By Colonel Awadhesh Kumar, Special Forces Veteran
Though an ex Senator of Australia, Lee Rhiannon or Lee Brown or is it Lee O’ Gorman, seems to have a skewed sense of geography and even location of places on which she claims to be an authority.
No wonder she writes “ Thousands of eucalyptus trees line the motorway to Istanbul’s International Airport.
As I headed home after six days meeting with Kashmiris and Pakistanis and visiting Kashmir, I took this as a welcome reminder that Australia at times has played a constructive role in this region working with the United Nations on ways to achieve Kashmiri self-determination. “.
For the information of ex Senator, firstly Istanbul and Delhi are not in the same region. Turkey is at one end of Asia where as India is virtually in the Centre known as South Asia.
Secondly, Australia till date, at least openly, has never supported any plan which will lead to cessation of any part of India.
Thirdly she has foolishly given out her dastardly game plan by stating that she visited Pakistan and Kashmir….obviously the illegally Occupied part of Kashmir presently under Pakistan or POK.
Then she has gone straight from Islamabad to Istanbul, nowadays a nerve centre for planning anti India schemes and statements.
She further states “ I chose to visit after Kashmiris living in Australia raised concerns with me about human rights abuses in their homeland, and urged that I should see for myself. When Britain finally ended its colonisation of the subcontinent in 1947, the violence was extreme. “
Just to educate our naïve ex senator, Britain was forced to end its Colonisation of India or they would have been booted out.However very cleverly the crafty britishers managed to divide India into two in such a manner as to usher in a virtual holocaust.
In 1947 the C in C s of both the Countries were still britishers, so again they cleverly ensured that Jammu & Kashmir gets merged with Pakistan. However the Maharaja decided to merge with India.
The Pakistan Army then invaded J&K (and C in C of Indian Army was unaware of such plans, even when he spoke with C in C of Pakistan, ten times a day), initially with help of tribal hordes and later openly with the regular Army.
The people of Kashmir, majority Muslims,stood up like a wall and opposed the raiders and held on till the Indian Army reached to repulse the invaders.
Unfortunately when about one third portion was still to be freed from Pakistani invaders, there was a UN sponsored Cease fire.
As per the cease fire terms, obviously unread by the likes of Rhiannons, Pakistan was supposed to vacate the occupied areas and there after a plebiscite was to be organised. Then some crafty members of Security council again ensured that Pakis never vacate POK.
So Ms Rhiannon, your Owen Down, the sixth Chief Justice of Australia, appointed to implement the Plebiscite, either did not have guts to challenge the rouges in the Security Council or just sold himself. India was occupied with its own development could not do much.
This is a total reflection on likes of Dixons and some of the members of the Security Council. However, saying enough is enough, in the 80’s the UN Military Observers Group were just asked to lay off.
Now coming to the credentials of Rhiannon and for that matter any Australian, has no right to even speak on this subject even if one is a super friend of Pakistan.
It is again the same villainous britishers who usurped a whole continent from their rightful owners. Lee’s grandfather and great grand fathers with other European settlers exterminated the aborigines like vermin.
Till recently they were classified with flora (weed variety) and fauna (dingo variety). Even the Australian National Anthem can be termed as racist.
People in Australia have been living there since thousands of years. Then come outsiders wipe out the locals and have the gumption to sing “ Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free “.
So as far as those with deficiency of Melanin in their Skin are concerned, aborigines and Straits Islanders never existed ……God bless such Savages. And the arrival of prepators of crime is celebrated as Australia Day !!.
No wonder Lee’s heart bleeds on a fake human rights report prepared by people of her ilk who think they are very clever but prove to be otherwise. The bleeding heart write up states “The 49-page report reveals that millions have suffered human rights abuses.
The harm caused by the pellet-firing shotgun, currently the favoured weapon of the Indian military in India Administered Kashmir, is singled out. More than 6,000 people were injured by the metal pellets from 2016 to March 2017.
Many people have lost their sight and at least 17 have died. The report also notes that up to 145 civilians were killed by security forces between mid-July 2016 and the end of March 2018.
Tragically, rape and sexual violence remain weapons of the occupying forces. Kashmiri women have been largely absent from narratives about this region.
The gendered violence that results in thousands of widows, single parent families and women led households heightens women’s feelings of vulnerability, financial insecurity and emotional trauma and stress. “ Without even one verification of the figures she has rattled them off.
However it seems she has never heard of an entire race called Kashmiri Pundits, where are they in her write up or in the UN human rights report ?
What about Indian Security personnel and Indian Army Soldiers who are killed in terrorist attacks on nearly daily basis. These valiant men certainly do not have the right to fight terrorism and their families according to Lee can go to hell.
This female has not even heard of the International Terrorist Hafeez Syeed and the Pakistan Sponsored Terrorism in India in general and J& K in particular.
This Lee character wants that based on the UN report, the personal toll behind the statistical analysis must be addressed.
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein even called for compensation for the victims, as well as an end to the violence and accountability for past and current violations.
For accountability India will start from 1857 and even before and slowly it is getting in a position to do so.
Lee wants that the starting point to achieve the Report’s momentous recommendations is the adoption of a Committee of Inquiry “to conduct a comprehensive independent international investigation into allegations of human rights violations in Kashmir”.
Yes India will back it once we start the enquiry with the Aborigines and other places in Asia and Africa.
The Govt of India has made its stand very clear on the subject. India will not permit any super power or any other country to dictate terms. India’s Sovereignty is non negotiable.
People like Lee, presently out of Senate and even thrown out of her Political party Australian Green, will always want to remain in lime light. So she wants to even involve the Govt of Australia in this and jeopardize the friendly relations between the two.
She writes “ There is a role for Australia here, as a member of the UN Human Rights Council. The UN report and how its recommendations will be managed should be a regular Council agenda item.
Surely the Australian government should lobby the Indian government to lift the ban on foreign journalists and to support the important Committee of Inquiry going ahead, and facilitate the independent investigation having free access within Indian Administered Kashmir.
Australia as an Indian Ocean neighbour has the opportunity to again play a constructive role in this.”
She is pleading “If Australia also has the courage to stand up for Kashmiri’s human rights, we can help save lives.
People like Lee should be made to refrain from poking their nose into others affairs. Her ancestors have done enough damage and now further division of India will be tolerated.
She should know that even if entire Australia raises the issue of bifurcation of J& K then also India is not worried. 1250 million Indians will then have no alternative but to demand that every white skinned is forcibly deported from Australia and sent back to Europe.
The land belongs to Aborigines. India may even make a claim on the Australian continent because it was just the other day (in geological terms) that the land broke away from the Deccan Plateau of India and drifted away. Have no doubts Lee Ji.
Mean while Indian forces will hunt down the terrorist dogs one by one and even carry out surgical strikes inside Pakistan and any where else in case required,to eliminate these mad terrorists.
