Civilian Killings: JRL calls for shutdown today

Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik Tuesday said that Kashmir has been turned into a killing field where the lives of men, women and even children are not safe. The brutal killings of Misra Bano and Asif Iqbal of Kupwara, Ruby (Beauty Jan) Jan of Shupian and Zahid Ahmad who was killed in Rajasthan India, clearly show that Indian army, Forces and police are here only to kill Kashmiris and pro-India politicians are deployed to provide legal shield to these killers.
The leadership said that Kashmiris cannot and will never remain silent on this genocide and will observe a total shut down today on 20th December 2017 to protest against this growing Indian aggression.
Terming the ongoing killings of innocent men and women by Indian trigger happy forces as agonizing, JRL leaders in a joint press release said that spree of brutal killings has crossed every limit and has now become intolerable. Leaders said that no Kashmiri is ready to tolerate this genocide silently and no stone will be left unturned to stop these brutalities. Leaders said that some days back, a poor lady Misra Bano was targeted with bullets at Handwara and killers and their abettors’ tried to cover it up by putting blame on cross firing. Only few days after this brutal killing these trigger happy soldiers of illegal occupation gunned down another innocent boy Asif Iqbal who was a lone bread earner for his family and same theory of cross firing was repeated. Today these blood thirsty men in uniform have taken the life of another innocent woman namely Beauty Jan wife of Manzoor ahmad at Shupian and injured many more critically and the story may remain the same.
Similarly another Kashmiri youth Zahid Ahmad was put to death at Rajasthan in mysterious conditions.
JRL Leaders said that be it Indian occupational army , its killer forces or abettors in the form of police and civil administration, each one of these is here to kill Kashmiris with impunity and at will and pro-India politicians remain deployed to provide them with a legal cover. He said that from 1947 till date, Lakhs of people have been killed and maimed by Indian army, police and forces. Though these killings have been triggered by Indian forces but the responsibility lies on the shoulders of those pro-India politicians, assembly members and so-called rulers who provide legal cover and immunity to the killers and thus contribute in this genocide, added JRL leaders.
JRL leaders said that according to the law of nature every tyranny and tyrant has a fixed life and when tyranny exceeds its limits it is bound to perish, this is why Indian aggression and tyranny is also bound to die soon as it has also crossed every limit, said JRL.
Leaders said that tolerating oppression with silence has never been the practice of living nations and as such Kashmiris can and will not accept this brutality silently and will keep resisting this aggression with valor and passion. He said that Indian rulers and their forces have choked every little space on peaceful political activities and even space for every kind of protest has been banned and throttled.
JRL leaders announced that Kashmiris will observe a complete shutdown tomorrow on 20th December 2017, Thursday, against these killings especially against brutal killings of Misra Bano and Asif Iqbal of Kupwara, Ruby (beauty) Jan of Shupian and Zahid Ahmad who was killed in Rajasthan India. JRL leaders appealed people “to shutdown their offices, business establishments, transport and other activities for one day and raise their voices against growing Indian state terrorism.”