Video War And Kashmir

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By Daanish Bin Nabi
The surfacing of videos on social media in Kashmir showing the atrocities against the people is no good sign for the future of Kashmir. Such videos can only add further flames to the already deteriorated situation of Kashmir.
Many political analysts believe that these videos are only surfacing to instill fear among the local populace in Kashmir. However, whosoever agency is releasing these videos on social media networking sites is forgetting the future repercussions it will have in Kashmir.
On other hand, there are also videos showing how common people in two different videos try to rescue the CRPF troopers and in one another video some of the youth heckle a CRPF trooper.
Adding fuel to fire Indian media kept broadcasting these videos during their prime time shows. It is not that they should not report or turn a blind eye, But two points need to be taken into consideration. First, the twist that the anchors give to these videos does not help the situation on ground. Second, these news anchors never show the video clips in which the forces are seen violating the human rights in broad day light.
If one looks at the conflicts of the world from Vietnam to Bangladesh the theory of instilling fear among the common people has never worked instead the armies inflicting atrocities on the local population had always left in utter shame. Dialogue instead of fear-psychosis has always been the end result of these atrocities.
Two videos surfaced on April 15.   Watch them keenly, it gets clear that both the videos are shot by the army themselves and only an apolitical person would believe that the videos got ‘leaked’ by mistake. As the senior journalist Sushil Aaron in his weekly column in Hindustan Times said, that was published on the same day (April 15), that the Modi government evidently wants a new approach and has settled on a policy that combines of three points one among them is to have a “Harsh crackdowns on agitating youth.”
One of the horrifying videos reportedly captured by the polling staff at Budgam which was uploaded on social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and Instagram shows CRPF personnel targeting stone pelters outside a polling booth. The video shows how the CRPF personnel fires hitting one boy in his head and the polling staff can be heard saying “The bullet hit him in the head. He is dead! He is dead!” The polling staff can be heard asking the driver to evacuate them from there, anticipating a revenge attack by villagers after the killing of the youth.
Using force and then deliberately leaking out the videos is not going help in any manner. Resentment ‘against’ only gets further reinstated in the minds of young guns of Kashmir. In last two days, as many as ten videos have surfaced on social media networks and the state government as of now has only ordered an inquiry of one or two videos. It is also the responsibility of the state government to look into the matter and curb this growing trend. Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah took to Twitter displaying his anguish over the incident. He also attached the video screenshot of the youth tied to the Army vehicle as a human shield. Whether the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti gets any success in curbing videos or not remains to be seen!
The former Union Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram in his weekly column summed up the grave situation in Kashmir amply well. He said: “The writing on the wall is clear. The alienation of the people of the Kashmir Valley is nearly complete. We are on the brink of losing Kashmir. We cannot retrieve the situation through a ‘muscular’ policy — tough talk by ministers, dire warnings from the Army Chief, deploying more troops or killing more protesters.”

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