Srinagar: In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops, in their continued acts of state terrorism, martyred fifteen Kashmiris including a woman during the last month of February.
According to the data issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, today, three of the martyrs were killed in a fake encounter. The killings rendered one woman widowed and two children orphaned. During the period, two hundred eighty seven people were injured when Indian troops and police personnel resorted to brute force and fired bullets, pellets and teargas shells on peaceful protesters. Two hundred thirteen people including Hurriyet activists and youth were arrested. The troops damaged fifty one houses during the month.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali Gilani and other Hurriyet leaders in their statements paid glowing tributes to the martyrs of Zakura and Batamaloo massacres on their 27th martyrdom anniversary, today. They demanded impartial proceedings under War Crimes Tribunal of the United Nations against the Indian troops involved in the mass killings. On this day in 1990, the trigger-happy Indian forces’ personnel butchered more than 50 innocent people during protests in Zakura and Batamaloo areas of Srinagar. Syed Ali Gilani condemned the continued detention and shifting of Hurriyet leader, Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, from Sopore police station to Baramulla sub jail.
The Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Aasiya Andrabi, in a statement denounced the unabated arrest spree, search operations and nocturnal raids in the territory particularly in Palhallan, Kulgam and Pulwama areas. She said that India had converted the entire occupied Kashmir into a battleground.
On the other hand, Communist Party of India-Marxist leader, Sitaram Yechury, in a statement in New Delhi flayed the Narendra Modi government and the Sangh Parivar over the death and rape threats to peace activist and Delhi University student, Gurmehar Kaur. She champions peace between Pakistan and India and opposes anti-peace views of Hindu extremist organization, Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad.
In a latest development, Haryana’s Sports Minister, Anil Vij, in a media interview said that those supporting Gurmehar Kaur were pro-Pakistan and should be thrown out of India.
