Use of brute force on mourners in Srinagar condemned

Srinagar, December 16 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani and senior APHC leader, Shabbir Ahmed Shah have strongly condemned the imposition of curfew and use of brute force against mourners in Srinagar by the occupation authorities.

Syed Ali Gilani in a statement in Srinagar termed the authorities’ actions as state terrorism and open interference in religious affairs of the people. He pointed out that the puppet administration was dealing every matter through the barrel of gun and the unabated state terrorism had made the common man’s life miserable.

The veteran Hurriyet leader took strong exception to Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Ashok Khajuria’s recent statement wherein he had stated that India would never grant Azadi to Kashmir even if four more generations of Kashmiri Muslims end up with the demand. Syed Ali Gilani said that Hindu fascist and communal forces in tandem with the Indian Army were conspiring to commit widespread extermination of Muslims in the territory.

He maintained that the army was under the influence of rightwing parties in India and its top officers were working to change the demography of the territory by carrying out genocide of Muslims on the pattern of 1947.

On the other hand, denouncing the imposition of curfew and use of force on mourners, senior APHC leader, Shabbir Ahmad Shah termed it sheer interference in the religious affairs of people and denial of fundamental right to perform the religious rituals.

“The repressive steps being taken by the authorities to suppress the peoples’ religious and political feelings in Valley have belied their all claims of democracy,” he said in a statement.

Source: Kashmir Media Service (KMS).
Link: http://www.kmsnews.org/news/use-brute-force-mourners-srinagar-condemned.