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On April 22nd, 2025, around 2.45 PM, a dastardly attack on the Hindus was executed by the Islamists from "The Resistance Force", an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Toiba - a terrorist organization backed by Pakistan's Army, intelligence, and establishment.
Four gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists, after checking if there were Hindus or not, leading to fatalities and injuries.
The Economic Times also reports the Nazi-style Hindu-hate actions of the Pakistan-backed jihadi terrorists.
Who were these terrorists and how did they go about it?
Indian media is reporting that the Pahalgam attack site was inexplicably opened to tourists by a "tour operator" on April 20th, just two days prior to the attack!
A woman from Uttar Pradesh, who narrowly escaped the Pahalgam massacre, recalled being unsettled by a local pony handler’s strange tone and behavior. Trusting her instincts, she and her friends canceled their planned ride to the upper meadows — a decision that saved their lives, as the attack erupted minutes later at that very spot. The same pony handler, now under police custody, is being investigated by the Jammu and Kashmir Police for his suspected involvement in the terror attack.
So, who were the attackers?
In a major breakthrough, the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday released sketches of three individuals suspected to be behind the recent terrorist attack in Pahalgam that claimed the lives of 26 civilians. Two of the suspects have been identified as Pakistani nationals. Authorities have announced a reward of ₹20 lakh for credible information leading to their capture.
According to notices issued by the Anantnag police, the suspects are: Hashim Musa alias Suleman (Pakistan), Ali Bhai alias Talha Bhai (Pakistan), and Adil Hussain Thokar, a resident of Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir. All three are believed to be operatives of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.
As is obvious, two of the attackers were Pakistani nationals!
One of the attackers was actually acting as a pony handler, ferrying the tourists back and forth.
It was quite obvious from how the attack occurred that they had local help. The ongoing investigations are backing that up.
Here are the names of those who helped these terrorists locally.
Two major eyewitnesses are helping the investigations:
Many have discussed the inability of the Indian military forces in reaching that area fast enough. Well, the terrain does not lend itself to easy movement. Yet, a drone was put into action ASAP.
Meanwhile, an unarmed Heron drone (4XUMI) was redirected from 200 km. It reached a dense Pir Panjal forest attack site within 40 minutes of the 14:50 start. Flying at 270 km/h, its heat sensors struggled with thick foliage, requiring multiple loops for visual tracking of terrorists. Ground forces arrived in 50 minutes via a 5.5 km kaccha road, adhering to ambush protocols. This rapid response, enhanced by drone surveillance ensuring sufficient troop deployment, resulted in terrorist casualties and likely prevented a greater loss. The Heron's deployment reflects the Indian Army's increased use of drones following the 2020 China-India tensions.
Attack started by 14.50, by 15.30 it was already intensively scanning the area. Understand the foliage here is thick. Even with the heat signature sensors the drone had to do many loops which it started doing immediately - to track the terrorists visually - line of sight & all pic.twitter.com/h6ynVPmab7
— Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) April 23, 2025
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This attack was not random. It was planned. Let us look at the events before it and also the motivations behind it.
To fully comprehend what happened in Pahalgam, let us go back a few days.
On April 16, standing before an audience at the Overseas Pakistani Convention in Islamabad, Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir unleashed a carefully calculated provocation. Cloaked under the veneer of history, Munir dredged up the toxic debris of the two-nation theory, declaring that "our forefathers thought we were different from Hindus in every possible aspect of life."
He went further: "Our religion is different, our customs are different, our traditions are different, our thoughts are different, our ambitions are different. That’s where the foundation of the two-nation theory was laid. We are two nations, we are not one nation."
As Kunwar Khuldune Shahid journalist from Lahore wrote in "The Independent", the two-nation theory was the basis of deeply embedded hatred for Hindus in the psyche of the Pakistanis.
So you see, this was no mere history lesson. It was a call to arms.
By reviving the anti-Hindu divisive ideology that once split a civilization, Munir was setting in motion a new phase of Pakistan’s strategic playbook: stoking anti-Hindu hatred to legitimize fresh waves of aggression against India.
His words were not about identity—they were about enmity.
