KASHMIR NEWS OBSERVER
The unified resistance leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik Thursday urged people to make the ‘United Nations March’ programme called by the unified resistance leadership on Friday, February 10, a success.
A joint statement of the unified resistance leaders said that resistance leaders Geelani, Mirwaiz and Malik would lead marches from different places after Friday prayers toward Lal Chowk from where they will together lead the public to the United Nations Organizations (UNMOGIP) office at Sonwar where a memorandum would be presented to the UN office wherein the world body would be urged to pressurise Government of India into returning the mortal remains of martyrs, Muhammad Afzal Guru and Muhammad Maqbool Bhat, which are laying at Delhi’s Tihar Jail, back to Kashmiri nation.
Stressing that Government of India was morally and ethically responsible for returning the mortal remains of the martyrs back to the Kashmiri nation, the statement said it was worst form of violation of human and international rights and regulations that even after a person’s death was he being subjected to political vendetta.
Stating that martyrs Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Mohammad Afzal Guru were the shinning beacons of Kashmir’s ongoing resistance movement, the statement said Kashmiris hold these great sons of soil and tens and thousands of other martyrs in high reverence for their selfless sacrifices and believe that fulfilling the mission of these martyrs is the moral and collective responsibility of the nation and that they would not let the sacrifices of martyrs down.
The joint statement said the Indian judiciary has been openly displaying its bias against Kashmiris and that the institute of judiciary in India is time and again used by the Indian state to punish the people of J&K for their political views and aspirations .Joint leadship said that the latest example of this was seen when a lower court of Kolkata,awarded capital punishment to Muzaffar Ahmad Rather of Kulgam on flimsy grounds of "sedition" when there is no substantial evidence against him is a mockery of justice. The same was done in the case of Martyrs Maqbool Bhat and Afzal Guru in the name of "satisfying the collective conscience of the nation". The leadership said such judgments are in keeping with the states policy to eliminate Kashmiris and to instill fear in them and terrorize them. Each day this policy plays itself out in one way or the other.
The leadership asserted that we as Kashmiri nation will continue to fight oppression and raise our voice against the atrocities committed by Indian state at all levels until we get our just and basic right of self determination and break the shackles of slavery and oppression.