Use of brute force on students in IOK condemned
ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT ONLINE):In occupied Kashmir, Hurriyat leaders and organizations have strongly condemned the use of brute force on university and college students who were protesting against the killing of people by the Indian troops and described it as the worst kind of state terrorism.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement in Srinagar said that post the death dance by the Indian forces in Shopian, Islamabad and other areas the resistance leadership was barred from visiting the bereaved families and sharing their grief.
The leaders said that people of Kashmir were offering unprecedented sacrifices on all fronts whereas the puppet rulers had thrown all principles of democracy and humanity to the winds and were busy ruthlessly crushing the Kashmiris’ struggle for securing their right to self-determination. They said that every section of society including students were up in revolt to India’s forcible occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. They said that brutal tactics by New Delhi to suppress the ongoing freedom movement would never succeed.
The Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Aasiya Andrabi, in her statement in Srinagar condemned the use of force on the students who were protesting against the killing of innocent people by the Indian troops.
Kashmir Tehreek-e-Khawateen Chairperson, Zamruda Habib, in a statement in Srinagar denounced the force used against the students and termed it barbaric inhuman and undemocratic. She said, “The innocent killings in Kashmir are aimed at suppressing our freedom struggle. Kashmir is under occupation and the students have the every right to raise voice against it.”
Hurriyat leaders, Mushtaq-ul-Islam and Imtiyaz Ahmad Reshi, in their statement in Srinagar deplored that excessive force and military might was used against the peaceful and unarmed protesters. They urged the international human rights organisatiosn to take notice of the Indian state terrorism in the occupied territory.