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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Video appears to show Kashmir detainee abuse : Amnesty International

London, 14 September: Amnesty International has urged Indian authorities to carry out an effective investigation into a video clip that appears to show detainees in Kashmir being stripped and humiliated by security forces.

The three-minute clip, described on social networking sites as "Kashmir’s Abu Ghraib video", apparently shows Jammu and Kashmir police and Central Reserve Police Force personnel herding at least four naked young men to a nearby police station.

"This behaviour is in clear violation of the universal and absolute right to freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," said Donna Guest, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific programme.

The video, apparently recorded by one of the security personnel, has since been removed from social networking sites, including Facebook and YouTube, after the Jammu and Kashmir police reportedly began legal action against the publishers of what it termed a “baseless and malicious clip”.

It is unclear when the clip was recorded, although it was reportedly taken in the north-western town of Sopore.The recorded conversation in Hindi-Urdu suggests that the security force personnel suspected the young men of being involved in throwing stones at the security forces, and that they had been caught after a long chase.

Amnesty International has consistently received reports of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees in various police stations and interrogation centres in Jammu and Kashmir. Such accounts have often included men being stripped naked and humiliated by security force personnel.

The Indian Parliament is currently debating new legislation criminalising torture and the Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram has said the video will be investigated.

However, a statement by Jammu and Kashmir Police to local media indicated that a formal case had been registered against the clip's distributors.

“The approach of the local police raises serious concerns. Instead of investigating and identifying the perpetrators of the humiliating treatment, the police appear to be more concerned about who uploaded and circulated the video clip," said Donna Guest.

"The Indian and Jammu and Kashmir authorities must ensure that the content of the clip is subjected to an independent, impartial and effective investigation. Any officials who are suspected of offences involving human rights violations should be prosecuted in fair trials. (Writer-South Asia)

KWEC- condemns attack on Sheikh Gulzaar's residence on the Pampore

Shakil Ahmad Khan
Pampore, 14 September: JK Police/STF/CRPF later the evening ransacked the house of Writer-South Asia, editor Sheikh Gulzaar's residence on the Pampore by the CRPF/Police. The family accused the police of ransacked the our property and Van, from the house besides thrashing them and Sheikh Gulzaar seriously injured by troops.

Editor's Conference  strongly condemn the targeting of the journalists in Kashmir and said that while the state government is brining ‘embedded journalists’ from New Delhi to report what the government wants them to report, the local journalists who portray the actual picture of the current situation in Kashmir are being deliberately targeted.

The Kashmir writers/editors Conference strongly condemns the attack on the Pampore residence of the South Asia Stragic Affairs editor of  “Writer-South Asia” .

The Kashmir writers/editors Conference while condemning the attack has termed it as attack on the freedom of the press in the Kashmir which has been under attack from the armed forces since the present turmoil erupted in the Kashmir valley.

Residents of Namlabal and Kadalbal, Drangbal  Pampore on Tuesday accused CRPF men of barging into houses and beating up the inmates.Two  vehicles of Sheikh Ashraf, Sheikh Reyaz were completely damaged by the CRPF and near about 200 houses also ransacked by forces in Pampore area.

“CRPF men also barged into the house of late Hurriyat leader Shaheed-e-Azemat Sheikh Abdul Aziz and ransacked it. They also beat up the inmates and misbehaved with the women folk,” locals alleged.
(Writer-South Asia)

Joint Statement of Indian Muslim leaders

Joint Statement of Indian Muslim leaders
on the attacks and burning of Christian properties


New Delhi, 14 September: "We disapprove disrespect to any religion or desecration of any sacred scripture or vilification of any religious personality or attack on any religious place, anywhere in the world, and consider it a despicable and uncivilized act. Islam specifically prohibits such acts and behaviour. Therefore, whatever the provocation, we strongly condemn the attacks on Christian properties and institutions in some places in Kashmir and in Maler Kotla in the Indian state of Punjab. We urge the authorities concerned to take stern legal action against the culprits.

We also appeal to our Muslim brethren in India, in particular, and elsewhere, in general, to show restraint in such situations and limit their disapproval and protest against such incidents to peaceful demonstrations, press statements and memoranda to the authorities concerned." (Writer-South Asia)

Indian troops kill 19 civilians in Kashmir

Srinagar, September 14 In Jammu and  Kashmir, Indian paramilitary personnel killed at least 19 civilians and injured over 200 others when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in several parts of the held valley, demanding of India to vacate the territory without any further delay. Those killed included three teenaged boys, a woman and district president of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front-R.

