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Today our heart is Kashmir.

I'd like to remind myself and others here that our present narratives are often so distorted due to deceptive narratives about history

that have found their ways into the discourse.

When the British sold Kashmir to the Hindu dogra in the 1800s, it was on the condition

that they affirm British supremacy. We today are not subjected to that delusion. There were a

people in Kashmir before the British arrived,. There were a people in Kashmir before the British arrived,

and there were a people in Kashmir before the British left behind a mess of casualties

that manifested most prominently in the partition that followed. In fact, there were a people in Kashmir

before the creation of the states of India or Pakistan. Martyr's Day speaks to a massacre in Kashmir before the creation of the states of India or Pakistan.

Martyr's Day speaks to a massacre in 1931 before either were established.

And it's just as important to understand the reality of 1931 in Kashmir as it is to make sense of the bloody occupation in 1947,

just like it's important to understand what 1917 meant for the

Palestinians, as it is 1948. What's at stake is that Kashmir remains a playground of the

global superpowers around it, the way we see happening in places like Syria and Yemen, and that a less than human status is maintained under blockade

as we see in places like Gaza.

The contradiction that India is referred to as the world's largest democracy

while not only recently enshrining Modi's fascism into law with citizenship act,

but continuing to maintain the most militarized zone in the world in Kashmir with up to a million troops.

It is an irony similar to that of Israel being referred to as the only democracy in the Middle East,

with millions of occupied people without citizenship whose subhumanity

is now written into the Jewish nation state law. The tragedy of genocide is not just the genocide

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