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siege more than 100 people were killed and 300 innocent people were ar-
rested. The town’s electricity and water supplies were cut off during the

siege.
Besides the state terror by the Indian administration in Kashmir,
there is also a serious refugee problem. Sefer Turan, a reporter for the
Turkish TV station Channel 7, visited the refugee camps in Kashmir and
the following are some of his impressions from the situation he encoun-
tered there:

The Ambor refugee camp was created in 1990 to house the Kashmiri people fleeing
from Jammu Kashmir. Living standards here are way below normal. People are
crammed into tiny mud huts. We entered a single room hut where we found one
bed. When we asked how many people lived here we were told: “nine”. There are
214 families, or 1,110 people living in this camp. To see that the living standards
here are extremely poor, it is sufficient to enter just one hut. Most huts have two
rooms and a few useless pots and pans, one or two beds, but you would need a
thousand witnesses to make believe that these are actually beds. In the corner sits
a mother with her baby in her arms. We see a small fire with a little pot on it. There
is no sign anywhere of dry or fresh food, and I was too embarrassed to see what is
boiling in the pots. In none of the tents we entered did I see food or (proper) beds.
In one of the tents we saw a small piece of white worn fabric on the floor. This must
have been a bed! I asked how many people lived in this tent and I was told eleven
people. Outside there was the odd tin pot boiling on a little fire. 105
The way this policy of oppression has been able to persist so easily
for over fifty years in Kashmir is to do with the support it receives from

certain anti-Islamic, materialist and Darwinist circles in the West. The
Kashmiri Muslims have been pressured to surrender to radical Hindus
by the UN’s unenforceable resolutions. On the whole, the great majority
of the world’s media simply ignores the tyranny in Kashmir, but when
they choose to remember Kashmir, the situation is usually presented in

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)