Srinagar, Apr 17 (KNS): Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik on Monday condemned the ‘police assaults’ on Kashmiri students in various parts of Kashmir Valley today.
In a statement issued to KNS, the JKLF chairman said, “Police, SOG and CRPF along with Indian army crossed every limit of brutality at Pulwama Degree College and dozens of girl and boy students were injured by police. Highhandedness of Police and army was evident through various videos on social media.”
He said that today Kashmiri students across the valley with one voice staged peaceful protest against ‘this brutality’ and at various places the ‘oppressive attitude’ was repeated against unarmed peaceful students.
Malik said, “Attacks on colleges and schools and brutalizing students is not acceptable to any civilized society and today’s peaceful protest by students of Kashmir is a genuine, legal and democratic protest and stopping it by police might cannot be termed but as clear state terrorism.”
JKLF chairman said that “this brutal use of force on students of various universities, colleges and schools throughout Kashmir valley is a proof of the fact that Jammu Kashmir is a police state where nobody is allowed to raise his head or voice in protest and also it has become amply clear that it is not the youth who start violence but it is the police and forces that initiate and promote violence.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel”
Malik said that choking every little space on peaceful protests and banning every peaceful activity is ‘undemocratic’ in every way and today what has transpired at every college and school is ‘a glaring example of police highhandedness and suppression’.
He said that “Indian rulers, the state government and bias media during mass uprising of 2016 childishly called the conduct of school examinations as a referendum against Azadi but today same rulers employed their brute police force to stop peaceful protest of students and used cane charge, teargas, pepper gas and other oppressive methods.”
While hailing the students of Kashmir especially the girl students for their show of unity and solidarity with Pulwama students, JKLF chairman said that their peaceful protest and show of resilience is a heartening example of peaceful resistance against ‘tyranny, oppression and illegal occupation’.
While praying for the speedy recovery of the injured students, JKLF chairman also prayed for the recent martyrs. (KNS)