Srinagar, Mar 24 (KNS): The incarcerated chairman of a Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Shabir Ahmad Shah on Thursday paid tributes to civilians killed in Pathribal fake encounter and Barakpora, Islamabad on their 16 th anniversaries. Five innocent civilians were killed in Pathribal and seven in Barakpora, by Indian forces.
In a statement to KNS, Shah, who continues to be in police detention, said the memories of these gory incidents are still afresh in our minds and we can never forget such barbarism of Indian occupational forces. Just before these killings, Indian forces carried out a heinous massacre of Sikhs in Chattisinghpora in such 35 innocent persons were killed. "And those families still wait for justice."
He said India made a failed attempt to defame the Kashmiris' freedom movement by perpetrating such bloody massacres on the arrival of the then US President Bill Clinton.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel
He said though CBI confirmed that Indian forces were involved in these heinous crimes and provided evidence against them, not a single culprit has been brought to book.
"Indian agencies claimed of having killed militants in a gunfight but after their graves were opened, everything became crystal clear as the slain turned our to be the civilians who were killed in a fake encounter
Shah expressed solidarity with the families of the victims of these massacres and demanded fair investigation into these killings by an independent agency."To trust upon Indian government and its agencies is out of question for us. The changing of DNA of Pathribal victims should be an eye-opener in this regard," he said. (KNS)