SrinagarJoint Resistance Leadership (JRL) Wednesday hailed the people of Kashmir for showing their deep resentment and unequivocal condemnation against the killing of Amarnath yatris and rushing to provide aid and assistance to the injured in hospitals.
Despite being subjected to severe state brutalization and unprecedented repression for decades and hatred promoted against them through Indian electronic media, the people of Kashmir have retained their humanitarian values and their belief in the great Kashmir ethos is intact. The protests over this ghastly act and the participation of all segments of society in them is heartening to see.
JRL, comprising of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik said, It was highly commendable that despite being subjected to severe state brutalization and unprecedented repression for decades and hatred promoted against them through Indian electronic media, the people of Kashmir have retained their humanitarian values and their belief in the great Kashmir ethos is intact. The protests over this ghastly act and the participation of all segments of society in them is heartening to see.
JRL said, this should serve as an eye opener to those who encourage polarization as a political tool and leave no stone unturned to demonize a people through media and crush them by use of force or their just political aspirations that have a historical and democratic bases.
Expressing deep sorrow at the martyrdom of three young Kashmiri boys Auqib Gul of Goripora, Tafazul Islam of Narbal and Sajad Ahmed Gilkar of Nowhatta at the hands of the Indian forces in Budgam, the leadership paid glowing tributes to them.
The leadership said that, it greatly pains us that our youth, instead of pursuing a future for themselves, are forced to take up arms to resist occupation and its consequent oppression upon the people of Kashmir. Many among the youth are those whom constant persecution and witch hunt by the state through slapping of PSAs and FIRs by the police and other state agencies pushes them to the wall.
JRL said that all bloodshed on all sides is uncalled for unfortunate and painful and should stop and that can happen only when the reality of Kashmir is accepted and ways and means of resolving the dispute addressed by the Indian State.
Referring to the remarks made by an Indian minister at a press briefing in Srinagar today JRL said that resorting to nationalistic rhetoric, denial of ground realities and degrading the resistance leadership will not help in changing the grave situation in Kashmir for better.
The leadership said that if the GOI is seriously interested in the welfare of the youth of Kashmir and wants peace in the region then it has to engage with their political sentiment and aspirations and give them the basic right to decide their future dispensation as guaranteed by the first Prime Minister of India and the international Community.
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