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| Rule Of Law Will now JK Government book killers of Mirwaiz, Lone and Bhat? | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 4: Now that the former APHC chairman, Abdul Ghani Bhat, has publicly said that Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq, Abdul Gani Lone and his brother Prof Muhammad Sultan Bhat were killed by "our own men" and that "what is the need to identify them (killers), as they are already identified", it is an appropriate time to take some credible against them to establish the rule of law and send a message across the state that persons found involved in heinous acts and seditious activities would face stringent action in case they refused to behave. Bhat set the record straight while addressing the JKLF-sponsored seminar on "Role of intellectuals in the freedom struggle" on Sunday in Srinagar.
What he said in the presence of almost all the separatist leaders, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, reads like this: "No police was involved (in the killings). It was our own people who killed them. Time has come to speak the truth about the killers of Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone, who were shot dead in 2002, and his own brother Mohammad Sultan Bhat, who was murdered in 1995. What is the need to identify them. They are already identified. I had said this then and I am saying it now. There is no ambiguity or confusion in my mind." Remember, the Kashmiri separatists had blamed Army and police for the "murder" of these "freedom fighters."
What is the reaction of separatists like Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and Syed Ali Shah Geelani to what Abdul Ghani Bhat said? What is the reaction of the state police to his unambiguous charge? Mirwiz Farooq and Malik, who shared the dais with Bhat, did not contest Bhat. Nor did they touch the issue. They chose to skip the issue for obvious reasons. Geelani also refused to comment on the "remarks" made by Bhat. The attitude of Mirwaiz, Malik and Geelani to what Bhat said did vindicate the revealing Bhat and exposed them in the eyes of the Kashmiri people who have been facing various kinds of hardships, particularly since 1989. Bhat catalogued the sufferings of the Kashmiris as well while nailing the likes of Geelani and the killers of Mirwaiz, Lone and Bhat.
As for the police the police reaction, Director General of Police Kuldeep Khoda told reporters that the "police had always maintained that militants were killing leaders of rival factions" and that "now when a separatist leader himself makes this disclosure, all I can say is that our stand has been vindicated."
The police response is not adequate. It only indicates the inability of the police to take action against those who killed Mirwaiz, Lone and Bhat and who have been squarely responsible for the ongoing over 20-year-old orgy of death and destruction in Kashmir and displacement of the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus. The police response also indicates its inaction in the matter despite the fact that the law and order authorities, like Abdul Ghani Bhat, knew who the killers of Mirwaiz, Lone and Bhat were? Had the police taken stringent action when these gruesome acts took place or had they nipped the evil in the bud, the situation in Kashmir today would have been somewhat different. The state would not have witnessed what it witnessed during all these more than 20 years of secessionist and communal violence in the Valley.
There is no doubt that the Kashmiri separatists and merchants of death and destruction in Kashmir carried out their anti-India operations and indulged in anti-social activities with utmost ease because the clueless state administration behaved rather meekly. It provided the required oxygen to the unpopular separatists. In fact, instead of taking on the separatists, killers and terrorists, the state apparatus provided them a foolproof security cover. Not just this, the statue apparatus facilitated meetings between the separatists and these killers and foreign diplomats. In short, the status apparatus simply accorded the agents of death and destruction what could be legitimately termed as a dangerous legitimacy, thus creating an impression that there were certain elements in the establishment who were hand-in-glove with the separatists and killers. The story of New Delhi was no different. It also behaved meekly and in an irresponsible manner and let things deteriorate with each passing day.
Now that Abdul Ghani Bhat has risked his life by setting the record straight, it is time for the state apparatus to act and act tough. The statement of Bhat is unambiguous and unequivocal and what the Director General of Police has said is also in the public domain. Everything is as clear as crystal. What is needed is a definite action to restore the public confidence in the system and criminal justice system and the only action that needs to be taken is action under the law of the land on what Bhat has said. The governments in the state and at the centre should work in tandem to cleanse the Valley of all undesirable elements. |
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