India victimising Kashmiris to suppress their struggle: Mirwaiz

SRINAGAR, April 15: In occupied Kashmir, APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has said that India is subjecting the Kashmiris to brutality and repression under a well-devised policy to suppress their ongoing struggle for securing the right to self-determination.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who is under house arrest in Srinagar, in a statement said, “After killing four innocent civilians in Handwara and Kupwara, the Indian forces are terrorizing people through use of brutal force and imposition of curfew. Most of the resistance leaders are confined to their homes. Practically, the entire Valley has been converted into a jail.”
The Mirwaiz said that the present puppet regime had squeezed the political space of Hurriyet leadership. “We are not being allowed to mourn the death of our innocents killed by Indian forces. We are not even allowed to hold meetings and seminars. The PDP’s slogans of battle of ideas has turned hollow as Hurriyet activists are being detained and not allowed to meet people,” he added.
Meanwhile, forceful demonstrations rocked the territory, Friday, over the recent killing of four innocent civilians in the unprovoked firing of Indian Army personnel on peaceful protesters in Kupwara district. Call for the demonstrations was given by the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali Geelani, and Hurriyet leaders, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik. Defying curfew and other restrictions, people took to the streets in Srinagar, Badgam, Handwara, Kupwara, Ganderbal, Kangan, Islamabad, Sopore, Baramulla, Shopian, Bandipora, Kulgam and other areas and raised high-pitched pro-freedom and anti-India slogans. Indian troops and police personnel fired pallets and teargas shell to break up the demonstrations at different places injuring many people.-KMS