Srinagar: Activists of Hurriyat Conference G Wednesday took to streets after Police foiled the seminar that had been organized to remember the boys who died during direct fire on unarmed protesters by police and paramilitary between 2008 and 2010.
Geelani, however, led a group of his activists who broke the cordon and staged a demonstration against police curbs. Significantly Shabir Ahmad Shah and Nayeem Ahmad Khan, who have broken away from Mirwaiz-led Hurriyat and formed their own faction, also escorted Geelani as he led the protest march against the continued security restrictions imposed on the activities of Hurriyat G. The amalgam has confirmed that it was considering proposals of unity from various ‘likeminded’ groups.
Eyewitnesses said a large contingent of police and paramilitary CRPF blocked all roads and lanes leading to the house of Hurriyat Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani at Hyderpora here where the seminar- The Trampled Unbloomed Buds of 2010 was scheduled. Geelani was also supposed to release a book titled Blood Bath during the daylong seminar. Police disallowed the conglomerates office bearers and even journalists from entering Geelanis residence on Wednesday morning.
Newsgathering agency CNS quoted an unnamed senior police official saying that seminar was a threat to peace as it would incite the public sentiments.
Later Syed Ali Geelani along with his activists broke the security cordon and marched towards Airport road where Geelani addressed the people. Shabir Ahmad Shah and Nayeem Ahmad Khan from a parallel faction of Hurriyat Conference also joined Geelani in his demonstration against the state excesses. The peaceful sit-in continued for half an hour after which Geelani went inside the Hurriyat headqarter located at Hyderpora. “We are considering proposals for a broad-based unity from various separatist groups. We are in touch with our like minded colleague who are right now heading different factions,” CNS quoted Geelani’s spokesman Ayaz Akbar as saying.
While addressing the gathering Geelani condemned the police action and said that such tactics will always prove unproductive for the government. He said that Kashmiri people are fighting for a sacred cause while the height of repression is that, peaceful seminars inside the rooms are disallowed.
He termed the restrictions as a worst example of “state terrorism” and said by foiling peaceful remembrance of those killed during 2008-2010 were actually encouraging and shielding the killers. Geelani lashed out at Congress, PDP and National Conference, terming all of them first rate collaborators.
Geelani demanded that an independent and transparent probe should be ordered so that the killers of more than hundred youth in 2010 should be exposed and punished. He later distributed copies of the Holy Quran among the kin of those killed in Police action.
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