Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) on Monday termed as ‘sugar coated’ the use of terms like ‘dialogue’, ‘reconciliation’ and ‘mutual trust building among stakeholders’ for the resolution of Kashmir issue by ruling PDP as “sugar coated” even as it termed continued house arrest of amalgam’s chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq “policy of political revenge and harassment.”
In a statement, a spokesman termed the government’s decision to keep Mirwaiz under house arrest as “shameful and dictatorial”.
“The decision of the ruling regime of caging the Mirwaiz for long periods of time now and then, is the acceptance of their defeat of facing him on a political turf and hence they are resorting to illegal means of force and military might against him,” the spokesman said.
He said the frequent house detention of Mirwaiz was also aimed at building pressure on him to stop from representing the aspirations of the people of Kashmir and raising his voice against “oppression perpetuated upon them.”
He said that it’s the height of “hypocrisy” that on one hand the “subservient partner of the authoritarian ruling regime, the PDP sermonises and uses sugar coated terms of “dialogue” “reconciliation” and “mutual trust building among stakeholders” for the resolution of Kashmir dispute, “on the other hand it deals with an iron fist, caging, banning barring and gagging every voice of dissent and disagreement, unleashing unprecedented oppression in the form of unabated human rights violations, killings of innocents, maiming and blinding civilians incarceration torture and all kinds of atrocities to inflict pain to the people of Kashmir.”
While such a situation festers on ground and resistance leadership continues to remain caged in their own homes or jails, he said, a drama was being enacted to create confusion and to divert the attention from the deteriorating ground situation in Kashmir by talking about such looking good things like dialogue, which in reality have lost their meaning for the people.
He said people of Kashmir are wise enough to see through these “gimmicks and won’t allow any conspiracy” aimed at changing the basic discourse of Kashmir dispute to succeed .
