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Arundhati Roy: India Mumbai was not 9 / 11

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The bombings in Bombay have been dubbed "India 9 / 11" and there are calls for 9/11-style response, including an attack on Pakistan. Instead, the country must fight terrorism to justice, or face a civil war.

We have lost the rights of our own tragedies. In the Mumbai carnage lasted one day after another horrible, our news channels 24 hours we were informed that in view of "India 11.9." Like actors in Bollywood in a scam of an old movie Hollywood, let's play our parts and our lines to say, even if we know that all is said and done before.

As the tension the region is based, U.S. Senator John McCain has warned that if Pakistan does not act quickly to stop the evil that had personal information that India was to launch air strikes on "terrorist camps" in Pakistan and that Washington could not do anything because Mumbai is India 9 / 11.

Without But November is not September of 2008 is not 2001, Pakistan is not Afghanistan and India is not America. If maybe we should find our tragedy and search through from the rubble with our own minds and our hearts broken so we can reach our own conclusions.

It's funny how in the last week of November of thousands of people in Kashmir for thousands of soldiers from India online vote, while the richest neighborhoods in the richest city in India has come to resemble Kupwara devastated by war – one of the city most devastated Kashmir.

Mumbai attacks are only the latest in a series of terrorist attacks in cities India and towns this year. Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Guwahati, Jaipur and Malegaon have also suffered a series of attacks in which hundreds of ordinary people have been killed or wounded. If the police are right on the people they arrested as suspects, two Hindus and Muslims, all Indian nationals, said clearly that something is very wrong in this country.

If you're watching TV you do not hear people died very common in Mumbai. Were shot in a busy station and a hospital public. Terrorists do not distinguish between rich and poor. They killed two with the same coldness. The Indian media, however, was pierced by the rising tide of horror it has breached the barricades India Shining and sparkling spread of odors in the halls and ballrooms of two glass marble incredible luxury hotels and a Jewish center small.

We heard one of these hotels is an icon of Mumbai. Absolutely true. It is an icon of the facility, adult injustice suffered by Indians on walk every day. The day the newspapers were full of obituaries going through the beautiful rooms they had stayed, the restaurants, they liked (ironically, one called Kandahar), and staff who served them, a small box at the top left corner in the inside pages of a national newspaper (sponsored by pizza company, I think) said: "Hungry, kya? (Eh hungry?). Then, with the best intentions, I am sure, has informed its readers that the hunger index international India junior Sudan and Somalia. But of course this is not war. That one is still fighting in the dalit basti of our people on the banks of Narmada river Koel Karo and plantation Cheng rubber, in the villages of Nandigram, Singur, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Lalgarh slums and shanty gigantic.

That war is not on television. However. So maybe, like everyone else world, we must face that.

Line is a fierce, ruthless fault that runs through the contemporary discourse on terrorism. In side (called side A) are those who see terrorism, particularly "Islamic" the Terrorism, like a madman with hate, the evil that rotates on its axis in its own orbit and has nothing to do with the world around them, nothing to do with history, geography or economy. Therefore, a team he said, trying to place in a political context, or even try to understand it, is tantamount to justifying and is a crime in itself.

Side B believes that if nothing can excuse or justify terrorism, there is a particular time, place and political context, and refuse to see that only worsen the problem and make people more secure. Who is a crime in itself.

The words of Hafiz Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure) in 1990 and belongs to the extremist Salafi tradition of Islam certainly strengthens the case for side A. Hafiz Saeed supports suicide bombing, hate Jews, Shiites and democracy and believes that jihad must be carried out so that Islam, being Muslim, the world's standards. Among the things he said were: "There can be no peace while India remains intact. Cut and cut as thank you kneel and ask. "

Y: "India has shown us this path. We giving India a reciprocal response eye for an eye and in the same way by killing Hindus and Muslims killed in Kashmir. "

