Srinagar: Following the massive crackdown by government forces in Anchar area of Soura during which residents were beaten houses damaged women and children tormented and the revered shrine of Jenab Sahab desecrated scores of youth were injured in bullet and pellet firing one among them critically ,protesting the crackdown and harassment of the people in the area. Addressing the protestors telephonically APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Muhammad Umar Farooq, who continues to be under house arrest, in his speech strongly condemned the government forces for declaring war on local residents and punishing them through brutal repression for demanding their fundamental political right. Mirwaiz said the desecration of Jenab Sahab shrine has hurt the feelings of people but in the present time we have to be ready for every kind of assaults against us.
Expressing solidarity with the affected population and the injured youth APHC Chairman said that state terrorism and trampling of human rights in every nook and corner of Kashmir has become the order of the day for the past four months but made it clear that these collective punishment against people will not deter the freedom-loving people into submission or make them give up their struggle for self determination, as they are constantly displaying.
He said for safeguarding the selfless sacrifices of tens of thousands of martyrs and for taking the blood-soaked resistance movement forward towards its goal it was imperative to remain united consistent and vigilant at all times for the adversary is both powerful and cunning and is trying its best at all levels to sabotage the people’s struggle.
Meanwhile, APHC spokesman expressed concern over the deteriorating health of senior Hurriyat leader Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, who continues to be under house arrest since the first week of June, and APHC Media Adviser Shahid-ul-Islam.In violation of humanitarian and international law they are neither allowed to seek medical counsel nor provided medical aid in detention, which shows complete disregard for any human right of prisoners and Totalitarian policy of the government toward the resistance leadership.
The spokesman also condemned the continued arbitrary detention of prominent human rights defender and EJAC President Khurram Parvez and Abdul Qayoom Wani respectively and demanded their immediate release. The spokesman also asked the government to release veteran resistance leader Syed Ali Geelani, APHC Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq from house arrest and release of all political prisoners and thousands of youth arrested during the past four months of the ongoing uprising.
Denouncing the continued ban on English daily ‘Kashmir Reader’, the APHC spokesman said it is sheer dictatorship towards the fourth pillar of democracy to ban the newspaper for reflecting the sentiments and aspirations of people and reporting facts. The government had stifled all organs of democracy and flouted all democratic norms.
The spokesperson condemned the Police and intelligence agencies for demanding ransom money from the families of the youth it had arrested, calling it shameful for the ruling class and these institutions and said such immoral practices should stop forthwith.