| Listen to MC Kash’s song “I Protest (Remembrance)”: |
They say when you run from darkness
All you seek is light
But when the blood spills over
You’ll stand and fight
Threads of deceit
Woven around a word of plebiscite
By treacherous puppet politicians
Who have no soul inside
My paradise is burning
With troops left loose with ammo
Who murder and rape
Then hide behind a political shadow
Like a casino
Human life is thrown like a dice
I’ll summarize atrocities
Till the resurrection of Christ
Can you hear the screams
Now see the revolution
Their bullets, our stones
Don’t talk restitution
‘Cuz the only solution
Is the resolution of freedom
Even Khusrow will go back
And doubt his untimely wisdom
These killings ain’t random
It’s an organized genocide
Sponsored media
Who hide this homicide
No more injustice
We won’t go down
When we bleed
Alive in the struggle
Even the graves will speak
I protest
Against the things you’ve done
I protest
For a mother who lost her son
I protest
I’ll throw stones and never run
I protest
Until my freedom has come
I protest
For my brother who’s dead
I protest
Against the bullet in his head
I protest
I’ll throw stones and never run
I protest
Until my freedom has come
MC Kash is a rapper whose hometown is Srinagar, Kashmir. Click here to listen to more songs by MC Kash. See, also, Sanjay Kak, “What Are Kashmir’s Stone Pelters Saying to Us?” (Economic & Political Weekly, 11 September 2010).
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