When secondary A welcome speech by Babu Bajrang Ahmedabad, India, which is considered a Democrat, not a terrorist? He was one of the most important centers of Gujarat 2002 genocide and said (the camera): "We did not spare a single Muslim shop, we were set on fire … hacked burned, set fire … We believe in setting them on fire because these bastards do not want to be cremated, they are afraid of him … I have just one last one … let me be sentenced to death … No matter if I'm hung … only give me two days before my hanging and I will have a field day where seven or eight lakhs Juhapura [seven or eight hundred thousand stay] of these people … I'll finish … Leave a little more death … at least 25000-50000 must die. "

And where in the scheme of things, well, we put the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bible, or, Our nation is defined by the Member States Golwalkar, who became head of the RSS in 1944. He said: "Since that day, evil, when Muslims first landed in Hindustan, so far, the Hindu Nation has been fighting bravely in taking these spoilers. The Spirit of the race was taking consciousness. "

Or: "To maintain the purity of race and culture, Germany shocked the world by purging the country of Semitic races – The Jews. Race pride in the highest has been manifested here … a good lesson for us in Hindustan to learn and enjoy. "

(Of course, Muslims are not the only ones in the firing of firearms of the Hindu right. Dalit are systematically targeted. Recently in Kandhamal in Orissa Christians have been the target of two and a half months of violence that claimed more than 40 dead. Forty thousand people were driven from their homes, half of whom live now in refugee camps.)

All these years, Hafiz Saeed has lived the life of a respectable man in Lahore that the head of Jamaat-ud Dawa, which many believe organization is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba. Continued to recruit young people for their own jehad intolerant sermons twisted, burning. On 11 December, the UN imposed sanctions against the Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The Pakistani government has succumbed to international pressure and placed under house arrest Hafiz Saeed. Bajrang Babu, however, is free bail life and the life of a respectable man in Gujarat. A couple of years after the genocide, left the VHF to join the Shiv Sena. Bajrang ex mentor Narendra Modi continues being the prime minister of Gujarat. Then, the man who presided over the genocide in Gujarat was re-elected twice, and is deeply respected by the major houses of companies India, Reliance and Tata.

Suhel Seth, a businessman and television company spokesman, said recently: "Modi is God." Officials overseeing and sometimes even helped sweeps Hindu rioters in Gujarat have been rewarded and promoted. The RSS has 45,000 branches, its own range of organizations charities and volunteers to preach their doctrine of hate 7 million across India. Narendra Modi include, but former Prime Minister AB Vajpayee, the current leader Opposition LK Advani and a host of other senior politicians, bureaucrats, police and intelligence agents.

If this does not complicate our picture of secular democracy, we must register that there are many Muslim organizations in India to preach his own intolerance.

So, overall, if I had to choose between Side A and Side B. Side B Choose need context. Always.

In this sub-continent this context is the nuclear partition. Radcliffe Line, that separates India and Pakistan and ravaged states, districts, villages, fields, communities, water systems, houses and families, has soared during the night. It was Great Britain, once a final farewell to us. Partition unleashed the slaughter of more than one million persons and the largest migration in human population in modern history. Eight million people, Hindus fleeing new Pakistan, Muslims fleeing the new way of India have fled their homes with nothing on their backs.

Each of these people carries and transmits a history of unimaginable pain, hatred, horror, but also the desire. The injury, but the muscles unsevered torn, blood and broken bones yet we are locked in an embrace with all the hatred, the familiarity, but also love terrible. Kashmir left trapped in a nightmare of which can not get out of a nightmare that has claimed over 60,000 lives. Pakistan, the land of pure, became an Islamic republic, and then very quickly a corrupt state, violent military, openly intolerant of other faiths. India itself has declared a global democracy and secular. It was a great company, but Babu predecessors Bajrang been followed by the progress of work since the 1920s, dripping poison in the blood of India challenging the idea of India, even before birth.

