Rameez Makhdoomi
The situation in Kashmir is getting explosive with every killing. As every tear gas or shell or bullet blows the fertile brain of Kashmiri youth, the agony and pain of masses is growing. Within a time span of just one month, five youth have been killed by security forces in Kashmir.
After the hanging of Afzal Guru Kashmir is once again turning into a virtual graveyard for humanity with major brunt being borne by the common Kashmiris. Many rational voices are of opinion that prevailing scenario and past experience of two decades suggests that a slow genocide is being carried against Kashmiris. While a accurate definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group .”
Ground realities suggest that currently situation in Kashmir is once again going out of control with every passing day and new annals of cruelty inflicted on the nation of Kashmir are penned down in literary sources
Human Rights Defenders and voices of conscience have made it clear that the situation in Kashmir seems to resemble a situation amounting to genocide. They are also urging upon the Central Government of India that repression should end and Kashmir issue should be solved according to wishes and aspirations of masses.