The British stopped the Indians from representing their own people. India is asking Hurriyat to do so. The FF during British raj didn't had the option of forming local government, nor had the right to represent themselves in the British parliament. India is willing to give them a bigger stage to raise their voice. Hurriyat is denying the rights given to it, all the while other Kashmiri parties have snatched it and have a bigger representation. Who do you think has more influence in Kashmir - Abdullah or Geelani? Entire India can hear the views of elected representatives, the separatists leader with dozen parties have all their voices muffled out.
It was formed for achieving the right of
self-determination according to
United Nations Security Council Resolution 47. "Hurriyat" in
Koshur (as well as in
Arabic,
Urdu and
Persian, from which the word is taken) means "liberty".
"National aspirations must be respected; people may now be dominated and governed only by their own consent.
Self determination is not a mere phrase; it is an imperative principle of action. . . . "
—
Woodrow Wilson with his famous
self-determination speech on 11 February 1918 after he announced his
Fourteen Points on 8 January 1918.
The right of nations to
self-determination (from
German:
Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Völker), or in short form, the
right to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern
international law (
jus cogens), binding, as such, on the
United Nations as authoritative interpretation of the Charter’s norms.It states that nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair
equality of opportunity have the right to freely choose their
sovereignty and international
political status with no external compulsion or interference which can be traced back to the
Atlantic Charter, signed on 14 August 1941, by
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, and
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who pledged The Eight Principal points of the Charter. The principle does not state how the decision is to be made, or what the outcome should be, whether it be
independence,
federation,
protection, some form of
autonomy or even full
assimilation.Neither does it state what the
delimitation between nations should be — or even what
constitutes a nation. In fact, there are conflicting definitions and legal criteria for determining which groups may legitimately claim the right to self-determination.
The British stopped the Indians from representing their own people. India is asking Hurriyat to do so. The FF during British raj didn't had the option of forming local government, nor had the right to represent themselves in the British parliament. India is willing to give them a bigger stage to raise their voice. Hurriyat is denying the rights given to it, all the while other Kashmiri parties have snatched it and have a bigger representation. Who do you think has more influence in Kashmir - Abdullah or Geelani? Entire India can hear the views of elected representatives, the separatists leader with dozen parties have all their voices muffled out.
How can they accept a right from for a larger stage of a state they dont recognize as theirs and want to break off from?
Lets say I am a Kashmiri and since I dont believe India has any right over Kashmir....I dont believe in having anything to do with India let alone take part in its elections ...why should I when I am not Indian but Kashmiri.....