In 1990, they were ready to bid for power. In 1992, Hindu mobs stormed urged by LK Advani in the Babri mosque demolition. In 1998, the BJP was in power at the center. The U.S. war terrorism that the wind in the sails. They were allowed to do exactly what he wanted, even to commit genocide, fascism and then present them as a legitimate form of chaotic democracy. It happened at a time when India opened its huge market for international finance and international business interests and media houses that were for the project as a country that could do no wrong. This gave all the Hindu nationalist impulse and the impunity they needed.

This, then, the broader historical context of terrorism in the subcontinent and the bombings in Mumbai. It is not surprising that Hafiz Saeed of Lashkar-e-Taiba is Shimla (India) and LK Advani of the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh is Sindh (Pakistan).

Just as this occurred after the 2001 attack on the Parliament, the burning of Sabarmati Express in 2002 and the bombing of Samjhauta Express 2007, the Indian government announced that it had "indisputable" evidence that the Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed by Pakistan's ISI was behind the strikes Mumbai. The Lashkar has denied any involvement, but is still the main accused. According to police and intelligence Lashkar operates in India through an organization called the Mujahideen of India. Two citizens of India, Sheikh Mukhtar Ahmed, a police officer working for the Special Police of Jammu and Kashmir and Tausif Rehman, a resident of Calcutta, West Bengal, have been arrested in connection with the attacks in Bombay.

So now the charge against Pakistan is a bit messy. Almost always, when these stories unfold, reveal a complex of fever, trainers, recruiters, intermediaries and intelligence infiltration and cons e-Intelligencer cooperative work not only both sides of the border India and Pakistan, but in several countries simultaneously. In today's world, trying to identify the source of a terrorist attack and isolate within the borders of a nation-state is very similar to trying to identify the source of the money from the company. It is almost impossible.

In such circumstances, the air attacks to "grab" terrorist camps can take sides, but certainly not "out" terrorists. Neither the war. (Also, in our bid for the moral high ground, try to remember that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE in Sri Lanka neighbor, one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world have been trained by the Indian army.)

Thanks especially the part that has been forced to play as a U.S. ally for the first time in its war support for Afghan Islamists then in its war against them, Pakistan, whose territory is awash with contradictions, is moving toward civil war. As agents for jihad recruitment in the United States against the Soviet Union, was the work of the Pakistani army and ISI to feed and channel funds to Islamic fundamentalist organizations. After connecting these Frankenstein and his release in the world, the United States if they could slow as companion dogs whenever he wanted.

Although he did not expect to return in the heart of the country on 11 September. Still Once Afghanistan has been redone with violence. Now, the remains of a devastated Afghanistan has again failed Pakistan border. No one in particular, not the government of Pakistan denies that he runs a country that threatens to collapse. Terrorist training camps, the mullahs and fire-breathing maniac who believe that Islam, or should rule the world is largely the detritus of the two Afghan wars. His anger toward the rainy season low in Government of Pakistan and Pakistani civilians as much, if not more than him in India.

If at this stage, India decided to go war can be origin of the whole region into chaos is total. The remains of a bankruptcy, destroyed Pakistan stranded on the coasts of India, which threatens us as never before. If Pakistan collapses, we expect to have millions of non-state players "with an arsenal of nuclear weapons at its disposal as neighbors. It is difficult to understand why those who run ships of India are so eager to repeat the mistakes of Pakistan and condemnation call this country, inviting U.S. to continue to mingle awkwardly and dangerously our business very complicated. A superpower does not allies. Has sole agents.

On the positive side, the advantage is going to war is the best way for India construction to avoid facing the serious problems of our brow. Mumbai attacks were broadcast live (and exclusive!) All or most of the known channels 67 and 24-hour news God how internationals. anchors in their studies and television journalists to "Ground Zero" in a steady stream of enthusiastic comments. For three days and three nights, we watch with disbelief as a small group of very young men armed with firearms and artifacts impotence exposed to the police, the elite National Security Guard and Navy commands the powerful nation of nuclear powered.

