Police foil separatist groups march
Srinagar: Police on Saturday detained scores of activists of separatist groups after they carried out a protest march against human rights violation in Kashmir.As soon as the Zuhar (afternoon) prayers ended in the Masjid, the activists of all the factions of Hurriyat including some leaders assembled outside the Koker Bazar Masjid and staged protest. They were chanting slogans against the government and were demanding ‘freedom’.
Talking to reporters, JKLF’s Vice Chairman, Advocate Bashir Ahmad Butt said that as the world is observing International Human Rights day, they have decided to stage protest against the ‘gross human rights violation’ in Kashmir.
He said that the people who are raising voices against such atrocities are being booked under black laws. “We want to convey a message to the world community that the forces here have unleashed terror and are being committing atrocities on the people. In the current uprising here, a large number of people were brutally killed while several thousands were maimed and blinded as well,” he said.
Butt said that the UN must take cognizance of such human rights violations in Kashmir and must resolve the long pending Kashmir issue.
“We have been fighting against the illegal occupation of India and the fight will continue till it reaches to the logical conclusion,” he said.
Meanwhile, the protesters tried to march towards UN office at Sonwar.
However, police swung into action and detained scores of leaders and activists.
They were later lodged at Kothi Bagh Police Station Terming the prevention of peaceful protest marches even on the ‘International Human Rights Day’ as the biggest human rights violation, an APHC spokesman said while the entire world was observing the day in respect of human rights, the same rights were being torn to shreds even on this day in Kashmir.The joint resistance leadership on Saturday said that the government sabotaged their move to present a memorandum at the United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) at Sonwar in Srinagar.”On the ‘International Human Rights Day’, the ‘United Nations March’ call given by the unified resistance leadership Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik who had to present a memorandum was once again sabotaged by the government with its dictatorial tactics, by continuing to keep the resistance leadership under house arrest and using excessive force on peaceful marches that were heading toward the UN Office,” said a statement issued by the leadership today.Terming the prevention of peaceful protest marches even on the ‘International Human Rights Day’ as the biggest human rights violation, an APHC spokesman said while the entire world was observing the day in respect of human rights, the same rights were being torn to shreds even on this day in Kashmir.
The APHC spokesman urged the international rights bodies to take strong note of the killings and injuries, arrests and house arrests, raids and crackdowns, beating up of people and ransacking of houses in Kashmir and come to the rescue of unarmed Kashmiris who were at the receiving end of “naked aggression and gross human rights violations perpetuated by the government forces.”
