India --
The Indian Union is administratively one
extremely large nation, but ethnically it is
a collection of many diverse nationalities.
It is the result of British imperialism
(certainly a fair word, as it was one of the
``jewels in the crown'' of the British
empire). It brought (forced?) together
several disparate and historically separate
ethnic nations into one political state. Many
of these ethnic nationalities have factions
desiring independance. There are at least 20
such secessionist movements, which would
appear to include the following.
However, I have received
e-mail saying ``All
those sites are fake sites designed and
operated by a terrorist organization
Lashkar-i-toiba. Those sites contain most
vile form of propoganda and falsehood
especially targetted at a religious group and
a nation. As per I would agree with most
guidelines regarding freedom of information
but those sites contain fake articles and
books by renowned Indian authors denouncing
Hinduism and India. The site designers are
arbitarily using renowned personalities's
names for this vile propoganda. Some of these
authors are now being sued for this and they
expressed their inability to control the
misuse of their names such.''
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba,
meaning ``Army of the Righteous'', to quote
the U.S. Dept of State, ``is the armed
wing of the Pakistan-based religious
organization, Markaz-ud-Dawa-wal-Irshad (MDI)
-- a Sunni anti-US missionary organization
formed in 1989. One of the three largest and
best-trained groups fighting in Kashmir
against India, it is not connected to a
political party. The LT leader is MDI chief,
Professor Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. [...]
Has several hundred members in Azad
Kashmir, Pakistan, and in India's southern
Kashmir and Doda regions. Almost all LT
cadres are foreigners -- mostly Pakistanis
from seminaries across the country and Afghan
veterans of the Afghan wars. [...]
Based in Muridke (near Lahore) and
Muzaffarabad. The LT trains its militants in
mobile training camps across
Pakistan-administered Kashmir and
Afghanistan. [...] Collects
donations from the Pakistani community in the
Persian Gulf and United Kingdom, Islamic
NGOs, and Pakistani and Kashmiri
businessmen.''
Many of the sites seem to
be mostly pro-Pakistan and anti-India,
instead of being pro-nationality or
pro-autonomy. But I can't imagine that
all the sites are really under the
influence of one organization. As with other
links on this page, the reader must remember
that these are controversial issues and
subject to misleading information. If anyone
can offer information about
Lashker-e-Tayyiba's covert backing of any
sites, or knows of sites giving the opposing
points of view for any of the issues
involved, please let me know! The
Pakistan-based anti-Indian viewpoint seems to
be disproportionally represented on the net.