Srinagar, April 12 (KNO) : All Parties Hurriyat Conference in a statement said that while the Jammu Bar association with the active support of members of Indian National Congress and Panthers Party were enforcing Bandh and taking out rallies in favour of the rapists and murderers of minor Asifa, the state administration and the police were acting like mute spectators where as the police and forces take no time to empty the cartridges of its guns and pellets while dealing with the peaceful protestors on Kashmir streets.
The Hurriyat said that the shameful duplicity of PDP-BJP regime has once come to fore once again as they allowed the goons and fanatics a free run in Jammu region.
The Hurriyat said that Kashmir’s pro-freedom leadership is not even allowed to register their condemnation and protest against the brutal killings of civilians or visit the families to express condolences and share their grief but is instead put behind the bars or placed under illegal house detention. It termed the killing of four civilians Sharjeel Ahmad Sheikh, Bilal Ahmad Tantray, Faisal Elahi and Ajaz Ahmad Palla including two minors in Khudwani area of Kulgam district as target killing of Kashmiri’s barely a week after Shopian massacre where 19 people were killed.
The Hurriyat said government feels no remorse in blowing up the residential structures, torching shops and showering bullets and pellets at peaceful protestors as more than 75 people were seriously injured during protests at Khudwani area on Wednesday alone which is nothing short of of state terrorism and repression at its worst. APHC said that Kashmiri people especially the young lot is being killed as part of genocide by the forces to wipe us out who are laced with the unbridled powers under AFSPA and it seems that there is no end to the killings as Delhi wants to continue with its iron-first policy in Kashmir to force people and the pro-freedom leadership into a submission. But neither will give in and instead GOI will one day have to give up its obstinacy and resolve the issue.
APHC strongly condemned the house detention of its chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq since Sunday and Syed Ali Geelani and lodging Muhammad Yasin Malik in Central jail time and again as a frustration and myopic vision of the ruling regime stating that they can’t face the resistance leadership on ground. The spokesman also condemned the detention of senior APHC leader Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, Hilal Ahmed War and turning of entire South Kashmir and downtown into a military fortress by imposing strict curbs amid heavy deployment of forces everywhere.
The spokesman denounced the thrashing of peaceful protestors at Srigufwara in South Kashmir terming it as the ultimate highhandedness of the forces. The spokesman said that on the call of Joint Resistance Leadership, a peaceful protest was held at Eidgah area of downtown despite curbs. The protest was taken out by the APHC leaders and activists that include Muhammad Yousuf Bhat, Sahil Ahmed War, Farooq Ahmed, Bashir Ahmed Pandit, and others, against the civilian killings at Khudwani in Kulgam.
The protestors made it clear that using military might and resorting to repressive measures that includes killing, maiming and thrashing people, won’t deter the resolve of people of Kashmir and instead they would intensify their efforts to seek the final settlement of Kashmir issue.