I have spoken out for justice: Arundhati Roy facing arrest

[Hannah Bell]

I WRITE this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning's papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public meetings on Kashmir.

I said what millions of people here say every day. I said what I, as well as other commentators, have written and said for years. Anybody who cares to read the transcripts of my speeches will see that they were fundamentally a call for justice. I spoke about justice for the people of Kashmir, who live under one of the most brutal military occupations in the world; for Kashmiri Pandits, who live out the tragedy of having been driven out of their homeland; for Dalit soldiers killed in Kashmir, whose graves I visited on garbage heaps in their villages in Cuddalore; for the Indian poor, who pay the price of this occupation in material ways and who are now learning to live in the terror of what is becoming a police state...

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists and those who prey on the poorest of the poor roam free.


http://socialistworker.org/2010/10/27/arundhati-roy-speaks-out

[Starry Messenger]

1. k & r

[malaise]

2. K & R

Fascism is nigh!

[political_Dem]

3. K and R.

[ceile]

4. K&R

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Roy is one of the great minds of our time

She is one of the best speakers I have ever heard. A nation that does not value such a person as this woman is a nation without a center, without values.

[donheld]

6. I love her.

[EFerrari]

7. Her interview with Amy:

Acclaimed Indian Author Arundhati Roy Faces Arrest for Questioning India’s Claim on Kashmir

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/27/acclaimed_indian_author_arundhati_roy_faces

[Odin2005]

8. WHAAAAAT!?!

You gotta be kidding me? Roy is one of the best reporters in the world! Bastards!

[bluesmail]

9. K&R

[blondeatlast]

10. k/r. The world is watching and Kashmir is not forgotten. nt