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| Kashmir silent on man's slaughtering before family by militants | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 28: Even as many in Kashmir claim to "champions of human rights", every such voice has been silent over the slaughtering of a man, whose throat was slit by militants, right before his family in Hajin area of north Kashmir.
On May 26 night, around five militants stormed house of 38 -year-old Mohammad Yaqoob Wagay in Gund Preng village and virtually butchered him before his seven -year-old son and wife.
Locals said while three of the militants overpowered his wife and son to gag them, the other two slit throat of family head with knife right inside their kitchen till he bled to death.
It's for the first time that someone has been butchered so brutally right in the presence of his family members in Kashmir.
But the gruesome murder has failed to attract attention of people of Kashmir, especially those with separatist sentiment and the so called civil society groups, all of whom claim to be "activists of human rights."
From militant-turned-rights activist Muhammad Ahsan Untoo to Prof Hamida Nayeem who heads the Kashmir Center for Studies and Dialogue, none such voices nor the Hurriyats have condemned the killing or the militants for this crime.
For all such "champions of human rights in Kashmir", there business is to be silent when it's known that the killing has been executed by the militants, much the way it happened at Hajin.
The Joint Resistance Leadership led by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik, on the other hand, have not issued any condemnation.
This silence from those who claim to be champions of the human rights and leave no stone unturned to tarnish the image of the security forces have been silent on the butchery of a human being whose family is shell shocked and was waiting for someone from such forums to visit them with a word of consolation and condemnation.
But neither of the separatist leaders bothered to visit the bereaved family, nor the civil society groups.
Observers said it was high time for the people of Kashmir to have voluntarily opted for hartal against the killing. "The simple logic which needs to be understood by one and all is that today it was Hajin man tomorrow it could be you or me being slaughtered before our family. If we don't raise a voice today, butchering humans will be a new normal in Kashmir," said an academician at Kashmir University.
"This killing has exposed the scare of militants and bias in Kashmir that no one is ready to condemn the condemnable," he added. |
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