Munir’s speech marked the beginning of an orchestrated campaign to reignite old animosities, mobilize extremists, and justify new assaults, both at the ideological and physical level, against India and Hindus worldwide.
To view it merely as Pakistan's history being remembered would be a mistake. It was hatred being weaponized just as it was done in the run-up to and during India's partition by the Muslim League.
Desh Kapoor
There is another incident that shocked the world.
When Indians went to demonstrate against the terror attack in front of the Pakistani consulate in London, Colonel Taimur Rahat, the Pakistan Army and Air Advisor at the consulate made insolent throat slitting action.
Watch it for yourself.
This was clearly to create outrage and a form of hate speech against the Hindus, who were specifically attacked.
Let us understand it a bit more.
This is there in the Public Order Act of 1986.
Furthermore, diplomatically, it constitutes a gross violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961), which requires diplomats to respect the laws of the host country and refrain from acts that provoke violence.
Finally, coming from an official of a country already facing global scrutiny for sponsoring terrorism, it reinforces Pakistan's image as a terror-supporting state.
On April 23, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, finalized five concrete retaliatory measures against Pakistan, instructed security forces to remain on "high alert," and pledged to ensure that the perpetrators of the attack are brought to justice.
Five decisions were taken on Wednesday, the 23rd by the CCS. Here they are sourced from the Hindustan Times
Two more decisions were taken the day after that on Thursday, April 24th.
One decision that needs some elaboration is the suspension of the Indus Water Treaty. The Indian government has decided that the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) has been put in abeyance due to Pakistan's actions of executing terror against India.
The map below shows six major rivers discussed in this section.
Indian Jal Shakti Minister, CR Patil, has said that India will ensure that "not even a drop of water from the Indus river goes to Pakistan."
The decision to pause the IWT was one among a series of measures against Pakistan in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 civilians were killed on April 22. At a meeting in New Delhi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Jal Shakti Minister Patil, Power Minister Manohar Lal were briefed by officials on the options available to the government following the suspension of the IWT. The officials, it is learnt, made a presentation, drawing attention to options that could be exercised in the short term, medium term and long term to utilise the waters of the Indus basin rivers.The government is exploring all legal and technical aspects of possible measures, including diversion of water, that can be taken in the near future. While there was no official statement after the meeting, Patil, in a post in Hindi on X, said, “The historic decision taken by the Modi government on the Indus Water Treaty is completely justified and in the national interest. We will ensure that not even a drop of water from the Indus river goes to Pakistan.” (Source: "Not a drop of water to Pakistan, says Jal Shakti Minister as Govt explores 3 options on Indus waters" / Indian Express)
Why is this important and what impact will it have on Pakistan? Let us check from the statement of Kushvinder Vohra, the former Chairman of the Central Water Commission.
Let's understand it better with the help of this graph.
Briefly looking at IWT history is important.
The approaches of the two countries to the Indus rivers were very divergent. (Source: The Yale Review of International Studies article)
While New Delhi insisted that water is no different from any other natural resource within India, Islamabad asserted that the natural flow of rivers across borders produces shared sovereignties. These diverging narratives caused the bilateral talks between Pakistan and India to fail and created a space for the international community to step in and broker an agreement.
For India, it was just a natural resource, while for Pakistan, it was part of its sovereignty!
This article by Uzair Sattar illustrates how India initially offered Pakistan control of all five rivers. By the end, Pakistan was able to extract more water from India as well as international funding for building the infrastructure over the rivers! It does beg a question - who authorized and negotiated such a one-sided treaty from India's side?
Now that the discriminatory and one-sided Indus Water Treaty has been suspended by India, and rightly so, things are going to take a very different turn.
And the Pakistani establishment has started issuing threats to India already in a typical jingoistic manner.
There are reports of Jhelum waters being released, causing the water levels to rise in Pakistan.
The Pakistani media, in its typical sensational coverage is talking of floods!
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra discusses the possible game plan of the Indian government in terms of aggressive actions against Pakistan. Remember, flooding also disrupts and damages the topsoil for two to three years, further crippling agricultural productivity.
