10081965  Proclamation Issued by the Revolutionary Council of Kashmir on 10 August 1965

Proclamation Issued by the Revolutionary Council of Kashmir on 10 August 1965

 

The Revolutionary Council of Kashmir proclaims:

Brave Kashmiris:

 

Arise for now is the time.

 

We have suffered long enough under the oppressive and treacherous rule of impostors and enemy agents. Long enough have we allowed the traitors, to further the enemy designs.

 

Remember that a Hindu despot who ruled over us, in utter disregard of the wishes of the people sold us to India in 1947. This was the second sale of our land through a fraudulent and ignoble deed, which brought the might of the cursed Indian Army into our beautiful and peaceful land.

 

Betrayed, though we were, we fought the enemy on every inch of our sacred soil. And we would have won, but for the intervention of the United Nations, who obtained an undertaking from India that we will exercise our inalienable right of self-determination under a free and fair plebiscite.

 

The United Nations was duped and so was the whole world.

 

India dishonoured her international pledges shamelessly and with utter contempt for world opinion.

 

She played for time to occupy our land. Since then, every day that has passed has been a day of misery and every night, a night of crime. You know what acts of cruelty, sacrilege and barbarity the enemy has been perpetrating under the shadow of guns and bayonets.

 

For years our great Leaders, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah and Mirza Afzal Beg, have been languishing in Indian prisons, but their determination to throw of the yoke of Indian imperialism remains unflagging.

 

We have our children butchered, but every drop of their blood has illuminated the path of our struggle.

 

Our women were dishonoured but in their agony they sanctified the course of our freedom.

 

Our brave fighters lost their lives, but their dying-calls stirred the hearts of their compatriots. The will of our people remains unbroken, their unity might unshaken.

 

The enemy is on the run. We will not rest content till we have chased him out of our land.

 

The time has come for us to deliver the final blow and hereby we take a solemn pledge to take up arms, once again, and continue the fight till:

 

(A) THE USURPERS ARE EXPELLED OUT OF OUR LAND, (B) OUR LEADERS NOW IN JAIL ARE FREED,

 

AND, (C) THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS ALLOWED TO DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF OUR LAND.

 

The Revolutionary Council, which consists of patriots of unimpeachable integrity and men of unswerving faith, has set up, today, the National Government of the people of Jammu and Kashmir which decrees as hereunder.

 

From today (A) All alleged treaties and agreements between the imperialist Government of India and Kashmir stand annulled and are no longer binding on us. (B) The National Government of Jammu and Kashmir formed by the Revolutionary Council of Kashmir is the sole lawful authority in our land. (C) Only the National Government will be legally competent to receive taxes and public dues from the people of the State. (D) Any Kashmir national who wilfully co-operates with the Indian Government or their puppet administration in occupied Kashmir will be treated as a traitor and dealt with as such. (E) Every national of the State of Jammu and Kashmir who may be employed either by the imperialist Indian Government or its puppet administration, in civil or military capacity, shall support the freedom movement of the Revolutionary Council in every possible way. (F) The National Government will issue orders and decrees on the Kashmir National Radio representing the "Voice of Kashmir'' (Sadae Kashmir). (G) Any national of Kashmir, who impedes the freedom movement or disobeys any order or decree of the National Government will be dealt with as a traitor.

 

The Revolutionary Council appeals to the world to support this freedom movement.

 

Now is the time for countries who have pledged themselves to help all freedom movement against imperialism to come to our assistance.

 

We have nothing against the people of India but their Governments have established a record of treachery and dishonesty in the world. We expect all sane and freedom-loving elements in India, and particularly the brave Sikhs, the south Indian and the Rajputs, who have always given us moral support to lend us active assistance.

 

The people of Pakistan have stood by us in our fight. To our regret they have not done as much as we expected of them. Now is the time for them too to join us in our struggle for life and liberty.

 

Let the nations of the world remember that if we go down the light of freedom will be extinguished forever.

 

And, above all, you the people of Kashmir, you are the ones who are on trial. You are the ones who have to fight, for it is your own cause. You are the ones who must win this war for the sake of coming generations, for the sake of freedom and for the sake of the glory of your motherland.

 

ARISE NOW, OR THERE WILL BE NO TOMORROW

 

Issued by the Revolutionary Council of Kashmir, Sadae Kashmir Press, Srinagar. 10 August 1965.