In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops, in their unabated acts of state terrorism, martyred 18 Kashmiris including three young boys during the last month of January.
According to the data issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, Thursday, these killings rendered two women widowed and 10 children orphaned.
As many as 147 people were injured due to the use of brute force and firing of bullets, pellets and teargas shells by Indian troops and police personnel against mourners and peaceful protesters while 137 civilians including Hurriyet leaders and activists were arrested during the month.
Indian forces’ personnel also destroyed and damaged 62 residential houses and disgraced six women during the period.
In Occupied Kashmir , complete shutdown is being observed in south Kashmir’s Pulwama and Shopian districts today, to mourn the death of a youth injured by Indian troops, who succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Srinagar on Wednesday.
The youth, Rayees Ahmed Ganai, a resident of Narpora, Shopian, was injured in firing by Indian troops on protesters in Ganowpora area of Shopian on Saturday.
All shops and business establishments are closed in Shopian and Pulwama districts while traffic is thin.
Meanwhile, Chairman of Hurriyet Forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has deplored the suppression of Kashmiris’ freedom movement by India through military might.
In a statement in Srinagar, he said under various black laws, Indian troops have been given absolute powers to kill the Kashmiris at will without any fear of prosecution or accountability.
