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Originally Posted by gynn
We finally have the minute of the motion passed by Council on 10th November:
"That this Council supports the Kashmiri community here in Hyndburn and the peoples of Jammu and Kashmir to bring about genuine initiatives aimed at ending the violence and suffering and in favour of a just and lasting peace settlement; that the British government should not itself prescribe any one
solution to the problem of Kashmir and that it resolutely opposes all forms of terrorism and violence, including the use of abduction, torture, murder and rape as instruments in any political cause and calls on all sides in this dispute tocondemn such incidents and to observe in full, international standards of human rights and the right of the people of Jammu and Kashmir to determine their own future in a free, fair and transparent manner. The Council welcomes the helpful dialogue between the Hyndburn MP, Graham Jones, and those seeking the right to Kashmiri self-determination. The Council therefore resolves to write to the Foreign Office Minister to bring his attention to this issue."
Seems ok to me. The Council has a responsibility to serve its residents, and if there is a group resident in the borough from an overseas territory who bring to the attention of the Council an apparent injustice, the Council has a right to bring that to the attention of the relevant Government Department, in this case the Foreign Office.
Which is precisely what the Council has done. Well done HBC.
Its just a shame that what I have just written could have been said two months ago by a Council representative on this website, to avoid the speculation that ensued. |
Call me a cynic, but the time it took for the minutes of this meeting to be made public, versus the wording of the original motion, on the H.B.C. website, has more than a whiff of a stink to it.
According to the official agenda, this was the actual wording of the motion, put forward by Cllr. Allah Dad...
'That this Council supports the Kashmir community here in Hyndburn in condemning the atrocities committed and acts of barbaric violence by Indian Forces in Indian occupied Kashmir which has resulted in women been gang raped, children lined up and shot dead in front of their parents, people been torched and set on fire in their jail cells. Over one hundred thousand people have been killed since 1989 and very recently Amnesty International has found a number of mass graves in Kashmir. All this is because the people of Kashmir want their right of self determination, the right which was recognised by the United Nations in 1948.'
Guess I'll just remain a cynic. Believing that skullduggery happened before the minutes were finally published, so the wording wasn't so grossly partisan, and inflammatory, after it was pointed out on here just how stupid they'd been, being used as pawns in a propaganda war.
Guess it's too much to hope for, that an Accy Web member who was actually at this meeting, would confirm, or deny what the wording of this motion was, which the council voted to support?
Either way, what they did is being used as propaganda, by one side in this conflict.
Just Google 'Hyndburn Kashmir', to see a great deal of evidence which proves this.
Local councils should be dealing with local, rather than international problems, of which we already have an abundance, here in Hyndburn.