But Kashmir is bleeding, from torture and rape, from extra-judicial killings. There, India is conducting joint exercises with both the US and Israel. It is learning how to massacre, control and torture, and it is often outdoing its gurus.
The victims of the bestiality committed by the Empire and its client states are our allies. We will not hide the facts! We will not maneuver. We will speak openly and clearly. If we have any 'ideological differences', we will take care of them later. But our message, for now, is clear: enough of torture, enough of rape, enough of genocides.
I told them, to my friends: "Kashmir is not alone. We will stand by you, we will struggle with you, and if needed, we will risk our lives for you!"
The era of cowardice is over. A new age of solidarity has arrived.
As Indian guns were pointed at me, I felt calm. "If anything happens to me, many others will take my place", I thought. I am not a hero, I don't believe in heroism, but I am not a coward, either. And after learning what has been taking place in Kashmir, every pore of my body was supporting the victims.
In Kashmir I felt that Leningrad and Beijing, Caracas, Havana, Asmara and Quito are behind me. The songs of resistance from Srinagar were the songs of resistance of the Russian, Chinese, African and Latin American people.
We are all connected. And that is why I was standing there, in the middle of the road, in Srinagar, facing the soldiers of the Indian state -- those lackeys of the Empire.
"He is really coming with us!" one of the boys said, in disbelief.
"Yes!" I said, squeezing my camera. As always, I wanted to survive. I wanted to survive so much! But not by all means! Not as a slave, not as a lackey.
"Half of humanity is now with us", I thought, as the bandits, those security forces of India, trained openly by US and Israeli began closing in on us, firing teargas canisters, not into the air but directly at people's heads. "And many more will be joining, soon."
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