The killings took place in Bandipore, Tangmarg, Cherare Sherief, Budgam, Pampore, Sopore and Islamabad on Monday. Another youth who was injured on September 6 in the firing of police personnel succumbed to injuries in a Srinagar hospital on September 12.

With fresh killings the death toll of protesters in the ongoing uprising mounted to 96 since June 11.

On the other hand, Indian troops during crackdown operations martyred three innocent civilians at Lashkoot in Bandipore.

Meanwhile, an indefinite curfew was imposed in Poonch town while protest demonstrations were also held in Jammu, Doda, Ramban, Banihal, Batote, Kastigar and Mandi areas.

The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has demanded of India to stop killings of innocent Kashmiris and take solid steps for resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with Kashmiris’ aspirations.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the people of occupied Kashmir were demanding their birthright to self-determination but the Indian troops and police personnel were showering bullets and teargas shells on peaceful demonstrators.

He said that the massive anti-India demonstrations by the people of the occupied territory was a referendum against India. He said that the Indian government was hoodwinking Indian people regarding the Kashmir situation and they were not being apprised of the real situation.

The APHC Chairman said that the Indian government was giving the impression that the Kashmir dispute was a non-issue and Pakistan was involved in the deteriorating situation of occupied Kashmir. He said Kashmiris from 10 years to 70 years of age were demanding for their right guaranteed by the United Nations.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq urged India to give up its rigid stance on Kashmir, realise the ground reality and settle the Kashmir dispute through meaningful tripartite talks including Pakistan, India and the real leadership of Kashmiri people.

He also appealed the international human rights organisations to put pressure on India to stop continued killings of innocent Kashmiris and amicably resolve the dispute so that permanent peace could be established in South Asia.(Writer-South Asia)

India is a Foreign Occupying Power in J & K: Hilal War

By: Johan Simth
War HILAL
Srinagar: Sep,14: Jammu and Kashmir People’s Political Party (PPP) Chairman, Hilal Ahmad War lashed out Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. He said that Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s independence speech amply reflects Indian ideology and thinking and has exposed the Indian tyrannical face and its colonial policy whereby he said that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India.  Mr. Manmohan Singh should ask a 6 year old child of Kashmir that why he is writing on his slate ‘Go India Go’, it is not the violence but a strong sentiment which has its roots in 63 years long history ever since the Indian troops entered Kashmir illegally. Mr.Abdul Ahad Jan, a Sub Inspector of J & K Police who  hurled his official shoes on Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah and chanted Azadi slogans is an eye opener for Indian Prime Minister that their own cops realized that India is a oppressor and an occupying foreign power in Kashmir.   We strongly condemn his statement. PPP reiterate that India is a foreign illegal occupying power in Jammu & Kashmir, said Mr. War. The Statement clearly indicates that Prime Minister of India has lost his vision and wisdom whereby he has forgotten pledges on Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in Indian Parliament and in United Nation, Security Council. He has also forgotten that it is the India’s illegal occupation and its pledges at UNO which has made India a de-facto party to Kashmir Dispute.

War said the situation demands that India and Pakistan should come forward with fresh mind and approach with a single agenda to resolve Kashmir dispute which is the bone of contention between two nuclear powers. Unresolved Kashmir is the biggest hurdle for the peace, progress and development of this South-Asian Region. He once again reiterated that war is no solution to any problem and the initiation of composite dialogue between India and Pakistan is must to break the ice.

PPP chairman stated that a lingering Kashmir dispute will strengthen armed and unarmed freedom fighters in Kashmir. It will also invite an onslaught of Muslim groups in India. Muslim groups may spill over from Srinagar to the rest of India. Therefore, Indian decision-makers need to earnestly resolve all disputes with Pakistan, including the core issue of Kashmir, because no sane Indian decision- maker could, any longer, keep the future of over a billion Indians' social and economic well-being hostage to the Kashmir conflict. India needs to break free from its narrow foreign policy on Kashmir now. For that to happen, India needs to move beyond its stance that Kashmir is an ``integral part''. The Prime Minister of India, Dr.Manmohan Singh, needs to enact his role of a bold visionary and consider a solution to Kashmir outside the rubric of Indian federalism. Because unresolved Kashmir issue is causing constant potential threat to Nuclear War hovering over the whole subcontinent and can engulf the whole world at any point of time.

