumstantial evidence available with us go to show that the real culprits may not be the freedom fighters, but the renegades and their masters who cover and cordon them." Yet, for the public at large, the culprits are still the Kashmiri militants; as, in Goebellian style, a lie repeated hundreds of times, is seen as the truth. Suddenly, after six months, the government is trying to produce new evidence by getting two muslims to take the blame. What then about the earlier ‘culprits’ whom they killed ? One wonders who is responsible for many of the other massacres taking place in the country !!

 

 

 

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