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| INTELLECTUALS JOIN JKLF'S HUNGER STRIKE IN PROTEST AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS 'ABUSES' | | WE'LL COURT ARRESTS FROM SEPTEMBER 15, SAYS MALIK | |
Srinagar, Sept 12,; Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front led by its chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik on Tuesday organized a day-long token hunger strike in protest against the alleged escalation in human rights abuses in Kashmir.
JKLF will court arrests in all the major towns of Valley from September 15.
Describing his agitation as sustained and organized, the Front chairman said that there has been a rise in human rights abuses in Kashmir and that too after the "promise of zero tolerance made by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on May 25."
"During his last visit to Kashmir Prime Minister went to the extent of saying that he will not tolerate even zero percent of human rights violations but from the last three months what has happened in Kashmir is unfortunate and unwarranted," Mr Malik said sitting inside a canopy erected in Maisuma, his stronghold, where hundreds of other participants including intellectuals, lawyers, doctors, engineers, and poets were present to register their protest as well.
"A youth was killed in Dalgate market by the CRPF personnel and the killers were rewarded, in the dead of night a disabled Inayatullah Bhat of Munawarabad was killed mercilessly and later troops tried to dub him as a 'Fidayeen'.
Joined by intellectuals like Agha Ashraf Ali, poet Rehman Rahi, satirist Zareef Ahmad Zareef, human rights activist Kumar Ji Wanchoo, and former bureaucrat Abdul Ahad, a number of lawyers, students and teachers, Malik demanded an impartial probe by international bodies into all the incidents of rights abuses in Kashmir.
Highlighting the importance of human rights, Mr Zareef said: "It was imperative upon all of us to restore our rights and people's safety should be our primary concern."
Pertinent to recall that JKLF had to postpone its hunger strike and court arrests in wake of the recent flood fury, the strike was earlier scheduled for September 7. |
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