God forbid, if war breaks it will engulf whole world and undoubtedly India will be a Big looser. India is well aware of the Pakistan’s missile programme which is more powerful than India. Therefore, if war breaks out between two nuclear powers the Metropolitan cities of India will be wiped out. This war will prove a waterloo for India. Therefore, let’s hope good sense prevails upon Govt. of India and its warmongers so that they understand the dynamics and consequences of this unfortunate war, and will explore other peaceful options to settle all outstanding issues with Pakistan including the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir.

Mr. War said, the one and half billion people of this region have every legitimate right to intervene as they are the real stakeholders of peace and to discourage warmongers of India and impress upon Govt. of India to give diplomacy a full chance to find out ways and means to settle Kashmir Dispute and combat the enemies of peace by exposing them. In order to prevent the South-Asian Region from erupting to the prejudice and detriment of the global peace the long-standing Kashmir dispute urgently need to be solved amicably within the framework of fundamental Human Rights and justice to the concerned struggling people.

Let’s make it clear that in case India does not soften its Kashmir Policy and continues to demonstrate obduracy on one pretext or other, then the situation in J & K State shall uncontrollably flair up and disturb the peace and security in the length and breadth of Indian soil.(Writer-South Asia)

Press TV banned in Kashmir

By: Johan Simith
Srinagar, Sept 14: Indian authorities on Monday banned the Iran based world's famous  TV cannel Press TV which had aired a clip about alleged desecration of holy Quran in United States yesterday.

Addressing  a news conference here, the Chief Secretary, S S Kapur today said the Government of India as well as State Government had condemned the proposed move of Pastor Terry Jones to desecrate holy Quran. The good sense prevailed with intervention of concerned authorities of United States that Pastor Terry Jones cancelled forever the proposed condemnable action. He quoted news item of Press TV where it was Pastor Terry Jones was quoted saying. However, Chief Secretary said that it was surprising that only this Television Channel “Press TV” based in Iran, one unknown individual was shown without verification or any authenticity desecrating holy Quran, which seems to be deliberate act and conspiracy to instigate innocent sentiments of people.

He said that he verified from Broadcasting Ministry, Government of India, the authenticity of the “Press TV”. He was informed that this channel is not at all listed among registered channels being aired in India.

He said, therefore, the District Magistrate Srinagar has been asked to issue orders for immediate banning of the un-authorized channel. He said that no other reliable channel of world or of India had aired such commendable images of desecration.

He said that even if such act has occurred at any individual level it is an act which is strongly condemnable and provoking the sentiments of innocent people by deliberate telecasting such images are also against the ethics.

Describing the report of the said channel as totally against the public interest, the Chief Secretary said that this unauthorised and unregistered channel (Press TV) has been banned in all other districts of the state forthwith. He said it seems from the reports of the channel that there is a game plan to provoke and incite the sentiments of people to achieve their nefarious designs.

Kapur also appealed the media to extend their cooperation to the administration in arresting such rumours being aired to vitiate the peaceful atmosphere in the State.

The Chief Secretary further said that as a result of these rumours, a violent mob of people set ablaze a building of the branch of Tyndale Biscoe School at Tangmarg. He said peaceful demonstrations were also held at Kargil and Budgam.
He said that contribution of Biscoe School in Educational arena of the state particularly in the valley has always remained remarkable. Therefore, burning the prestigious institution of Tangmarg imparting education to the people of the area is also an unwarranted act.

The Chief Secretary said that the people of the state are facing tremendous problems as a result of turmoil for last several months, therefore, these incidents should not be allowed to flare up to cause further inconvenience to public at large. He added that miscreants should not take law into their hands.(Writer-South Asia)

INDIA TURNS INTO GRAVEYARD OF HUMAN RIGHT

INDIA TURNS INTO GRAVEYARD OF HUMAN RIGHT
Amnesty International exposes crimes committed by the 
Brahminist rulers

1. Don't Mine Us Out of Existence                                    
2.  Vedanta: This Land is ours
3. Stop Violence Against Women :                                    
4.  Human Rights Abuses with small Arms:
    It's In Our Hands IllIustrative Cases
5. All Rights For All : Stop Discrimination                          
6.  Amnesty International & India
7. India : Persecuted For Challenging Injustice: H.R.          
8.  India : Impunity Must End in Kashmir
9. India: The Battle Against Fear And Discrimination         
10. India Break The Cycle of Impunity and Torture in Punjab
11. India : Abuse of the Law in Gujarat: Muslims Detained illegally
12. India: Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
13. India: Urgent Need to address large scale Human Rights Absuses.
14. India: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review
15. India : A pattern of Unlawful killings by the Gujarat Police
16. India : Five Years on- The Bitter and uphill struggle for justice
17. India: Justice, The Victom-Gujarat Satate Fails to Protect Women

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Monday, September 13, 2010

China will spit on Brahminist face

Chinese and Pakistan soldiers hail the victory
Brother Mleccha is right that Jews and Brahmins are not brothers. We had said this in our book, Brahminism (DSA-2002). While the Jews hated Hitler and his nazis, the Brahmins supported and admired Hitler. They even invited him to India, report Dalit Voice (1/9/10).