They did so, they have sacrificed indiscriminately at unarmed people, train stations, hospitals and luxury hotels, regardless of class, caste, religion or nationality. (Part of impotence Security forces have to do with worrying about the hostages. In other situations, for example, in Kashmir, their tactics are not as sensitive. Entire buildings are flown. Human shields used. U.S. and Israeli armies do not hesitate to send cruise missiles into buildings and down daisy cutters on weddings in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. ) But this was different. And it was on television.

The provision indolent boy to kill terrorists – and killed – their audience International hypnotized. They've got something different to the usual diet of suicide bombings and rocket attacks that people have become accustomed to the new. It was not something new. Hard killing 25. The performance was so horrible. TV ratings soar. Ask any television mogul or business e-poster measures minutes time in seconds, not what he is.

Since then the murderers are dead and the living is, all but one. (Perhaps in the chaos, some escaped. We'll never know.) Throughout the impasse terrorists no request was made and expressed no willingness to negotiate. Its aim was to kill people and cause that could further damage before they died. They have left us completely dumbfounded. When we say that "nothing can justify terrorism" than most of us are saying is that nothing can justify taking human life. We say this because we respect life, because we believe is valuable. So what we do with those they do not care about life, not even themselves? The truth is that we have no idea what to do with them because we feel that, even before he died, traveled to another world where we can not reach them.

A TV channel (India TV) broadcast a telephone conversation with one of the attackers, who called Imran Babar. I can not guarantee the accuracy of conversation, but the things they talked about the things contained in the e-mails "terror" that have been sent by other attacks on India. The things you do not want to talk about: the demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992, the genocide of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, the brutal repression in Kashmir. "You're surrounded" said the anchor. "Of course, going to die. Why not surrender?

"We die every day," said a strange way, mechanical. "It is better to live one day as a lion, and die this way." Seems not to want to change the world. It seemed to want to take with him.

If men were in fact members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, why do they care that many of its victims are Muslims, or that their action could cause a severe attack Muslim community in India, whose rights they claim to be fighting? Terrorism is an ideology that has no heart and like most of ideologies with an eye on the box large, people are not included in their calculations, except that the collateral damage. It has always been a part of, and often the target of the terrorist strategy of exacerbating a bad situation to expose hidden faults. The blood of martyrs "watered terrorism. Need Hindu Hindu terrorists killed, terrorists killed Communists should proletarians, Islamist terrorists have killed Muslims need. It becomes the death of demonstration, proof of victimization, which is at the heart of the project. One act of terrorism is not in itself aims to achieve a military victory, at best, is to be a catalyst that triggers something else, something much bigger than him an earthquake, a realignment. The act itself is the theater, the spectacle and symbolism, and today, the scenario in which it performs its tricks and acts of bestiality than television. Although the attack has been condemned by television presenters, the effectiveness of the terrorist attacks have been magnified by a thousand television.

During endless hours of endless analysis and opinion evidence, at least in India, has been very little discussion of the elephant in the room: Kashmir Gujarat and demolition of the Babri mosque. Instead, he retired diplomats and experts in political debate the pros and cons of war against Pakistan. We were rich threat not paying their taxes unless their safety was not guaranteed (Is it okay that the poor are not protected?). We've had people suggest that the passage of government down and all states of India shall be submitted to an independent legal entity. We had the death of former Prime Minister VP Singh, the hero of Hindu Dalits lower caste and upper caste unpleasant and pass without a mention.

We Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City and co-author of the Bollywood film Mission Kashmir, give us his version of George Bush's famous "Why do they hate us" freedom of expression. His analysis of why religious fanatics, Hindus and Muslims hate Mumbai: "Perhaps because Mumbai is synonymous with profit, secular dreams and the indiscriminate opening." His recipe: "The best answer to terrorism is to dream bigger, make more money and more than ever to visit Mumbai. "No, George W. Bush is asking Americans to go shopping after 9 / 11? Ah, yes. 9 / 11, the day can not go.