Regardless of the outcome of this set of actions, the relationship between India and Pakistan has undergone a fundamental shift. They will never come back to where they were.
The Western liberal media is meanwhile clearly batting on behalf of Pakistan and its jihadi network, as the Western press and establishments have consistently done for over the last century.
Tulsi Gabbard set the clear rules in her X post on the attack knowing how the media will bastardize everything.
The US Foreign Affairs Committee was forced to fact-check the New York Times' Hinduphobic coverage as a Jihadi apologist media outlet.
Hey, @nytimes we fixed it for you. This was a TERRORIST ATTACK plain and simple.
— House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority (@HouseForeignGOP) April 23, 2025
Whether it’s India or Israel, when it comes to TERRORISM the NYT is removed from reality. pic.twitter.com/7PefEKMtdq
The Associated Press is no different.
One, it is not "India-controlled Kashmir," it is India's state of Jammu and Kashmir. There is an illegally occupied area by Pakistan which is India's territory. And there was no "rebellion" but a terrorism campaign by Pakistan over the last 0 years starting with the attack in 1948.
And, obviously they aren't "rebels". So let's get that cleared up!
BBC was worse!
As Sandipan Deb, a veteran senior Indian journalist, says in his X post, the BBC almost insinuates that "India killed Pakistani tourists in Pahalgam"!
The Hindu American Foundation's Suhag Shukla presented the information extremely well.
To understand the Western media and establishment perfidy through out the last 100 years, one needs to comprehend their interests and colonial designs and plans fully.
While we are discussing this terror attack and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, let us understand the significance of that piece of land in its overall geopolitical and geographic context.
This is often missed out. And that mistake of ignorance on the part of its past leaders has cost India dearly!
The entire region — every mountain, river, and valley — rightfully belongs to India.
Today, however, only the yellow-colored portion remains under Indian control.
The green territories lie under Pakistan’s occupation. The red under China's.
The credit for this loss — the dismemberment of India's crown — rests squarely with the most undeserving, myopic leader India ever knew: Jawaharlal Nehru.
Here is a copy of the original "Instrument of Accession" that the Maharaja of Kashmir signed with India. He was the monarch of the entire Jammu and Kashmir kingdom that included the entire region of which some portions are now illegally occupied by China and Pakistan.
So, in 1947-48, Pakistan seized Gilgit-Baltistan and the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir through betrayal and war. In 1962, China tore away Aksai Chin during Nehru’s disastrous misadventure, blinded by the fantasy of Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai.
Aksai Chin, in eastern Ladakh, was occupied by China through the 1950s, with the country consolidating its position there in the aftermath of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. The sparsely populated region is of strategic importance for the military — as the construction of a railway line by China shows, noted theprint.in Sep 14. Nehru had reportedly, famously dismissed Aksai Chin as a territory of no value. “It is a territory where not even a blade of grass grows, about 17,000 feet high. Ladakh is a useless uninhabitable land. Not a blade of grass grows there. We did not even know where it was”, Nehru was said to have quipped when the issue of its Chinese occupation, including with its building of a road there, was raised. (Source: "Ongoing Xinjiang-Tibet railway project via Aksai Chin set to multiply China’s military capacity" / Tibetan Review)
The tragedy did not end there. Through Article 370, Nehru himself isolated Kashmir constitutionally from the rest of India, embedding a wound within the Union.
In 1948, the Indian Army stood poised to reclaim every inch of the occupied lands.
Victory was within reach. But Nehru, in his staggering naivety, took the Kashmir issue to the United Nations — halting the army and freezing the tragedy into permanence.
Later, in 1971, Indira Gandhi had the golden opportunity to right this historic wrong in her hands. Pakistan's forces were broken. Ninety thousand prisoners of war waited at India's mercy. But even then, the green-occupied lands of Kashmir were left untouched.
Kashmir — the entire expanse of India's original territory, encompassing today's Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and China-held Aksai Chin — is far more than a disputed land. It is the strategic keystone of Asia.
Let us examine why this geography is the key to the routes and destiny of the entire continent of Asia.