The Brahmin symbol, swastika, was given to Hitler. A German scholar at Oxford University, Max Mueller, got the whole Brahmin “Sacred Scriptures” translated to English and published then. Germans took great interest in Sanskrit.
JEWS AS VICTIMS OF BRAHMINS

Hitlerism and the Brahmin terrorist party, RSS, aims and objectives are the same (Ibid DSA p.54). Germany’s outstanding philosopher, Nietzche, praised Brahmins.

Leon Poliakov, a distinguished French (Jew) historian, in his book, The Aryan Myth (1977, New American Library, New York) says Jews were the victms of Brahminism. The Jews engineered both the 1st and 2nd World Wars to fight Hitler and finally defeated him but Brahmins fully supported Hitler and the nazis. All this is history. All the thinking Jews know this historical truth during our meetings in US, London and Paris.

It is only after the collapse of Soviet Russia, the Brahmins started courting the Jews. And making a beeline to USA. But all the brilliant Jews are fully aware of the Brahminist treachery.

Brahmins are carefully watching the world situation. They know, the US led by Jews is collapsing. They also know China which hates Jews is rising. As the saying goes the Brahmin is a good servant but a bad master.

Their fear is once the US loses and Jews are finished there is no use hugging on to Jews.

They are carefully watching the rising China and our information is they have already started licking the Chinese bum.

Informed sources say they have already sent emissaries to Beijing to touch the feet of Chinese leaders and seek their forgiveness for the 1962 war against China. But we have already made sure that China would spit on the face of the crooks — EDITOR.

SAARC Youth Award 2010

Announcement for SAARC Youth Award 2010

Islamabad, September 13: SAARC invites applications from the youth of the region to participate in the “SAARC Youth Award - 2010”. The aim of the Scheme is to provide suitable recognition to extra-ordinary young talents and encourage the overall development of the youth in the region.

The theme of the Award - 2010 has been decided as “Outstanding Contribution to protection of Environment and Mitigating Effects of Climate Change”.
For more details:

Sunday, September 12, 2010

China rejects defeated Brahminist offer to surrender

Bangalore: As China is fast emerging as a super power, overtaking USA, India’s Brahminical rulers continue to generate more hate against China, sheltering the notorious Dalai Lama and adding fuel to fire. Nehru, India’s first Brahmin PM, was a bogus socialist who engineered the war against China (1962) in which India was utterly defeated and ate dust. Thousands of innocent Indian soldiers died, reports in Dalit Voice (September 1-15,2010)

Good servant but bad master: The common masses of India (85%) have no say in the governance of the country but they have nothing against China. It is the Brahminist rulers (15%) who have fought with every neighbour around India, headed by the super power China which has become the darling of all the have-nots of the world. But in contrast the rulers have made India the most hated country.

During our recent visit to London and Paris (July 2010) and discussions with intellectuals familiar with this subject, particularly Brahminism, the curse of India, a new fear is being expressed.

Many experts on the subject of Brahminism say the Brahmin is a good servant but bad master. If you are strong, the Brahmin will lick your boot. But if you are weak he will crush you and suck your blood. Yes. Indian history proves this.

Annie Besant as Cong. president: Applying this logic to China, which is fast emerging as the sole super power of the 21st century, what will be the stand of Indian Brahminist rulers vis-a-vis China?
The fear expressed during our discussions was the Brahminists — scenting danger to their very existence — might quickly reverse their policy and start courting if not bum-licking the Chinese leaders.

Fears of the Western experts are based on the Brahminical behaviour during the British rule which they bitterly hated because it brought about justice, rule of law and introduced English education system - which threatened their very hegemony. In Madras, the Brahmins started the Hindu English daily to fight the British-owned Madras Mail.

Brahmins supported Hitler: Brahmins invited a notorious rejected British woman, Annie Besant, and made her the president of the National Congress, the party of the Brahmins, to fight the British rulers. They even courted Hitler, invited him to India, promising a red-carpet welcome, travelled to distant Germany, supplied their swastika emblem and made them fight the British.

