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Pro-freedom camp says indebted to martyrs

SRINAGAR: The pro-freedom camp on Tuesday paid tributes to slain Anantnag militants, saying Kashmir is “indebted to the martyrs’ sacrifices”.
Chairperson of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik, in a statement issued here, said the struggle for which “the sacred blood of innocent martyrs was being sacrificed and showered” cannot be defeated by any power in the world.
“This series of testimonies and sacrifice continues today, and martyrdom of the three young sons of Kashmir at Ashmuqam Islamabad is part of this series of offerings,” he said.
The state, he said, was pushing youths towards militancy by denying space to political straggle.
“Indian and its Kashmiri stooges have unleashed a reign of terror against peaceful political struggle and every little space on peaceful political struggle has been choked. This is pushing young ones of Kashmir to the wall and hence they are considering other means of struggle to resist this oppression,” Malik said.
A JKLF delegation, according to the statement, participated in the funeral prayers and burial of the militants at Bijbehara.
The incarcerated leader of Hurriyat Conference (G) and Chairperson Democratic Freedom Party, Shabir Ahmad Shah said the martyrs were giving a “new direction to the freedom movement”.
Reiterating his pledge for “taking the mission of martyrs to its goal”, Shah, in a statement issued here, said: “We are indebted to the sacrifices rendered by them.”
On Shah’s directions, the statement said, a DFP delegation participated in the funeral procession and prayers of the militants.
Shah also condemned the arrests of youths in parts of Kashmir.
National Front Chairman, Nayeem Ahmad Khan also paid tributes to the militants
“These martyrs are real heroes of the freedom struggle, because it is their blood which infuses life into it. So we must honour our martyrs by honouring their mission,” Khan said in a statement issued here.
Religio-political organisation, Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI), while paying tributes to the slain militants, said, “These youth have given sacrifices for the movement and left a responsibility on us to take this just cause, without any sellout and exhaustion, to its logical end.”
“It is the sacrifices of our brave and daring youths who took Kashmir movement to international forums,” JeI said in its statement issued here.
A delegation of JeI leaders visited families of the slain militants and expressed solidarity on behalf with their bereaved families, the statement said.
JKLF (H) Chairman, Javaid Ahmad Mir, in a statement issued here, said the “sacrifices” of the youths were “the real treasures of the ongoing resistance movement”.
He suggested the families of the youths killed in peaceful protest to not allow the pro-India party members into their homes.
He blamed the pro-India political parties for making Kashmir “economically dependent” and “looting Kashmir’s vast resources”.
Chairman JKLF (R) Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Bita Karetey also paid tributes to the militants.
In a statement issued here, he pledged to take their mission to its logical end.
“We are committed to take forward the mission of martyrs, and, despite all odds, people in state have time and again reposed their faith in ongoing freedom movement,” he said, expressing sympathy with the bereaved families.
Dar also condemned the ongoing arrest spree in the Valley.
Meanwhile, Hurriyat Conference (M) said its delegation was not allowed to participate in funeral prayers.
A Hurriyat (M) statement said its senior executive member, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza, who was heading towards Aishmuqam for attending the funeral prayers and to pay tributes to the three militants, was detained at Sher Bagh Police Station in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
The conglomerate condemned the police action, and also the use of excessive force on the people of south Kashmir.

By Kashmir Readers