Srinagar: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M), on Wednesday termed all party meeting called by chief minister Mehbooba Mufti as “farce”.
Mirwaiz who is under house arrest said that the all-pro India Parties Meeting is aimed to mislead people into believing that they are serious or can do something to bring people out of the current “oppressive” state.
“The fact remains that it is these very parties and people who are responsible for our misery and massacres and the extreme repressive situation that we are facing for the past seventy years in general and thirty years in particular,” he said, adding, “Our suffering is an outcome of the draconian laws and legislation put in place here by New Delhi with the full cooperation and support of these pro-India parties.”
Over the years, he said, these parties kept yielding our sovereignty and compromising on J&K’s status before New Delhi for the sake of chair. “Today Kashmir is a colony of India with over seven lakh Indian troops stationed here ensuring forcible control through military might, resulting in severe repression on people.”
And these parties, he said, willingly preside over that “repression for the sake of chair that has no power as all power rests with New Delhi, want us to believe that their meetings will bring us relief!”
Mirwaiz said when all space for the expression of dissent was choked and gagged, youth in Kashmir feel forced to turn to violent means. “When these young boys are killed by the forces and police as in Shopian their bosses condone and congratulate the forces. And when young civilians are killed, there is silence, not even an FIR is filed anywhere for killing of seven innocent youth which includes the one who was mowed to death by an armoured vehicle.”
Mirwaiz questioned as to who is responsible and accountable for spilling of their blood?
He said if these parties are really serious and mean business then all the black laws should be revoked forthwith and the force’s personnel responsible for the massacre of innocent youth should be brought to justice.
Mirwaiz said that the situation in Kashmir was so fragile and worrisome that in just two months forces have killed 32 civilians mostly youth while scores have been blinded and maimed by the deadly pellets and pava shells.
He said for the resistance camp, all means of peaceful protests and political space has been closed. Mirwaiz asked those in chair that how long will they continue to follow the diktats of New Delhi and preside over the massacres of Kashmiris?
