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| Put ‘murders’ to end: PDP tells Govt | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 4- Rejecting the magisterial killing into the latest killing attributed to tear smoke shell in Baramulla as ‘hogwash’, Peoples Democratic Party has said government can not get away with murder through probes designed to control the anger rather than end atrocities.
The party in a statement issued today said the government had made a fine art of cover ups as was evident from the series of excesses that took place in different parts of the state ever since it took office without a single person being held accountable. “Ordering probes has been as common as the atrocities”, the statement added.
Referring to more than a dozen fatalities attributed to tear smoke and rubber bullets since last year the statement said it must be a phenomenon unique to Kashmir. While tear smoke and rubber bullets is crowd control instruments to prevent loss of life, in this part of the world even these have grown into a major cause of death he said and wondered whether in any similar situations elsewhere the casualties could be accepted by the state as almost a routine. The statement said that fifteen year old boy Bilal Ahmed Lone son of Ghulam Rasool of Drangbal Baramulla could never have been a threat to peace or security as those innocent persons who were done to death at Gupkar, Bumai, Khigam, Shopian, Aloochibag, Kupwara, Doda or Mendhar. Government announced probes in all those cases but till date neither any action has been taken against the perpetrators nor any one identified.
Recalling the earlier incidents of peaceful protestors falling to government bullets in Srinagar, Baramulla, Sopore, Anantnag and other places the PDP said it seemed the law enforcing agencies were under instructions to shoot to kill. Even if the government claims that many of them had lost life to smoke shells of rubber bullets it was obvious that this method too was used with vengeance to cause maximum damage to the protestors.
‘Government must come out with reports of earlier probes and the action taken on them if it was serious in its business as otherwise the current public mood of anger, unrest and lack of faith in the system could once again explode on the streets causing more damage to peace and the life and property, the statement added.
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