Darling of the British: Though the Jews and the “Jews of India” are cousins, the two fell into opposite camps: The Jews hating Hitler and Brahmins loving the nazi Germany (Read our book, Brahminism, DSA-2002, photocopy available, Rs. 100).

Hitler’s forces even bombed London and the British, the sole super power of the day, was about to be defeated in the World War-II. But the Jews had a better strategy. They blackmailed the US to support British and join the World War in which Germany was finally defeated.Scenting the danger the Brahminists quickly changed sides and started praising the British and hailing Churchill, the war-time British PM. They have no permanent enemy but only permanent interests.

Will Brahminists surrender to China: They never keep all their eggs in one basket. They will be always with the victors. They quickly endeared themselves to the British, as by then they have already mastered the English language.

The Gujarati Bania as their fondest slave, they quickly managed to become the darling of the British. And then managed through the Jewish Viceroy, Mountbatten, the partition of India. The “Jews of India” finally won.
During our discussions abroad with experts on the Jews and “Jews of India” fears were expressed if the history would repeat in the case of China. Will the Brahminists surrender to their today’s enemy (China) so that their tomorrow will be sure and secure ?

But will the Chinese, firmly rooted in their centuries-old philosophy, who had the courage to rebuff their own ideological-mate, Soviet Russia, be fooled by the Brahminist rulers? Will the Brahminists shamelessly apologise for their 1962 war and their continued the enemity for decades?

China has already became the best friend of all the Brahminist enemies surrounding India: Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, Lanka, Maldives. China has completely encircled India.

China hated Jews: No doubt all these enemies of Brahminist rulers will prevail upon China not to give scope to the “Jews of India”. China never allowed the Jews, who brought communism to Russia, to infiltrate its country. Chairman Mao and Premier Chou En-lai were fully aware of the menace of the Jews and also the ‘Jews of India”.

But in war and love — and politics too — there is nothing like a permanent enemy or friend. The Brahminist “Jews of India”, know how and when to stoop to conquer. Did they not give their wives, sisters and daughters to Muslim rulers? All this is part of history. Chanakya’s Arthasastra asks the Brahmin to stoop to conquer.

So we will not be surprised if the Brahminists try to build bridges and skyways to cross into China and bum-lick China.
But during our discussion, we firmly assured our friends that China will never, ever yield. And our predictions are firmly rooted in Chinese history.(Dalit Voice)



Brahminisim in India & Zionisim in West


Racial supremacism of “Chosen People”
Brahminisim in India & Zionisim in West
Horror story of two world famous tyrants

Little known facts of mind control, lying deceit, treachery, treason, blood, sweat, terror, tears, death & destruction by the world’s two most rigidly segregated societies

New threat to Bahujans: Unity of Jews & “Jews of India”

Foreword: Two sides of same chain
A couple of members of  Dalit Voice Family (DVF) did write us on our coverage of Zionist atrocities. Their POINT WAS ZIONIST ISSUES WERE NOT RELEVANT TO India and the Dalits in particular. To such of them we want to assure that Brahminisim and Zionisim are two sides of the same coin and their close collaboration is of world-wide significance.

Dr. Babasahib Ambedkar, the Father of India and our intellectual guide, had identified the principal enemy of Dalits and also India: Brahminisim Both  Brahmins and the Jews originated from the same geographical area around Iran and both exhibited the same genetic characteristics. Both are mental per perverts, megalomaniacs and physically weak.

Today, both the Jews and “Jews of India” are fully linked and working in close cooperation causing turmoil world-wide. The Israeli Mossad is operating in India in full force and the Government of India is officially collaborating with Israeli defence and Intelligence forces to tackle Muslim and Dalits  in India. As India’s oldest and the largest circulated journal of its entire 85% persecuted nationalities denied human rights, we have a responsibility to alert our family members on the danger posed by the Jews even as we discuss the aggression on Indian culture by the “Jews of India”.

So, we cannot separate the two when the mind and the body of both are the same. We were the first in the world to describe  the Brahmins as the” Jews of India”, a description which they whole-heartedly accepted and also exploited.

When we are combating the” Jews of India” with our back against the wall, is it not our duty to learn from the experience of those who are fighting the Jews? Moreover. When the Jews and the “Jews of India”  are in close collaboration to impose their racist dictatorship, is it not our duty to do everything possible to avert such humanitarian disaster?

