Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) on Saturday termed as “extremely sad” on part of the government to stop people and leadership from paying homage to the martyrs of 13July 1931 by imposition of curfew-like restrictions in and around the Martyrs Graveyard at Khwaja Naqshband Sahib (RA) here.
The chairman of the amalgam Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was also placed under house arrest, a spokesman of the Hurriyat Conference said.
A rally at the graveyard to pay homage to the martyrs and offer Fateh to them was a democratic right of people and applying curbs on it is totally authoritarian, the spokesman said.
Hurriyat Conference said that martyrs of 13 July 1931 laid down their life for a great cause of standing high against the then autocratic Dogra rule. “By offering priceless sacrifice, these great martyrs laid the foundation for the struggle of rights and justice for people of Kashmir.”
Hurriyat Conference said even after the passage of seven decades, there is no let up in the “atrocities and rights violations”. “Youth continue to languish in various prisons in and outside the State for their no crime. Valley has been converted into a military fortress while under the impunity of unbridled powers of black laws, all political and religious rights of people are compromised and even a peaceful march becomes a threat to peace in Kashmir.”
