JRL calls for Kulgam march today, shutdown on Oct 27
Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik on Tuesday issued a fresh protest programme against the Kulgam killings and appealed people to observe complete shutdown on October 27.
JRL in a statement issued here said that “on October 24 (Wednesday) people, especially those living in south Kashmir districts will march towards village Laroo in Kulgam district to express sympathy and the solidarity with the families who lost their loved ones in the Kulgam massacre.”
“The march to Kulgam is to convey to the people of Laroo that people of entire Kashmir are with them and share their grief and pain and that they are not alone against the ultimate repression unleashed to crush the peoples’ demand for the right to self-determination,” JRL said.
JRL said that on October 26 (Friday), Imams of all shrines, masjids and Imam Baras across Kashmir will raise their voice against the killing of innocent people in Kulgam and also stage peaceful protests after Friday prayers against the bloodshed in Kulgam.
The trio also urged Imams to lead special prayers for all martyrs of Kashmir, especially those killed recently at Kulgam.
“On October 27 (Saturday) the black day of Kashmir history, will be observed by all as “Occupation Day” as it was on this day in 1947, that Indian troops landed in Kashmir to occupy us and our land and since then lakhs of forces continue to occupy us and our land illegally,” JRL said.
“A complete protest strike will be observed on that day. JRL appeals to Kashmir Diaspora on both sides of ceasefire line to observe the day in solidarity with their Kashmiri brethren and in whatever country they are to educate the people through posters banners, placards about the Kashmir dispute and grave human rights abuses here,” the trio added.
Since 1990 one sided war, multiple massacres took place in Kashmir: Mirwaiz
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was Tuesday detained by police when he broke the cordon around his house to lead the march towards Lal Chowk as per JRL program to protest the Kulgam killings, a spokesman said.
A large contingent of police posted outside his house and in the lanes leading to it were barricaded preventing Hurriyat activists and media persons from reaching his house to join in the march, a spokesman said in a statement issued here.
Before his arrest, Mirwaiz said that “Kashmir has been turned into a slaughter house where Kashmiri’s are killed with impunity, as part of a state policy of crushing us to contain our struggle for self-determination and continue our subjugation.”
“Besides, severe repression on Kashmiri’s sells well in Indian electoral market for the rulers,” he said, adding that “a nation which kills small children and pregnant women has lost all sense of humanity and morality and to ask them for probes or action against perpetrators of killings is travesty of justice and humiliating the victims.”
Mirwaiz said that since 1990 itself New Delhi declared a War against Kashmiris and since then in this one sided war multiple massacres have taken place across length and breadth of the valley, the latest being at Kulgam.
He said to the killers age, gender healthy or ill does not matter, as children, women, old young all have been killed by forces be it child Uzair Mushtaq minor Mohammad Mukeem or youth Javed Lone.
“To the forces all Kashmiri’s are their target. To control the territory of J&K all are in their range,” he said.
Mirwaiz said “going by the totalitarian outlook of New Delhi and its contempt for human rights of Kashmiri’s exhibited in the methods being employed to kill civilians and destroy homes and properties including missiles and heavy machine guns, that day may not be far when we may be bombed out.”
He in a statement said “while the unflinching belief of people in their struggle is the greatest source of strength for us all, one other thing that can unnerve even a great adversity is the strength in unity. So all of us have to unite from one end of the spectrum to the other, like we did on the 35A assault and launch a joint agitation against the continuous barbaric killings and massacres of our youth under the garb of CASO.”
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