Mr. V.T. Rajshekar
Dalit Sahitya Akademy
No. 109-7th Cross, Place Lower Orchards Bangalore- 560 003, India

Kashmiris take ‘Quit Kashmir’ protests to Facebook

“I know I’m sexy,” Srinagar resident Junaid Rafiqi proclaims on his Facebook page, below a professionally lit photograph that, among other things, shows off his possession of an expensive pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses. He goes on with an enthusiasm unfettered by punctuation, spelling and grammar: “I got the looks that drives the girls wild I got the moves that really move them. I send chills up and down their spines” [sic., throughout and below].

Facebook users like Rafiqi have been sending chills down the spines of the police in Jammu and Kashmir for much of this summer. Much to the dismay of the authorities, social networks backing the cause of the Islamist-led protesters have proliferated on the Internet.

There is no evidence that social networks have been used to organise or fund the protests — but their content underlines concerns at the growing influence the religious right-wing has over the educated young people in Kashmir.

“We Hate Omar Abdullah,” a network Mr. Rafiqi often participates in, gives some insight into the world of Kashmir’s Facebook rebels. The network hosts a collection of political satire. There is, for example, a digitally-manipulated image of Paul, the celebrity octopus, picking a dead donkey over the Chief Minister in response to a question who has “more guts.”

But much of the satire is venomously communal. Mr. Abdullah is repeatedly referred to as “Omar Singh” — a derisory reference derived, evidently, from the rumour that his wife is Sikh. The former Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah, is shown offering respects at a Hindu temple, while another image caricatures the Chief Minister and his wife as pilgrims to the Amarnath shrine. The administrators of the “We Hate Omar Abdullah,” quite clearly see politicians’ efforts to reach out to multiple religious communities as a betrayal.
“The Dalla [broker] family,” the Ray-Ban wearing Rafiqi asserts in one post on the Facebook page, “should be hanged publicly.” Elsewhere, he refers to Mr. Abdullah as a kafir, or unbeliever. In another post on the page, a member asserts that Mr. Abdullah has been denied permission for pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia because of his marriage — a canard circulated by Islamists soon after he took power.

Some networks host express calls to violence. “Everybody,” exhorts the administrator of “Times Now is Anti-Kashmiri,” “[the] next time you see any Times Now correspondent pick up a stone and throw that on their face!.” Arnab Goswami, the channel’s editor-in-chief, one user asserts, “should be killed.” Ethnic-Kashmiri anchor Mahrukh Inayet comes in for unprintable abuse targeting her gender.

Barkha Dutt, arguably India’s best-known English-language television journalist, also draws flak. “We hate Barkha Dutt” contains claims that her reportage on the clashes lacked balance. Much of it, though, consists of personal invective — and threats. “Hell is meant for her,” writes network member Faizan Rashid, “but she should have some kinna punishment in this world as well…‘stoned to death’…wot say?”
Facebook’s terms of use prohibit content that is hateful, threatening or incites violence. Little infrastructure, though, seems to be in place to enforce those terms.

Not all protest-linked networks promote these kinds of invective. Barring the odd comment about “Indian dogs,” “I Protest Against the Atrocities on Kashmiris” has no abusive language. Most posts on this network address questions of media bias and political grievances, not individuals.

Even networks like this, though, are remarkable for the complete absence of the very kinds of serious commentary and debate they believe is wanting in India’s mainstream print and electronic media.
There is no way of telling just who the participants on these sites are: users contacted by The Hindu, including Mr. Rafiqi, did not respond to requests to be interviewed. For the most part, though, users seem to be English-speaking and Kashmiri. Judging by their clothing and cultural idiom, are middle-class. Despite the aggressive religious chauvinism evident on the site, there is nothing to suggest substantial numbers of users support established Islamist clerics.

The police say most young people held on the charge of throwing stones do not have a high-school education, and are either unemployed or semi-employed — a class quite distinct from that of the Facebook radical.
More likely than not, official concerns at these networks is exaggerated: their scale and reach is tiny. “I Protest Against the Atrocities on Kashmiris” has 810 members — small numbers compared, for example, with the Palestine solidarity page “Palestine Freedom,” which has 101,178. “We Hate Omar Abdullah” has 675 members and “Civil Disobedience 2010-Quit Kashmir Movement” 134. “Bloody Indian Media,” set up to protest the reportage of the street violence in Srinagar, has 58.

It is possible, though, that the ideas they propagate reflect new ideological trends among some sections of young people in Jammu and Kashmir — a prospect which, if true, holds out a real reason for concern.