Srinagar
As per the JRL program Hurriyat (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq defied his house detention on Monday to proceed towards the Civil Secretariat to stage a peaceful sit-in against the killing of Kashmiri youth by government forces, however, he was detained outside his residence and lodged in police station Nigeen.
The spokesman said after the killing of five armed youth at Imam Sahib Shopian, five protesting youth were killed in force’s firing yesterday while dozens were seriously wounded in the South Kashmir districts. JRL had called for a peaceful march and sit in at the civil secretariat where the Darbar of the rulers was to open today to put an end to the systematic violence in Kashmir.
Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani was also stopped from proceeding towards the Secretariat while Muhammad Yasin Malik has been lodged in Central Jail.
Talking to media outside his Nigeen residence before being arrested, Mirwaiz said that Kashmir is witnessing the height of violence as all limits of atrocities have been crossed. He said People are craving for justice but all doors of justice stand closed to us. Mirwaiz said that Kashmiris especially our youth who are our future are being targeted in fact they are being hounded by the government forces who armed with unbridled powers like AFSPA, DAA bear no accountability for killing them. He said since government forces launched operation all out it has been a declaration of war against people of Kashmir and South Kashmir is bearing the biggest brunt of it where almost each day youth are being killed and critically injured and there seems to be no end to it. He said in yesterday’s killings in Shopian all those killed and injured have been hit by live ammunition above the waist in the head throat and even eyes with the intention to kill.
Mirwaiz said that every claim of the ruling dispensation especially the PDP has fallen flat. There is only one policy visible on the ground and that is “shoot to kill.”
He said in this grave situation JRL had appealed to people especially traders, lawyers, intellectuals, civil society members and others to march towards civil secretariat as it is the seat of governance and hold a peaceful sit-in there to convey to these people presiding over our killings to put an end to it. But the authoritarian regime resorted to its standard approach of caging and arresting leadership and activists.
Referring to the practice of Darbar Move Mirwaiz said that it is the “Darbaar of Killers” that has moved to Kashmir.
He said that apparently Mehbooba Mufti is the CM of Kashmir but the fact is that she and her entire team are pawns, mere rubber stamp in the hands of New Delhi working on their directions and looking helpless before the dictations of Delhi which is to kill Kashmiris one by one. He said to stay in the chair these people have pawned their conscience to their masters in New Delhi. In fact, they have killed their conscience for the chair as they are are watching like deaf and dumb spectators the dance of death witnessed in Kashmiri villages every day. Mirwaiz said recently Mehbooba Mufti brother admitted to being “partners in crime” but let them know that they are not simply partners in crime but partners in killings also.
Meanwhile, JRL has said that the protest strike against Shopian killings will continue tomorrow May 08, 2018.
