ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT/APP): Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir
Liberation Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik has said that incarcerating
thousands of youth, especially students and resistance leaders and
activists in the name of peace and democracy has yet again
revealed the ugly face of Indian democracy in the territory.
Muhammad Yasin Malik, who is imprisoned at Central Jail
Srinagar, in a statement strongly condemned the arrests across
Kashmir, especially in south Kashmir, KMS reported.
Terming the crackdowns on youth as mockery of democracy, the
JKLF chairman said, “One fails to understand what kind of
democracy Indians and their stooges are practicing when they are
not ready to listen to any opposite voices and act only to
suppress people’s voices by killing, injuring, arresting,
intimidating and oppressing.”
Referring to the recent spree of arrests in Islamabad,
Pulwama, Kulgam, Srinagar and other areas, Yasin Malik said that
at many places like Nowhata, fathers and other relatives have been
arrested in place of their sons and relatives.
“What is the crime of parents and families of political
activists who are being harassed, arrested in place of their kith
and kin, and humiliated by police? Isn’t this moral bankruptcy?”
he asked.
The statement said that JKLF leader Muhammad Yasin Butt
along with a delegation had gone to a condolence meeting at Nigeen
on Sunday, where policemen in vehicles tried to arrest him but he
somehow managed to flee from the spot. Condemning the police
action, Malik said, “This is nothing but state-sponsored terror in
practice.”
Reiterating the call for a complete boycott of the upcoming
by-elections in Srinagar and Islamabad, Malik asked people to
remember the sacrifices of martyrs, and the injured and blinded
and the thousands who are in jails and police stations, kept away
from casting votes.