Geographically, India's Jammu and Kashmir (comprising Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, and Gilgit-Baltistan) directly borders Afghanistan at the narrow Wakhan Corridor. It once offered India direct access to Central Asia.
From its northern boundary, routes opened into Persia, the Silk Road cities of Kashgar, and beyond. Kashmir was India’s bridge to the Persian courts and Central Asian markets, tying the subcontinent into the wider world.
To the north lies the Pamir Knot, where the Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan collide. Control of Kashmir meant shielding India from Central Asian invasions and providing a launchpad into the heart of Eurasia. Historically, the Tsarist Russians eyed it to reach warm waters; the British fiercely defended it to block them.
The Wakhan Corridor and the Kashmir area surrounding it has been critical to the land routes on what was known as the "Silk Road." It was in 1895 treaty between Russia and Britain that this area was carved out in a way that it created a buffer between the two empires.
The Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan’s Badakshan province is located in the Pamir mountain region, with Tajikistan to the north, Pakistan to the south and China to the east. It is a slender finger of territory (in some places less than 20km wide) jutting east as a land corridor bordering the Oxus river or Amu Darya. The borders of the Wakhan were set in an 1895 treaty between Russia and Britain, which had been wrestling over the control of Central Asia for nearly a century in what was dubbed the “Great Game”. Eventually the two agreed to use the entire Afghanistan as a buffer zone, with the Wakhan extension ensuring that the borders of the Russian empire would never touch the borders of British India. Before being sucked into the Great Game, it formed part of the ancient silk route. It buzzed with trade and travellers, of whom the most famous, Marco Polo (1254-1324) left behind his legacy in the form of an exotic species of sheep that has been named after him. Hsuan Tsang (602-664), the Chinese monk, also travelled the road as did British explorers looking for the source of the Oxus. Even today most of Wakhan has to be traversed on foot, or by using mules, donkeys, camels or yaks. (Source: "Fallout of the Great Game" / Al Jazeera)
So, Gilgit-Baltistan, which was legally part of the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir, borders Afghanistan at the tri-junction of the Wakhan Corridor, near the Pamir Knot.
That is what makes Gilgit-Baltistan so critical. And probably why the British conspired to keep that in Pakistan.
So you see, controlling access points like Kashmir was critical, because from Kashmir, it was possible to control northern routes (Wakhan, Pamirs) into India.
Today, China's encroachment through Aksai Chin and Pakistan's ceding of Gilgit-Baltistan for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor have turned Kashmir into a critical frontier for China's western strategy. These occupied regions serve as arteries for Chinese trade and military logistics, deepening their reach toward the Indian Ocean.
In essence, Kashmir, considered as the roof of Asia, is the fountainhead of rivers and the crossroads of civilizations.
In essence, it is a geographic hub, a lifeline, and a launchpad in all four directions.
Whoever controls Kashmir holds the keys to South Asia/Indian Subcontinent’s heart, Central Asia’s gates, and China's vulnerable western flanks.
So, looking closely, one can easily see that Kashmir is the silent axis on which great powers have turned — and will continue to turn.
A strange set of actions have come forth from the Indian opposition parties.
Little digging showed that she is an associate of Rahul Gandhi.
One thing is clear that India's opposition parties, specifically the Congress leadership spearheaded by Rahul Gandhi is decisively anti-India and anti-Hindu.
Some of the leaders within the party have now started speaking up against the stance by the Rahul Gandhi-led clique of Congress. Listen to MLA Lakshman Singh, who is the brother of Digvijay Singh.
Even Shashi Tharoor has a sane take on things given the gravity of the situation.
Be as it may, there is a fundamental issue with the mindset of those who have perpetrated this attack. Let's understand that.
Pakistan was created as an Islamic state led by the bigotry of Jinnah. Over the years, its polity took the turn that any fanatic society does. Towards violence against those did not share the same beliefs.
In an interesting discussion on why terror and fanaticism defines the Pakistani mindset, Javed Ghamidi, shares very insightful reasons.
He states these four basic tenets of current religious thought among Muslims.
First: Polytheism, kufar, or apostasy (someone abandons Islam) committed anywhere in the world, are all punishable by death and we have the right to implement this punishment.
