The day Burhan Muzaffar Wani, got killed with other two associates, as per rumors and sources, they had no weapons with them, and were killed without any retaliation from them, on this many political parties and ministers spoke out, forces could have also arrested them, if forces wanted to do that, but unfortunately forces killed him. This hurry up process, ruined the mission of PDP government that late Mufti Syed had desired. The vaccum that is created now, the Mehbooba could not reach to the people when first killing was reported from Anantnag, instead from last two months she has changed her statements now and then. Instead of pointing her finger towards the forces she openly lashed on the protesters, of her own district who made her victory possible in Anantnag. Secondly, the mistake she committed, she did not impose curfew in the area of Burhan Wani, and allowed 6 lakh people to offer funeral prayers, that was the turning point, the same congregation turned violent and protests started against the killing of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani. On the very day 6 people died, in protest clashes between youth and forces. This changed the whole scenario of the Valley, South Kashmir was on boil and slowly all the valley was engulfed in the fire.
Violent Protests erupted everywhere, security forces showed less restraint and used pellets on the protesters, that cropped up in casualties and deaths. Even curfew was not imposed in south Kashmir in the first 4 to 5 days, that lead to more protests and deaths, and till now casualties are rapidly increasing leading to deaths of innocent youths. No eye sight would have lost, if timely action would have taken to avoid all this.
The common people have many questions going on in their mind, some ask was it a plan to disrupt the peace in valley, some think it was done intentionally to bring the government down by killing innocent youths.
A commoner, a Kashur asks a valid point who is responsible for this episode of the state, is anybody from government side answerable for 96 deaths. Who is going to take the responsibility on his or her heads.
According to them no doubt 90% of this agitation is not sponsored by anyone and its the anger of people coming out but then there is that 10%that is run by many parties, BJP, PDP, NC, CONGRESS and Separatists. This time the agents and agencies of all political mainstream parties are actively taking part to fuel it, miscreants and agencies are working round-the-clock to bring more unrest in the Valley and spoil the peace process here.
it is more political underneath than it seams to be superficially, is it that NC doesn’t want PDP to run government, Congress doesn’t want NC to run the government, NC and Congress don’t want BJP to be part of coilation, this time every political party is directly or indirectly taking part or is involved to escalate the tensions by killing innocent and poor youths of the Valley. The schools and government offices that were burnt are not part of an agitation, those who do this are simply could be agents of freedom movement or government political agencies who don’t want that PDP government should rule the state. Even national conference agents were held in plundering and decamping of the weapons from the police station in Kulgam. The flavor in the two months of people and state has turned bitter, due to killing of youths, maiming, injuries that has brought insecurity to the people and had developed psychological problems to the people of the Valley.
No mainstream political parties are trustworthy to be believed, nor that who govern and neither those in opposition. There is no love for the people of Kashmir, but love and lust for power and money. This time crores are spent by agencies to fuel the unrest in the Valley, nothing less nothing more, only poor youth are being killed who easily become their agents for the sake of money, otherwise, separatists have given clear instructions to the people that they should abstain from vandalizing the property whether of government or private.
Instead of creating confusion and choas, leg pulling, why do not the mainstream opposition parties join their hands with the present government leaving the grudges aside, and unanimously compel the Centre to hold talks with all stakeholders and separatists to bring peace in the Valley and stop further more innocent killings of Kashmiri youths.
Pain and anguish seen everywhere.
The views presented in this article are the Author’s own, and does not in anyway depict the views of the Kashmir Digest. This is an Op Ed.
Syed Abadi Hamdani
Freelance Writer
Writes on Social, Economical and Environmental Issues.