Although a chapter of horror in Mumbai is complete, a else could have only just begun. Day after day, quietly powerful sector of the Indian elite, driven by gangs that are the anchors of Fox News Search almost led to radical left political attack stupidly, all politicians, praising the police and army and almost demand a police state. No wonder that those who have grown fat on the scraps of democracy (as) should now speak of a police state. The era of the "profit" is a thing the past. We are now entering the era of the Force, and democracy was a terrible uses to transmit.

TV dangerous, stupid as cards the police are good politicians are bad and business is good are bad chief ministers and army is a good government is bad / good is bad are Pakistan India trendy television that have already lost their audience in a state of almost uncontrollable hysteria.

Unfortunately, this intellectual regression childhood comes at a time when people of India have begun to see that in cases of terrorism, the role of victims and perpetrators sometimes changes. It is understood that the people of Kashmir, their terrible experiences of the past 20 years, have perfected an exquisite art. On the mainland, we are still learning. (If Kashmir is not willing to join in India, begins to look as if India's integration / disintegration eaten in Kashmir.)

It was after the 2001 attack on Parliament that the serious issues first began to rise. A campaign by a group of lawyers and activists showed how innocent people were framed by the police and press, how evidence was manufactured, how the witnesses have lied, how the criminal due process had been violated at all stages of the investigation. Finally, the court acquitted two of the four defendants, including SAR Geelani, the man police said was the mastermind of the operation. A third, Showkat Guru, was acquitted of all charges against him, but was later convicted of a new, a minor offense. The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of another defendant Afzal Mohammad. In its ruling, the Court recognized that there was no evidence that Mohammed Afzal belonged to a terrorist group, but went on to say, it's just shocking "The collective conscience of society will be satisfied if capital punishment is awarded to the author." Even today, no one knows exactly who the terrorists who attacked Parliament Indian and have been working.

More recently, on 19 September this year, we had the highly controversial "meeting" Batle House in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, where the special cell of Delhi police killed two Muslim students in his rented apartment in very questionable circumstances, saying that were responsible for the serial attacks in New Delhi, Jaipur and Ahmedabad in 2008. Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mohan Chand Sharma, who played a key role in the attack investigation Parliament, was killed as well. It was one of many of India 'experts' meeting known and rewarded for having summarily executed several "The terrorists. "There was a protest against the special cell of a number of people, ranging from eyewitnesses in the local community to the senior leadership of the Congress Party, students, journalists, lawyers, academics and activists, called for a judicial inquiry into the incident. In response, the BJP and LK Advani Mohan Chand Sharma hailed as a "Braveheart" and launched a concerted campaign which targeted those who had dared to question the integrity of the police, saying he was "Suicidal" and calling the "anti-national. Of course, there was no investigation.

Just days after the event Batle House, another story about "The terrorists" have appeared in the news. In a report presented to a court session, the ICC said a team of special cell of Delhi (The same team that led the meeting Batle House, including Mohan Chand Sharma) abducted two innocent men, Irshad Ali and Qamar Moarif in December 2005, planted 2 kg of RDX and two pistols on them and arrested them as "terrorists" who belonged to Al Badr (which operate in Kashmir). Ali Qamar who have spent years in prison are just two examples among hundreds of Muslims who have been imprisoned Similarly, tortured and even killed on false charges.

This situation changed in October 2008, when the Maharashtra anti-terrorism Squad (ATS) investigating the Malegaon blasts in September 2008 a preacher arrested Sadhvi Pragya Hindu, a man called of God, Swami Dayanand Pande and Lieutenant Colonel Purohit, Indian army officer. All orders belong to Hindu nationalist organizations, including a Hindu supremacist group called Abhinav Bharat. The Shiv Sena, the BJP and RSS condemned the Maharashtra ATS, and vilified by his boss, Hemant Karkare, saying it was part of a political conspiracy, and claims that "the Hindus were not terrorists." LK Advani has changed its mind about its policy rogue police and made huge demonstrations rousing speech in which he denounced ATS for daring to question the holy men and women.

