SRINAGAR: The Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has said that the incident at Gund, Ganderbal where policemen were beaten mercilessly by the Army men once again beings to fore the dangerous and serious situation in Kashmir where even those who are the state’s own agencies and at the forefront of following the state’s agenda of repression, are not spared because they are seen as Kashmiris and hence liable to be beaten killed tortured maimed blinded or whatever they deem fit.
Hurriyat (M) spokesman said that since the government of the state has remained of no consequence for the people of Kashmir and the ruling regime especially the PDP has completely lost any faith that people had in it and become extremely weak and vulnerable; to stay in power it has totally surrendered before the policy of oppression and repression pursued by New Delhi and its coalition partner in J&K against the people of Kashmir.
Whereas New Delhi sees oppression and killing of Kashmiris as the way to Kashmir resolution, it has given unbridled power to the Army to raise its ‘morale’ and an absolute freedom from accountability through draconian laws like AFSPA under which they enjoy ultimate impunity to shoot kill, beat torture or harass any one they wish to.
The spokesman said that so far not a single soldier has been even brought before the Court of Law, let alone punishing him. Probes ordered time and again and the commissions probing serious cases of human rights violations, are just eyewash to ensure no solider is convicted.
The spokesman said Kashmir is world’s highest militarized zone where a common man is completely at mercy of forces. The huge deployment of forces at each nook and corner of valley is the prime reason for the rising graph of human rights violations.
The spokesman urged the world forums, international bodies on rights violations, to take serious note of every day raids on youth’s homes, caging resistance leadership and instilling fear among the local populace, so that a pressure is built on New Delhi to end its growing war crimes in Kashmir.
