Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership has called for a complete shutdown on Monday in Kashmir against unabated civilian killings. Earlier the JRL had called the strike on Tuesday.
The JRL comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik called for the shutdown as two more civilians died today. While one of them were killed in forces’ action on protesters near the site of a gunfight in Kulgam, Anantnag youth succumbed at SKIMS Soura.
In a joint statement, the JRL said operation all out was restarted by forces and CASO in South Kashmir villages resulting in harassment of people of all ages and when people resist to forces action they are showered with pellets and bullets with a sole aim of killing them.JRL said that residential houses are being blasted and
The leadership said that they can’t act as mute spectators over the brutal killings of unarmed protesters as since Eid ul Fitr four innocent people including the father of two minor siblings were killed by the “trigger-happy forces.” The four civilians killed in forces firing since June 16 include Aijaz Ahmed Bhat of Akhiran, Nowpora, elderly Muhammad Yousuf Rather of Srigufwara, Shahid Nazir of Sirhama who was fired at his head, and the latest Yawar Nazir of Gassipora Qaimoh who was martyred today in indiscriminate firing. JRL said that more than 50 people were also left seriously injured, many of them with bullets and lethal pellet injuries and many houses have been blasted and raised to the ground.
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