JRL calls for complete shutdown on Monday

Srinagar : Joint Resistance Leaders (JRL), Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Dr. Mohammad Umar Farooq and Mohammad Yasin Malik while paying tributes to the slain militants civilian killed in Kulgam Qazigund, extended their sympathies with the dozens of people critically injured by the bullets of forces.
JRL in a statement issued to KNS made a fervent appeal to the freedom loving people to observe complete shutdown on Monday 17th September 2018 against “turning Kashmir, especially South Kashmir into a battle field” and offer funeral prayers in absentia on 16 September after Zuhar Prayers.
JRL said that “these young martyrs are sacrificing their present for our best future.”
The JRL expressed their regrets on the ‘stubbornness of India and her military arrogance’, which they termed as “the main stumbling block in the way of peaceful resolution of Kashmir dispute in exercise of a democratic and political formula of right to self-determination.”
“Much blood has flown in the rivers of Kashmir, it needs a human heart to end the bloodshed and allow the subjugated people of Kashmir to decide their own fate according to their free will,” said JRL.
Meanwhile, JRL expressed their grave concern over the use of military arrogance by the Special Operation Group (SOG) of police to summon political leaders and activists to their respective camps.
The JRL termed the SOG action as ‘a mark of tyranny and barbarism’ to suppress the voice of a popular movement for right to self-determination.
“Air Cargo Srinagar, Islamabad, Kulgam, Shopian, Pulwama, Bandipora, Baramulla and in all other districts, the SOG personnel and the army intelligence agencies, as per reports from the political activists associated with the resistance movement, these agencies summon the said persons to their camps which has caused panic and consistent threat to their lives,” alleged JRL.
The JRL while condemning the SOG action to serve ‘threat’ calls to the leaders and other activists belonging to resistance movement, termed it “a worst example of depriving an innocent person from “right to live” as a basic right honoured all over the world.”
The JRL appeal UN and its Human Rights Commission and all other recognized human rights organizations to take serious cognizance of “a dangerous threat” to the life of pro-resistance activists, because persistent denial of political and civil rights to the people of Kashmir has made their lives vulnerable at the hands of SOG and other military agencies of India.