The second thing they preach is that non-Muslims were born to be subjugated.
None other than Muslims have the right to govern. Every non-Muslim government is illegitimate. We shall overthrow any such government whenever we have the capacity.
The third teaching is that all the Muslims of the world should be under the rule of a single Islamic government, called the Caliphate. The independent states have no legitimacy.
The fourth doctrine is that the modern nation state is a form of kufr and there is no room in Islam for it.
Listen to him here.
Now, this is a significant statement from someone like Ghamidi who was a student of Maulana Maududi. But one needs to understand the contribution of Maududi in promoting this very ideology in the first place!
Desh Kapoor
Now we come to our final part.
There is something very interesting happening in India.
A growing sense of unity with Pakistan in the Muslim community can be seen.
For example, some Indians pasted the Pakistani flag on the road in Karnataka. It did not go well with some women who came and took them off. Something that the Pakistanis are celebrating calling it an attempt to "protect Pakistan's honor".
These courageous Indian women lifted the Pakistani flag from the ground to protect its honor from being trampled underfoot.
— ALI (@zulfimyfriend) April 26, 2025
ہم مائیں ہم بہنیں۔۔دنیا کی عزت ہم سے ہے۔
Would you like it? pic.twitter.com/cpQvWMyApH
The Congress government went ahead and detained the people who had placed those flags instead!
And, then in Jaipur, a Muslim mob attacked Hindus who protested against Pakistan.
Outside Jama Masjid, Johri Bazaar, Jaipur, a mob of Muslims attacked Hindus for carrying posters of 'Pakistan murdabad'. They said that this country will become Pakistan#PehalgamTerroristAttack pic.twitter.com/L0qWWZcJGO
— Ayush Dwivedi (@AyushDw18636185) April 26, 2025
Suddenly, in the last couple of years, a regular use of slogans like “Sar Tan Se Juda” against the Hindus, and mob riots during Hindu festivals like Durga Puja, Ram Navami, Hanuman Jayanti, Ganesh Chaturthi, or Diwali has risen.
We all know that Pakistan's intelligence has always used religious fanaticism and deep connections via the madrassas to create sleeper cells in India.
The sudden and rampant rise in mob actions and violence shows that the ISI has activated its sleeper cells.
Over the years it has weaponized illegal immigration from Bangladesh, planting sleeper cells deep inside Bengal, Assam, Kerala, and UP.
These are no refugees—they are foot soldiers of a hidden war. Shielded by NGOs, radical clerics, and treacherous politicians, they embed themselves into India's veins.
When festivals arrive, so does their real mission: digital mobilization, sudden riots, drone reconnaissance over sacred processions. Not a coincidence. It is a battlefield dressed as a reaction to festivals and celebrations.
Now if you take the hate speech by Asim Munir and the actions of Colonel Taimur Rahat, the Pakistan Army and Air Advisor at the London consulate of Pakistan, you get a sense that the Pakistani establishment is determined to instigate and humiliate India and the Hindus.
Why would it do so?
Remember, Pakistan's Central Bank has forex reserves of less than $11 Bn.
Our Correspondent
Meanwhile, its import bill is $5.2 Bn.
News Desk
With monthly imports at $5.2 billion, the reserves can barely sustain 1.8-2.0 months of peacetime trade.
There is a severe fuel crisis in Pakistan right now.
Such lines are commonplace in Punjab, Sindh and other provinces. In a video provided by Radio Free Europe, we see that clearly. The Pakistani news item from Express Tribune on April 22nd, 2025 confirms it - Fuel shortage feared in Sindh Punjab
The Oil and Gas stockpiles are no more than 7-10 days. During a war, the consumption surges by 300–500% due to Troop movement, Aircraft sorties, and Armored divisions, etc.
As per a Pakistan-watching journalist, Raja Muneeb, Pakistani refineries can only supply 58% of the countries needs. Given such a situation, the Pakistan Air Force will be out of fuel in three days!
What strikes you the most?
If you were Asim Munir, Pakistan's Chief of Army and one who has to make most of the decisions of Pakistan's future, would you deliberately provoke India when even the US is not behind it? Worse, having dismantled the large anti-India NGO framework under USAID, the US under Trump has provided fewer options for sabotage in India.
