KL NEWS NETWORK
SRINAGAR
All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by incarcerated Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday condemned the use of brute force on people heading to participate in the one-day ‘Azadi Convention’ called by the unified resistance leadership, injuring over 100 civilians including more than two-dozen women.
The Hurriyat Conference spokesperson said that the right to peacefully protest to express our aspirations and demand for Self Determination is our fundamental right which may be crushed by force “but cannot be extinguished” from our hearts and soul.
“Indiscriminate use of pellets and tear gas shells on civilians in Mandigam, Kralagund, Trehgam, Kupwara, Bandipora, Bijbehara and Srinagar while they were peacefully heading for participation in the ‘Azadi Convention’ is disgraceful,” the spokesperson said in a statement this evening.
Hurriyat Conference (m) spokesperson said, “with each passing day the war against people whom the state considers its enemy was getting more and more ruthless relentless and inhuman. Gruesome rights violations, mass and arbitrary arrests and all forms of crackdown were getting harsher and harder. Censorship and gagging was at its peak.”
The Hurriyat Conference said that the attacks on Kashmiri students as seen in Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh is on an all-time high as the activists and supporters of right wing groups whose support base is considerably widening are harassing and humiliating them which is a cause of serious concern.
At Global College of Law in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh Kashmiri students were not only harnessed but also looted and robbed by the right wing activists, the spokesperson said.
“The authorities of these institutes and the respective state governments have a moral responsibility to ensure safety of Kashmiri students studying there if they have been given admission,” the spokesperson added.
