STOP KILLINGS
Yet another innocent youth lost his life when a teenager Bangroo of Safakadal in Srinagar, who was seriously injured in the brutal beating by the CRPF men on June 12 , succumbed to his injuries in the hospital after battling for life for eight days . The death of the youth caused expected anger among the people and protested. Instead of taking control the paramilitary forces started firing indiscriminately killing yet another teenager Rafiq Malla who had gathered to perform the last rites of Bangroo. As the word about Malla’s death—second in less than 12 hours—spread, hundreds of people including men, women and children took to the streets and staged massive anti-India demonstrations. While Bangroo was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard at Noorbagh, Malla’s body was buried at Martyrs’ graveyard at Iddgah. Where thousands of people have been buried since the inception of the militancy. The idea of Martyr's graveyard was conceived by the locals of Idgah area in 1990 to pay tributes to those who would fight for Kashmir's resolution. Living up to this spirit, it is mentioned on the signboard of the graveyard: "Lest you forget, we have given our today for tomorrow of yours.
Yet another innocent youth lost his life when a teenager Bangroo of Safakadal in Srinagar, who was seriously injured in the brutal beating by the CRPF men on June 12 , succumbed to his injuries in the hospital after battling for life for eight days . The death of the youth caused expected anger among the people and protested. Instead of taking control the paramilitary forces started firing indiscriminately killing yet another teenager Rafiq Malla who had gathered to perform the last rites of Bangroo. As the word about Malla’s death—second in less than 12 hours—spread, hundreds of people including men, women and children took to the streets and staged massive anti-India demonstrations. While Bangroo was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard at Noorbagh, Malla’s body was buried at Martyrs’ graveyard at Iddgah. Where thousands of people have been buried since the inception of the militancy. The idea of Martyr's graveyard was conceived by the locals of Idgah area in 1990 to pay tributes to those who would fight for Kashmir's resolution. Living up to this spirit, it is mentioned on the signboard of the graveyard: "Lest you forget, we have given our today for tomorrow of yours. Coming back to the innocent killings, The armed forces are armed with impunity under the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act, and their acts are beyond the purviews of the judiciary. Even the National Human Rights Commission has no mandate to deal with such incidents of grave human rights abuses. It is not only the armed forces and central para-military forces which are involved in such killings. Such human rights abuses become too frequent with the presence of a very large number of armed forces in the civilian areas who enjoy the culture of impunity.
While such killings of innocent persons only alienate the people and creates more hatred against India, it also belittles the claims of New Delhi that they are sincere in resolving the vexed issue
7 comments:
Ohh my God this is the worse time for kashmir and kashmiri's. God be with all the people who are victims of such criminal activities.
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Amir Riyaz
Its very sad. Teenagers should'nt be killed .
These killiings wont stop by mere asking and complaining to new delhi.
It is we people who have to do something about it.
Unless and until a mass movement at a highly organized level is carried out, nothing much can be done.
A very Good piece of blog Tanveer Shb. Its really painful to see such bloodshed and people getting killiend without any crime .
@ all thank you for you comments.
@ Munis Sidiq, any better ideas you could put forth?
Mr. Tanvir I read ur artcle on GK..First half was good and another half was awful..The governance of Mr. Umer Singh has failed miserably. Corruption at its peak, killings and attrocities..U said about fake Machil Encounter and gave credit to the CM.Is that fair??? U said Mr Omer has told the CRPF to avoid firing on the mob but they still did it, this incident as per u compltely indiactes the plight of Mr Umer..For God sake he is a CM and if he could not restrain such things then who has such powers in this state..And also if he feels helpless then its better for him to resign. To me and to the general masses he is just a puppet.
Very sane and reasonable view points, Tanvir. This and the other posts too. Instances of human rights abuse in Kashmir are so distressing. We live at a distance bt the horror is not lost on us. Every time I cross the Human Rights Commission office in Delhi, somehow the one flash that comes 2 my mind is Kashmir. I am sure it is the same with many others too. For yrs I have often wondered when and how this would end…
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