Firdous Shah paid rich and glorious tribute to martyred of 22 October 1993. And castigating government for harassing the family members of Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Chairman Firdous Shah Democratic Political Movement in his statement paid glorious and rich tribute to those who got martyred on October 22, after Friday prayers, when around 15,000 people gathered in the court yard of the local Jamia Masjid Bijbehara to register their protest against the siege.
A procession then started marching through various streets shouting slogans for the ending of the Hazratbal siege and in support of Kashmir’s freedom. When the procession reached main road (Srinagar – Jammu National Highway), there was a large contingent of the Border Security Force (BSF). As the whole procession reached on top of the road in the Gooriwan locality. BSF personnel closed in on the protesters from three sides and started to fire indiscriminately on them, killing dozens of people on spot and injuring more than 200 others. The firing continued for nearly ten minutes with the troops targeting the crowd directly. Against the massacre, Mufti Baha-ud-din Farooqi, the former chief justice of Jammu & Kashmir High Court in Srinagar, authored a report for the People’s Commission of Inquiry on December 27, 1993, which said, “The men and officers of 74 Battalion of BSF indiscriminately rained bullets on the peaceful, unarmed, innocent and unsuspecting demonstrators”.
The report said that 37 persons, mostly young, were left dead, and 92 persons injured, some of the disabled for life. National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), which investigated the massacre, on January 17, 1994, asked for disciplinary proceedings against 14 personnel of border security forces involved in the incident, but till date no person was booked for martyring the innocent Kashmiri people.
The government of India and puppet government have given free hand to Occupational forces to kill Kashmiri people. Shah strongly denouncing the puppet government and authorties for harassing the family members of Qaid Syed Ali Shah Geelani Sahib, who is ailing and is detained in his own home not allowing to come out from his residential house nor his children or any other person is allowed to meet Qaid Geelani Sahib, which is sheer frustration of puppet government, we clear it that any mishaps happen with the life of Qaid Geelani Sahib whole responsibility is upon the shoulders of puppet government especially CM.