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<\/a><\/p>\nBBC has never been a friend of India . It tried its best to paint Indians \u00a0as a ultra backward people till India emerged as an economic power house and went past Britain in the size of its economy . First India’s mastery of software and subsequently its recent space achievements deprived BBC of its chance to paint India as a land of tigers and snake charmers .<\/p>\n
But it crossed its own limits of biased reporting by posting a Pakistan based BBC \/Urdu video footage of an agitation in POK as an agitation in Indian Kashmir and making wild comments about firing and injuries . To add insult to injury it called Indian Kashmir as Indian occupied Kashmir in aftermath of repeal of article 370 in J&K .<\/p>\n
This enraged the Indian community and Shekhar Kapoor the film maker who made a move on queen Elizabeth-1\u00a0, asked why BBC does not refer to Ireland as British occupied Ireland . It got immediate support of enraged Indian community on net .\u00a0It is important to understand why Shekhar Kapoor is right about a protestant Britain forcefully occupying the Catholic Ireland which too fought British occupation for a long time till it reached an agreement with\u00a0Tony Blair \u00a0government in\u00a01998 in an agreement known as Belafst \/ Good Friday agreement . Catholic Irish people resisted Protestant British till in 1536 Henry – 8 decided to conquer Ireland \u00a0.But English could not convert Irish people to catholics inspite of hundreds of years of its rule over Ireland . The armed resistance continued in varying degree . In late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Britain tried settling Protestants Britishers in Ireland and launched land confiscation and other oppressive measures against Irish people .\u00a017th \u00a0century was the most brutal period till Oliver Cromewel recaptured Ireland again in 1651\u00a0. Ireland again revolted in 1798 but it was suppressed with a heavy hand .In 1800 Ireland’s parliament was abolished\u00a0.<\/p>\n
Ireland’s population dropped from 8 million to 4.4 million due to great famine of 1845-49. Like Indian Zamindars , 10000 British families owned the land and Irish people were tenants cultivating land .In 1898 local government ( Ireland ) Act\u00a0was passed . By 1912 as first world war erupted a war for independence started again in Ireland . In 1919 Irish Parliament was reconstituted . In 1922 22 counties separted and formed a new country Northern Ireland which renamed itself as Ireland and proclaimed a Republic in 1949. From 1972 to 1999 northern Ireland was under a direct rule of British Cabinet through a nominated minister. Irish Repulican Army resisted the British rule often by violent methods .<\/p>\n
Belfast \u00a0agreement on 10 th April 1998 ended violence by a power sharing agreement . But this too failed . in 2007 Provisional Irish Army was finally disarmed and peace returned to the troubled region\u00a0\u00a0.<\/p>\n
So Shekhar Kapoor was right in reminding the BBC to call British occupied Ireland . It is hoped that it will see its folly before referring to Indian Kashmir as Indian Occupied Kashmir . BBC should now come to terms with Indian independence .<\/p>\n
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Shekhar Kapoor Vs Biased BBC Coverage of Kashmir : How Protestant Britain Occupied Catholic Ireland… more