Srinagar
Recalling the “Sopore massacre” of January 6, 1993, Hurriyat (g) Conference chairman, Syed Ali Geelani said that nation has witnessed the violence for the last several decades and anybody with a human heart can ever forget such brutality.
Remembering ill-fated day of January 1993, pro-freedom leader said that it was a bone-chilling cold of a harsh winter, when the preachers of non showered bullets all around, killing whosoever came their way, ruthlessly. Inhuman forces shuttered down the nearby shops and burnt alive all the shopkeepers inside their shops, the spokesman in a statement said.
Hurriyat chairman said that humanity may have never witnessed such a heinous crime when a toddler snatched from the lap of his mother was thrown into the flames and when the hapless mother protested, she too was silenced forever by the bullets. The whole town was in rubble, houses and shops were turned into ashes and horror stories and ghastly tales were all around which shiver a person down his spine. Forces also fired upon and burned a bus en-route to Bandipora, killing and burning alive all its passengers.
Syed Ali Geelani said that this dance of death, with 55 innocent killings, 120 houses and 350 shops gutted, was a unique New Year gift from the “masters” of our traitors
Hurriyat Chairman reiterated the JRL call for complete shutdown in north Kashmir’s Sopore town on January 6 to mark the anniversary of this “massacre” and appealed people to participate in the collective Fateh Khwani of the victims
Meanwhile, Chairman Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, Paying glorious tributes to the “martyrs” of Sopore massacre on January 6, 1993, He said, that the sacrifices were a priceless asset with the Kashmiri nation. He said, the conscious and great nations never forget them and they continue their struggle.T he sacrifices of Kashmiris would be protected at all costs till Kashmiri struggle would reach its logical conclusion.
He said (Sehrai) even after 26 years down the line the “perpetrators” still enjoying the impunity and roaming free which is Humanitarian Tragedy in itself. He said the situation in Kashmir is rapidly deteriorating and war crimes and crimes against humanity and it has been characterized by complete impunity. There is no domestic mechanism capable of or willing to investigate, prosecute and convict perpetrators, of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Neither is there a willingness to put in place such a mechanism.
