Srinagar, January 18, 2019 (PPI-OT):In occupied Kashmir, the Joint resistance leadership (JRL) has said that complete shutdown will be observed at Gaw Kadal, Basant Bagh, Kani-Kadal, Chota-Bazaar, Budshah chowk and its adjacent areas on 21st January while as Handwara town will observe strike on 25th January and Kupwara town on 27th January respectively.
The JRL comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement issued in Srinagar, today, termed the massacres at Gaw Kadal, Handwara and Kupwara in 1990 as a reminder of Indian illegal occupation and oppression.
The JRL said congregational prayers meetings will be also held on 21st January at Gaw-Kadal, and on 25th January and 27th January at Handwara and Kupwara towns respectively. It said carnage at Gaw Kadal, Handwara and Kupwara remind us of Indian brutal occupation and oppression. The people of Kashmir is indebted to martyrs who laid down their lives for freedom and resistance leadership pledges to continue this struggle till the achievement of the sacred goal, he added.
The JRL said united India during its struggle for freedom against British witnessed only one Jalianwala Bagh but the Kashmiri people have witnessed dozens of such massacres carried out by Indian forces from 1990 and this slaughter is still going on unabated.
It said the sole aim of India is to terrorize people of Kashmir through these brutal massacres and put an end to the resistance movement but India failed to do so in past and will fail to do so in future too. It said that in 1990, people of Kashmir started a people’s revolt against Indian occupation and to crush this people’s resistance, at the orders of Indian political leadership, Indian army and forces started its killing machine and massacred thousands of people in cold blood and this carnage is still going unabated.
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