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| Bandh, Bandh, Bandh: Kashmiris fed up with the bandh culture | | | RUSTAM
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 21: Kashmiri separatists again ordered the Kashmiri Muslims to observe a "complete bandh" across the Valley on Monday and Tuesday to "register protest against the killing of two boys by men in uniform." "People should strongly protest the ongoing killing of (Kashmiri boys) by the men in uniform" to tell the "international community that they would not accept the Indian oppression anymore," Syed Ali Shah Geelani said on Sunday while addressing people at Silkote, Kupwara district. "It is nothing but a state-sponsored terrorism. The situation in Kashmir has turned explosive. Troops have been given shoot at sight directives by the government. We can't afford to be mute spectators over the ongoing killings. If people would not lodge their protest now, the innocent killings won't end", he also told the gathering.
How could the APHC (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq lag behind? He also used the same terminology, the same phrases and almost the same language while ordering the helpless Kashmiri Muslims to observe a complete bandh for the same reason: Killing of Kashmiri boys by "men in uniform (police and troops)." "The shutdown has been called to express our collective anguish over the unabated killings of innocent civilians by forces…The killing of Kashmiris was a 'comprehensive conspiracy'…It is genocide of Kashmiris, which must be stopped at any cost, or it will have the worst consequences," the Mirwaiz said.
It was expected that the JKLF chairman and "Gandhi of Kashmir", Mohammad Yasin Malik, would also follow in the footsteps of Geelani and the Mirwaiz and he did it. It ordered the left-to-the-care of-god-and-anarchy common Kashmiri Muslims to observe a complete strike so that a message reached the international community that the "police and the CRPF have been violating the human rights of the Kashmiri Muslims and butchering them." "JKLF has already begun the court arrest programme against the atrocities in Kashmir and several party workers, including its chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik, were lodged in (the) Central jail, Srinagar. The troops were killing Kashmiris, which indicates that India is carrying out the genocide of Kashmiris in the garb of democracy," the JKLF vice-chairman, Bashir Ahmad, said while expressing solidarity with other Kashmiri separatists, who have been thriving on the blood and sweat of the innocent Kashmiri Muslims and leading a luxurous life in their heeavily-guarded and protected palatial houses.
It was also expected that the National Front (NF) chairman, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, would also make common cause with Geelani, the Mirwaiz and Yasin Malik and he did exactly that. He endorsed the strike call, ordered the hapless Kashmiri Muslims to "take to (the) streets and protest the ongoing killings." "Such killings will continue if the AFSPA is not revoked and Kashmir not demilitarized," Nayeem Khan said. The upshot of his argment was the same: "International community and the rights organizations (must) take cognizance of human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir (read the Kashmir Valley as disturbed by the vested interests like Geelani, the Miwaiz, Yasin Malik and Nayeem Khan himself).
The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (R); the president of Jamiat Ahli Hadith, Showkat Ahmed Shah; the acting chairman of Jammu Kashmir People's League, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza; the chairman Jammu Kashmir Salvation Movement, Zaffar Akbar Bhat; the Jamaat-e-Islami; the People's Political Party (PPP), the Democratic Freedom Party, the Jammu Kashmir Mass Movement, the Jammu Kashmir Mahaz-e-Azadi (MeA) and the Democratic Political Movement; and who not also stood solidly behind Geelani and others of his ilk to terrorize the common Kashmiri Muslims so that they obserbed a complete shutdown. Their argument were the same. The security agencies have been using "unbridled force on innocent people protesting against the state terrorism and killing of youth. The main reason for continuance of the worst type of human right violations is the presence of draconian laws like AFSPA and presence of the security forces camps and bunkers in populated areas."
Interestingly, Dukhtara-i-Milat chief and rabble-rouser Asiya Andrabi did not support the idea of shutdown. "The strike calls are futile and will not lead Kashmiri people to anywhere…Till all Kashmiri people, including men, women and children, will come on streets and stage indefinite protest for freedom, nothing will change."
One may try to the hilt to find if any of the militant or separatist or any of the militant organizations asked the innocent, emotional and gullible Kashmiri Muslims even indirectly not to take the law of the land into their hands; not to confront the police, the Army and the CRPF; not to attack the vehicles of the security forces; not to resort to stone-pelting; and not to indulge in any provocative activity against the Indian State, one would come out of this exercise minus everything. On the contrary, the investigator would at once come to the conclusion that the intentions of those ordering a shutdown are not noble and that their only objective is to instigate the innocent Kashmiri Muslims against the security forces so that there are violent clashes; so that there are some casulties; and so that they could remain in limelight after causing deaths and destruction. (To be continued)
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