Srinagar : Commenting on the recent statement of newly appointed governor of Jammu and Kashmir wherein he said that Kashmir has been mishandled by New Delhi, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani on Saturday said that Kashmir has not only been mishandled but manhandled as well and governor’s acceptance vindicates our stand. In a statement issued to , Geelani said that right from 1947 the issue has been seen only through the prism of law and order, while as aspirations and emotions of people have always been ignored.
He said that “denial of the historical and ground realities and parroting the ‘Atoot Ang’ rhetoric was the biggest blunder, India made, giving birth to a tragedy which has engulfed more than three generations of a helpless nation. It has not only threatened the peace of the subcontinent but has also put the two nuclear nations at the verge of catastrophic collision.”He said that governor has accepted half of the reality while in the same breath he has lied that people of Jammu and Kashmir have willfully and wishfully joined India, which is totally baseless and in contrast to the ground realities.
“Had these assertions any standing then more than a million forces with latest weaponry would not be patrolling every street here, then draconian laws like AFSPA, PSA, and Disturbed Area Act etc. would not have been enforced, every patch of land here would not have been soaked in blood of Kashmiries, more than 10 thousand innocents would not have been disappeared after arresting them in the broad-day-light in presence of their family, more than 800 unmarked graves would not have been declared a gross human rights violation by word community, rape and molestation of women would not have been used as a weapon of war, hundreds of martyr’s graveyards would not have been spread through length and breadth of vale, and there would not have been any mass uprising especially in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2016 where hundreds of people mostly school going teenagers got killed by bullets, blinded by pallets and injured by Indian and state armory, thousands of pro-freedom workers and leaders would not be languishing in far flung jails and interrogation centers in and outside state, above all there would not have been more than 18 United Nations resolutions signifying and certifying the disputed nature of the dispute
