AAC terms Oct 10 as black day in JK history
Srinagar: Awami Action Committee (AAC) on Tuesday termed October 10 as ‘another black day’ in the history of Jammu and Kashmir.
According to the statement issued here, AAC recalled that “it was on this day in 1965 when Shaheed e Millat Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq (RA) was forcibly arrested for his pro self-determination political conviction and ideology by the then authorities and kept behind bars for almost three years without any trial, partly in solitary confinements and partly at interrogation center in Kud subjected to severe torture and harassment.”
AAC said that since then the party observes October 10 as the “Prisoners’ Day “, but this year as the party chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq continues to remain under house confinement, the program stands postponed.
Paying tributes to the party founder Shaheed e Millat Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq for his commitment and steadfastness to the goal of right to self determination for the people of J&K, AAC stated that despite facing incarceration and torture late Mirwaiz didn’t budge from his stand but instead bore it with patience and conviction and continued to follow this mission even after his release in 1967 remaining committed towards representing peoples’ true aspirations till his martyrdom on May 21, 1990.
Expressing concern and anguish over the plight of Kashmiri political prisoners lodged in various jails in and outside the State as ‘a measure of revenge and repression’ against them and hailed their resilience and courage.
Meanwhile, AAC dismissed the ongoing civic body poll as ‘a farce’, stating that these elections are a military exercise that people of Kashmir reject outrightly.
AAC said “people’s slogan is simple and clear No to all Elections, Only Right to Self Determination.”
