Srinagar Oct 30: The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) on Tuesday pledged to have wide-ranging consultations with all factions of the society to frame a “comprehensive joint strategy” and present it before the people.
The JRL comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, held a meeting at the Geelani’s Hyderpora residence to discuss the prevailing situation in Kashmir, a JRL press release informed.
“The forces have unleashed naked aggression against the people of Kashmir where youth are being selectively killed and property damaged under a sinister design to consolidate the grip of occupation over Jammu & Kashmir by New Delhi,” the JRL press release said.
It said the “suppression has reached a stage where it has become unbearable for the population which cannot silently tolerate it further.”
In order to defeat these “cruel designs” of New-Delhi, JRL said it has decided to have wide-ranging consultations with all factions of the society including political and religious organizations, traders, transporters, employees, academicians, civil society and others to frame a “comprehensive joint strategy” and present it before the people.
JRL termed the blowing up of houses with explosive material, thrashing of relatives including women of even slain armed youth, merciless beating of people during search operations and damaging property including the apple and other fruit orchards as “crimes against humanity committed by the Indian forces”.
They urged international community to take serious note of the events unfolding in the pain-stricken Kashmir.
Strongly denouncing these “inhuman acts”, JRL said “people of Kashmir, especially people living in south Kashmir have completely been left at the mercy of the Indian forces, who have made the life of common citizens hell by not even allowing them to go to their paddy fields and orchards to reap the crop.”
They said that “it is so unfortunate that whosoever tries to raise a voice against the brutality of forces, is silenced either by ruthless torture or through other means of repression.”
“Indian forces have turned Kashmir into a killing field where innocent people including women are killed with immunity by Indian forces anytime, anywhere,” they said, adding that “Army chief Bipin Rawat’s recent statement has further encouraged the men in uniform to increase brutality and killing Kashmiris besides indulging in widespread vandalism to prevent and chock voice of protest against these brutalities.”
“While Indian forces are resorting to the worst human rights violations against the people of Kashmir unabatedly, Indian electronic media leaves no stone unturned to project the Kashmir situation in such a color that appears to justify the brutality of the forces against the Kashmiris,” they said.
The JRL strongly condemned the crackdown on the “resistance leadership”, stating that most of the resistance leaders have been booked under PSA and lodged in jails outside the J&K State which reflects the “dictatorial and authoritarian approach of New Delhi to muzzle the voice and rights of the people through a naked display of its military might”.