On November 25 newspapers reported that ATS investigating the role of VHP leader Pravin Togadia be visible in the attacks in Malegaon. The next day, in a remarkable twist of fate, Hemant Karkare was killed in the Mumbai attacks. Most likely, the new leader of any kind, will be difficult to resist the political pressure is for to be brought upon him during the investigation Malegaon.

While the Sangh Parivar does not seem to have reached a final decision on whether or not anti-national and suicidal to question the police, Arnab Goswami, head of the times of the antenna and television, has stepped to the plate. Swore designation demonization and openly by those who have dared to question the integrity of the police and armed forces. My name and name of the famous Lawyer Prashant Bhushan came on several occasions. At one point, while interviewing a former police officer, Arnab Goswami was the camera: "target =" _blank "href =" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/arundhatiroy "> Arundhati Roy, Prashant Bhushan, said," I hope they look. We think they're disgusting. "For a conductor TV to do this in an environment that allegations and wild as that prevailing today, the amount of incentives and threats, and probably in different situations have cost a journalist his job.

So, as a man who aspires to become the next Prime Minister of India, and another is the public face of a conventional television, citizens have no right to raise questions about the police. This in a country with a history of the shadow of suspects of terrorism, disorder research, and fake "encounters." This in a country with the largest number of deaths in custody in the world and continues to refuse to ratify the International Covenant on torture. A country where those who go to the torture chambers are the lucky ones because at least they have escaped the "encounter" meeting with our experts. A country where the line between the underworld and encounter specialists makes it almost does not exist.

How can those of us that her heart is sickened by the knowledge of all this point of view of Mumbai attacks, and what should we do about it? Some people say that the U.S. strategy has been successful to the extent that America has not suffered a major attack on its soil from the house 9 / 11. However, some argue that what United States is suffering is much worse now. If the idea behind the 9 / 11 terror attacks was cut in the United States shows its true face, the more successful could be called terrorist? The U.S. Army is involved in two wars without end, which made the U.S. the most hated country in the world. These wars have greatly contributed to the collapse of the U.S. economy and who knows, maybe at the end of U.S. empire. (Hopefully battered, bombed Afghanistan, the cemetery Soviet Union, will result from this one too?) Hundreds of thousands of people, including thousands of U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The frequency of terrorist attacks against U.S. allies with the authorities (including India) and U.S. interests around the world has increased significantly since 9 / 11. George Bush, the man who led the American response to 9 / 11 is a despised figure, not only international but also for its own people. Who can say that the U.S. winning the war against terrorism?

Homeland Security has cost United States billions of dollars from the government. Few countries certainly not, India can not afford those prices. But even if we could, the truth is that vast country of ours can not be guaranteed or monitored in the way the U.S. has been. This is not the kind of country. We have nuclear weapons which is hostile slowly out of control as a neighbor, we have a military occupation of Kashmir shamefully persecuted and poor minorities more than 150 million Muslims who are subject to a community and pushed against the wall, that young people do not see justice on the horizon and, if they have lost all hope and radicalization, end up as a threat, not only for India but for the world. If ten men can contain NSG to command and the police for three days, and if it takes half a million troops to keep the Kashmir valley, do the math. What kind of Security National India can guarantee?

Neither this matter will be any quick fix. The laws against terrorism are not intended for terrorists, are for people who do not like governments. Therefore, they have a conviction rate of less than 2%. They are just a way to put people away without bail inconvenience for a long time and possibly let them go. The terrorists who attacked Mumbai as unlikely to be deterred by the prospect of the denial of a bond or be condemned to death. This desired.

What we know today is back, the cumulative result of decades of quick fixes and Dirty Deeds. The carpet beneath our feet splashed.

The only way to contain (it would be naive to say at the end) terrorism is to look the monster in the mirror. We stand at the crossroads. A signal Justice indicates, another civil war. No signs and no others again. Select.

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