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- From: kartik@hls.com (Kartik Chandrasekhar)
- Newsgroups: misc.headlines
- Subject: Re: India and Afghanistan
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 11:50:16 -0600
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- >Tell them at the Kashmiri border that you are an American free lance
- >journalist and see how far into the country you get. Maybe you can do
- >better than the respected journalist, whose first hand report I heard,
- >who declared himself a tourist and feared for his safety if discovered
- >the whole time he was there. Stories in Kashmir are obtained a bit
- >differently in Kashmir these days than in San Diego.
-
- He probably had more to fear from the terrorists than from the Indian
- Armed forces. The militants in Kashmir supported by Islamic
- fundementalists and Pakistan are engaged in their own ethnic cleansing
- in the valley.
-
- They have driven people out of Kashmir and have often kidnapped and
- killed many foriegners and tourists who are declared to be infidels.
- Sometimes its their 'revealing' clothes that have drawn the ire of
- these fundementalists. The same problem is now raising its head in
- Egypt seriously affecting the 3 billion $ tourism industry.. The locals
- in Kashmir have not been spared either according to the frequent
- reports of widespread rape and murder.
-
- The international media usually falls prey to the temptation of being
- anti-establishment. In this case it is imperative that a balanced
- viewpoint is presented.
-
- The 'controlled media' phenomenon is not restricted to India alone.
- Even western countries have used these tactics for manipulating and
- influencing the information feed to the people. Prime examples
- are, the IRA problem in UK and operation Desert Storm. As these
- examples indicate these tactics are sometimes neccesary and in
- fact save lives.
-
- ck
-