Incarcerated chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik while paying glowing tributes to Muhammad Afzal Guru, today said, “gallows, life imprisonments, curfews, arrests, intimidations and threats will never succeed in breaking the will of Kashmiris and their urge for freedom.”
“Indian state not only hanged Maqbool and Afzal in Tihar jail but also denied them a proper burial by burying them inside the jail premises. The height of shamelessness of this so-called biggest democracy is that it even disallowed these martyrs one last chance of meeting their loved ones,” a spokesman of the JKLF, in a statement today, quoted Yasin Malik as having said from Central Jail Srinagar.
“Hangings, arrests, life imprisonments, harassments, police and army intimidations and other oppressive measures cannot suppress the voices of Kashmiris for long and the day is not far when dawn of freedom will rise on the horizons of Jammu Kashmir. Kashmiris will continue their struggle till the desired goal is not achieved and till India returns the mortal remains of Maqbool Bhat and Afzal Guru,” asserted Yasin Malik.
“The sacrifices of Afzal Guru, the oppressive measures, and persecution he and his family faced at the hands of India is part of our resistance history. Same tyranny and repression was faced by Maqbool Bhat and his family 34 years ago,” he said.