Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday 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.
“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 amalgam said in a statement issued here. “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,” it said.
The Hurriyat Conference said that Kashmir’s pro-freedom leadership was not even allowed to register condemnation and protest against the brutal killings of civilians or visit the families to express condolences and share their grief. “Instead they are 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 in Khudwani area of Kulgam district as “target killing” of Kashmiris, barely a week after Shopian massacre where 19 people were killed. The Hurriyat Conference said the 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 was nothing short of “state terrorism and repression at its worst.”
Hurriyat Conference 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. “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.”, it said, adding, “But neither will give in and instead GOI will one day have to give up its obstinacy and resolve the issue.”
The Hurriyat Conference (M) 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.
