Finally a brave voice speaks truth on #Kashmir at Tom Lantos HR Commission hearing in US. My friend @sunandavashisht: ‘My father is a Kashmiri Hindu. My mother is a Kashmiri Hindu. I’m a Kashmiri Hindu. And our home & lives in Kashmir were destroyed by radical Islamist terror’.
‘We’ve seen ISIS level horror in Kashmir 30 years before west was introduced to brutalities of Islamist terror. Where were advocates of Human Rights when voices blaring from mosques in Kashmir said they wanted Kashmir without Kashmiri Hindu men but with women?’ - @sunandavashisht
‘An Islamist State of Kashmir where other religions are not welcome & tolerance of any other viewpoint is absent is no citadel of Human Rights. Terrorism is the ultimate opponent of Human Rights. Human Rights cannot & should not take precedence over Human Life’ - @sunandavashisht
Today I’m delighted that Kashmiris have same rights as Indian citizens. If something as serious as Women’s right to own property and granting LGBTQ rights amongst many others has been accomplished by abrogation of Article 370, internet restoration isn’t far. - @sunandavashisht
Path forward we have to help India in eradicating radical Islamist terror in Kashmir. We’ve to be cognisant of this fact. Why is it that nobody on this panel except me talked about Islamist terror? Is Islamist terror a figment of my imagination? No, it isn’t. - @sunandavashisht
