AmeriKan snot noses to busy with the video games and the partying?
Or is the Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing, AmeriKan MSM just not telling us of AMERICAN PROTESTS -- unless they are gays or immigrants, right?
And DO PROTEST CHANGE ANYTHING here in America anymore?
Not the ones I go to.
"Youthful agitators renew interest in disputed Kashmir" by Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times | August 3, 2008
SRINAGAR, India - The students at the University of Kashmir have freedom on their minds.
Not from the tyranny of exams and professors, or of too-strict parents. What many young people in Srinagar are dreaming of is freedom for their divided land, instead of being caught in the middle of a decades-old tug of war between India and Pakistan.
Let's RECOGNIZE them like KOSOVO!!!!
They got a taste of self-rule recently when thousands of residents rose up against a government decision to set aside forest land for use by Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine in India's only predominantly Muslim state, Jammu and Kashmir. The protests, in which at least six people were killed, were the biggest in years and forced not only an official reversal but the collapse of the state government this month.
It was a rare triumph of people power in the eyes of many Kashmiris, none more so than the youthful agitators in their teens and 20s who formed the majority of those chanting in the streets.
"It was like we were celebrating our freedom," said law student Saaqib Amin, 27, savoring the memory. "People on the roads talked about when we get freedom how much we will celebrate."
India and Pakistan each control parts of the contested Himalayan region, but both claim it in full and have gone to war twice over it. If nothing else the protests put India on notice that it has yet to convince the younger generation of the benefits or justice of its rule in this part of Kashmir.
After nearly two decades of fighting between the Indian army and Kashmiri Muslim militants, some backed by Pakistan, India has won few hearts and minds on its side of the divide, where for youths, unremitting bloodshed is almost all they have ever known.
More than 60,000 people have been killed since rebel groups took up arms in 1989 to press for a merger with Pakistan or outright independence, according to human rights groups. Civilians have been blown to bits by militant bombs and grenades; others have been kidnapped, tortured, and killed by Indian security forces.
Violence has dropped in the past few years amid peace talks between India and Pakistan, but tragedy still scars this land of breathtaking natural beauty, and an estimated half-million Indian troops remain posted in Kashmir, their fatigues and automatic weapons everywhere in evidence.
Here in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, there is anger at the militants and the Indian security forces. But much more of it is reserved for the latter.
"We are the children of conflict. That shaped our minds," said Shahid Mohammad Lon, 22. "I've seen people butchered before me by Indian troops. I see that India is not my friend."
His dormitory mates nodded in agreement as they sat around talking on the University of Kashmir's leafy campus.
They nodded even more vigorously when Lon, a mass-communications major, explained that, for members of his generation, the slogans of the '90s demanding unification with their Muslim brothers and sisters in Pakistan have given way to shouts for full-blown independence.
So, WHERE IS BUSH the LIBERATOR?
That is anathema to the leaders of India and Pakistan. But such a scenario might not be so unacceptable to the people they govern. In a rare survey of attitudes toward Kashmir on either side of the de facto border, a US-based polling outfit reported earlier this month that only 35 percent of Indians and 11 percent of Pakistanis would oppose independence if the majority of Kashmiris wanted it.
Yup, MOST PEOPLE DON'T CARE and want the WORLD to live in peace -- except for SHITHOLE LEADERS and CONTROLLERS!!!!!!
Despite the more peaceful atmosphere these days, it is hard to find anyone here content with the status quo.
"We can't stay in an environment like this. Change is necessary. You cannot stay in an occupied land," said Maroosha Muzaffar, 23.
"It's up to youth to come out and stage protests and change things for themselves," she added. "They have the passion. They have the energy."
The recent land protests were a timely vehicle for channeling that energy. The uproar centered on the state government's decision to transfer 99 acres of land to a Hindu trust that runs a pilgrimage to southern Kashmir, where a giant icicle inside a cave is believed to be an incarnation of the god Shiva.
To many Kashmiris, for whom land is a highly emotive aspect of local identity, that was too much. Some sniffed a government plot to bring more Hindus to Kashmir to dilute its Muslim majority."I wouldn't be surprised to see some violence in Kashmir soon.
See: There is NO Satan. There is NO Hell. There Is Only The MOSSAD