The only friends that Pakistan has are China and Turkey. Both, specifically Turkey, are going through their own issues.
The easy and lazy argument or explanation is - "because they hate the Hindus or India."
Yes, that's true.
But they love themselves more than they hate the Indians.
So why would they drive their car off the cliff while pushing the pedal all the way?!
In that case, we may be looking at an encore of what happened in Afghanistan. The Ghani government and any opposition in Afghanistan folded within 10 days of US leaving.
This may not be the only explanation, but there is no other sane argument that does not include calling Pakistani idiots.
Following in the footsteps of Army Chief General Asim Munir, DG ISPR Lt General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, and CJCSC General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, the families of Lt General Nauman Mahmood Zakaria and Lt General Inam Haider Malik have now also flown out to safer shores, settling in Australia and Canada.
They are hedging against the looming collapse of Pakistan.
This is not an isolated act. It is a pattern.
Over the years, a silent exodus has unfolded as Pakistan’s military, political, and bureaucratic elites quietly moved their families — and their fortunes — to Western countries. With green cards, Canadian PRs, Australian residencies, and British passports tucked away, the ruling class ensured that when Pakistan begins to crumble, their own bloodlines would be spared.
The generals of Pakistan know that the country, their play toy, is about to fall.
They know that the era of India’s strategic restraint is over — heck, they have deliberately orchestrated it. They are staring at its very end.
If India does not destroy it militarily, the anger and the ensuing hatred for the Pakistan Army tapped by Imran Khan have reached a high. And it won't be long before a crescendo is reached, quite like what happened with Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh.
On May 9th, 2023, the angry mob protesting Imran Khan's arrest stormed the Army Headquarters! Something that was unthinkable.
A mass of protesters pushing through the gates of the national army headquarters. An angry mob setting a senior military official’s residence aflame. Demonstrators looting a school run by a paramilitary force. Once unthinkable, the scenes of violent protest that broke out across Pakistan on Tuesday after the arrest of the former prime minister, Imran Khan, seemed to cross a line against defying the army that has rarely been breached in Pakistan’s turbulent history. Since the country’s founding 75 years ago, the military has kept a steady hold on the country’s politics and foreign policy, carrying out three successful coups and ruling the country directly for several decades. (Source: Protesters Attack Pakistan’s Military / New York Times)
The fracture within the Pakistan Army was deep. Generals at the level of Lt General, Major Generals were sacked.
Pakistan Army on June 26 announced that three officers including a Lieutenant-General were sacked and action was taken against three major generals and seven brigadiers for failing to protect key military installations during the May 9 violence following the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan. (Source: "Pakistan Army sacks 3 officers" / The Hindu)
In March 2025, the trust in Army leadership is so low that the junior officers are openly writing to the Army chief to resign.
The soldiers in the Army know. And they have been resigning and abandoning in large numbers over the last couple of years. Here is an interesting post by an ex-soldier turned journalist.
MSN shares ABP report that things have become worse as soldiers are resigning amidst rising fear in Pakistan, specifically due to Balochistan attacks.
Pakistan is about to collapse.
The Army and the elite know that a new kind of reckoning is near — one they cannot shield their nation from, but from which they can protect their own families.
The evacuation of their families is not a coincidence. It is a confession.
The ones who built the fortress of Pakistan no longer believe it will hold.
India has the pretext, the public mandate, and the strategic superiority to deliver a game-changing blow—one that reshapes the subcontinent’s borders.
When the ceasefire occurred, to many in India it seemed like deja' vu. As if India had lost on the negotiating table, what it had won on the battlefield. Was it really so? Let us analyze.
The terror attack in Pahalgam was not just an assault on India — it was a global strategic move. China, Pakistan, Qatar, and Turkey are working together to bleed India and trap America. If India falls, America has no path left to contain China.
When rage is combined with religious and ideological absolutism, avenues of freedoms vanish. Dissent is met with ruthless subjugation and every atrocity is covered up by ambivalence. Let's deep dive.
