Syed Ali Shah Geelani, known as a hardline figure in Kashmir’s separatist camp, today said his party was opposed to the killing of “innocent” people, including sarpanches and panches who are being targeted by suspected militants in a deadly year-long campaign of assassinations.
Geelani painted his party and ideology as a peaceful political struggle.
“Our long-standing policy is that no innocent should be killed,” Geelani said in reply to a question about the stand of his party on a spate in the assassination of sarpanches and panches in the Valley.
“Our long-standing policy is that no innocent should be killed,” Geelani said in reply to a question about the stand of his party on a spate in the assassination of sarpanches and panches in the Valley.
“No one should be targeted because of political differences. This is our policy,” he said.
Since the 2011 panchayat elections, dozens of sarpanches and panches have been killed by suspected militants across the Kashmir region and many more have been forced to publicly resign in southern, central and northern districts.
Geelani, who once was considered to hold a considerable sway among the militant ranks, said stone-pelting and burning of buildings was not part of their separatist struggle.
“In 2010 when I was released from the Chesma-Shahi sub-jail, I announced at a press conference that our struggle should be peaceful and there is no space for ‘jalaav’, ‘gherao’ and ‘pathrao’ (burning, cordoning and stone-pelting),” Geelani said.
Geelani said despite calling for calm at a “critical time” in the summer of 2010 — when widespread protests had paralysed the state apparatus, and police stations and government offices were being attacked and burnt across Kashmir — his party was being “targeted” and restrictions were being imposed on its members.
Geelani’s 2010 press-conference in which he had called for calm was a vital landmark in taking out Kashmir from a spiral of violent street protests and deadly police crackdown.
Geelani said despite calling for calm at a “critical time” in the summer of 2010 — when widespread protests had paralysed the state apparatus, and police stations and government offices were being attacked and burnt across Kashmir — his party was being “targeted” and restrictions were being imposed on its members.
Geelani’s 2010 press-conference in which he had called for calm was a vital landmark in taking out Kashmir from a spiral of violent street protests and deadly police crackdown.
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