Srinagar: Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Geelani on Sunday terms PDP’s slogan of ‘Goli Nahi Boli’ as “hoax” and expressed serious cocern on subjecting youth, detained during nocturnal raids in south Kashmir to “third degree torture in police stations”.
In a statement issued here, the octogenarian leader strongly condemning the “police actions and use of excessive and unjustified force in Kareem Abad Pulwama, and “cautioned the state administration that if the arrests and harassing of youths was not stop forthwith, it will have serious repercussion and all its responsibility will be on the shoulders of PDP and the state police”.
Geelani people all over the world protest against excesses and for their judicious demands which is their democratic right but the Jammu & Kashmir is the only exception to this rule where the peaceful protesters are showered with bullets, pellets and other deadly weapons and the “so-called” civilian government instead of objecting to this overtly and covertly encourage “autocratic behaviour of the forces.”
“By chocking the peaceful means of protest and denying democratic and basic rights of the Kashmiri people, Indian authorities are negating their own claims of being the so-called biggest democracy in the world.”
Terming the role of PDP as “filthy, deceitful and sorrowful”, Geelani in his statement said: “these people collected votes on ‘Goli Nahi Boli’, ‘release of political prisoners’, ‘return of power projects’ and against RSS and their fanatical dogma and slogans but later instead betrayed the people and did absolutely contrary to all that what they had promised during their election campaign.”
He said PDP was power hungry and for that purpose can go to any extent.
Strongly condemning the use of excessive and brutal force against the people protesting against the arrest of youth in Pulwama and Handwara, Geelani said, “the police is worsening the situations in the state and will be responsible for the consequences of (its) atrocities.”
He also condemned the arrest of five youth including Baber Ahmad, Zahoor Ahmad, Raffia Abdullah, Zubair-ul-Islam, Meraj-u-Din and unabated use of teargas shelling and deadly pellet guns in Karim Abad Pulwama, which has “injured dozens of youths and students there”.
The Hurriyat chairman also condemned the ransacking and vandalising of properties, saying that police and forces during night raids even thrashed elderly inmates.
