Petition For
Peace in Kashmir

Continued from The Indian Protestation

© Prakash J. Mascarenhas, June 2002.

India was partitioned by the English imperialists on the demand of Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of the Muslim League, claiming that Indian Muslims, by virtue of being Muslims, constitute a separate nation.

The Serb national homeland in Yugoslavia was also partitioned to carve out an artificial nation of Bosnia to accomodate the Muslim Serbs, who likewise claimed that they were not Serbs because they are Muslims.

Pakistan invaded the Muslim majority princely state of Jammu & Kashmir and demands its inclusion into Pakistan on the same basis. A large proportion of the Muslim citizens of the territory support this claim, and have been staging a mass-based, persistent Campaign for "Self-Determination" or Secession that has claimed very many lives - both of secessionists and of unionists.

Many states of the world, and these the most influential, support the demand by Muslim separatists in this territory for self-determination, based on this claim, and have been exerting pressure on India to accomodate Pakistan and the separatists, "for bringing about peace in the territory."

Now, however, since both Partition and the campaign in the Jammu-Kashmir territory have the same motive force - the Jinnah or Bosnia Doctrine: "That Muslims, because they are Muslims, are a separate nation;" and since many countries of the world insist that India withdraw from the territory under one guise or another, ostensibly, "for bringing about peace," we, the undersigned, hereby make the following proposal, in two parts.

    Cession of Territory

  1. We, the citizens of India, will exert the utmost pressure on the government of India to agree to entirely, absolutely and unconditionally withdraw from the historically Muslim majority areas of the territory, excepting the Dogra and Ladakh ethnic homelands and a small part of the Kashmir valley itself to house the non-Muslim people of Kashmir, subject to these states ratifying, by International Convention, the above doctrine as being universally applicable, even to their own lands, and making an unconditional and absolute commitment to honour the rights of Muslim citizens of any and every state in the world to secede and erect themselves into their own separate state or nation, purely on this basis: "That Muslims, because they are Muslims, are a separate nation."

    2. Exchange of Populations

  2. India was partitioned to create a Muslim homeland of Pakistan. However, because India did not accept this ideology, we have not had an exchange of populations between ourselves, as was done between Greece and Turkey, although, Pakistan has conducted a de facto expulsion and expropriation of non-Muslims in its territory. Further, we have not recognized the Pakistanian etc. claim that the Muslim people of Kashmir are not Indians. Now, however, for the sake of peace, as demanded by International opinion, and by the most influential states and organisation, we agree to this demand. It must naturally follow that India can no longer have any place for any Muslim in its territory. Therefore, the incomplete work of having an exchange of populations between India and Pakistan must be done; with Muslims repatriated to Pakistan and non-Muslims repatriated to India.

    Therefore, as necessarily involved in the withdrawal of the Indian Union from Kashmir, an absolute exchange of population must be provided for, and India will provide for rehabilitating the non-Muslims from Pakistan, while Pakistan must provide for rehabilitating the Muslims from India.

Coming Into Force

Moreover, this Convention will become operative and will therefore become an obligation upon us, only when the following states and entities have unconditionally ratified it:

  1. The United Nations, both Security Council and General Body, as an International Convention

  2. The United States of America

  3. The European Union, collectively and also by the states of

  4. The United Kingdom of Great Britain

  5. France

  6. Germany and

  7. Italy

  8. Australia

  9. Canada

  10. The People's Republic of China

Signatories to this Proposal:

Name:

Indian Union Passport:

"I, the above named citizen of the Indian Union, support this petition, Kashmir: Petition For Peace and the Indian Protestation on Kashmir."*       

*Please sign this petition only if you are a citizen of the Indian Union and hold a valid Indian passport. Also, please send to us, by post, a signed copy of this petition, together with photocopies of your passport, on the receipt of which we will add you to the list of signatories.

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