JNU Shehla Rashid blasting speech, Must Watch! Pratirodh 2, 9th April : "False nationalism" Defined

Shehla Rashid speech at Pratirodh 2, 9th April Governments of India and Pakistan owe the people an answer for the death of Siachen braveheart Lance Naik Hanumanthappa, JNU student leader Shehla Rashid Shora today said even as she questioned his "deification", saying he fell not to enemy bullets but to weather conditions and lack of facilities. Shehla, vice-president of JNU students' union, said that using the "trope of sacrifice", soldiers have been denied several rights. She also claimed that by the army's "own admission" more soldiers die in Kashmir by committing suicides than in combat. Shehla, an activist of All India Students Association (AISA), said that not only soldiers but women are also "stripped off" their rights through the process of deification. "Whenever they are making a deity out of someone, they are actually oppressing them and we see this with Bharat Mata," she said. "We are told they (soldiers) have made ultimate sacrifice at the borders. Hanumanthappa died at the border. They would like us to believe that he made ultimate sacrifice for the nation. But why are we celebrating Hanumanthappa's death? "Did he die because of an enemy bullet? Did he die because of a Pakistani suicide bomber? No, he died because of the weather conditions where he was posted. And he was not given proper facilities," Shehla said. "Indian and Pakistani governments owe an answer to the people," she said. She was addressing a convention on 'Resistance' at the Constitution Club here where JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar and PhD scholar Umar Khalid were among the speakers. source : http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/India-Pakistan-Government-Owe-People-Answer-on-Deaths-in-Siachen-Shehla-Rashid/2016/04/08/article3370506.ece