By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia students on Monday, April 9, staged a protest inside the campus to extend their solidarity with students in Kashmir against whom the security forces had used force and lethal weapons during the protests against the recent killing of militants and civilians in Kashmir.
The protest was organised outside the central canteen lawn under the theme “Memoirs of Resistance: A spoken word event” and students reiterated that Kashmiris should be allowed to exercise their legitimate “right to self-determination”, ratified by UNSC resolutions.
Students from different faculties participated in the event.
“Memoirs of resistance is a continuation of protests held a couple of times before in the campus. The protest is different in a sense that it showcases the artwork of Kashmiri artists pertaining to resistance and students recite resistance poetry in the form of spoken word,” said an organiser of the event.
“The protest is a mix of poetry, political satire, and speeches. Students take recourse to ‘resistance -assertiveness’ narrative over the ‘victim beating’ one, which protesting students believe is a new shift in protests vis a vis occupation of Kashmir,” he added.
A Ph.D. scholar while speaking at the protest said such seasonal protests help in polishing the political thought process of students. “The protests like these, as students, help us to reconnect towards realities and repledge our commitment towards resistance. Such events serve as an avenue for the expression of sentiments, in different forms,” he said.
He also said that “left and right wing in Kashmir are the acolytes of the same ecosystem and their modus operandi is to divide the people and insert the fragmented-statist narratives to puncture the resistance movement to maintain their status quo and they will continue to morph into stooges and collaborators.”
He said that by perpetuating the occupation, New Delhi is cutting its own groves and fearless Kashmiris, loyal not even to life, will become its biggest fear.
Another student from Sociology department in his speech said “New Delhi is using everything at its disposal to create fissures in resistance camps and subvert the resistance narrative by farcical references to Kashmir as proxy-war, cross-border terrorism, radicalism, yet it every time fails in its nefarious designs, miserably. It is better to invest our energy in resistance building rather than looking at what Indian state and its compromised media sells.”
The students also expressed solidarity with those killed recently in Palestine and demanded Israel to be recognised as an illegal entity that promotes state terrorism with the acquiescence of USA. Condemning the killing of Muslim children’s in Kunduz Afghanistan, protesting students lashed at US and NATO and vehemently denounced their intervention in the Middle East and South Asia as global terrorism. “They are carrying their new world order agenda under the garb of world security and democracy, which has resulted in genocides and displacement.”
The protests ended with funeral prayers in absentia for people killed in Shopian, Palestine and those killed in Kunduz.