Kashmir’s top militant commander Syed Salahuddin, who heads an amalgam of several militant outfits, has asked separatist leadership not to mislead people by speaking too much about “peaceful struggle”.
He instead struck a hawkish tone, saying arms will only help solve the Kashmir issue.
Salahuddin, who is the chief of the Hizbul Mujahideen outfit, told separatists to resist from stressing peaceful struggle more than was needed.
“With all humility, I request the (separatist) leadership to stop repeating the mantra of peaceful struggle,” Salahuddin said in a telephonic interview with a local news agency here. “They (separatist leaders) know it more than us that military occupations have never ended with peaceful struggles nor does it seem to end like that in future.”
Salahuddin’s advisory to the separatists comes at a time when both the camps --- moderates led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and hardliners led by Syed Ali Geelani ---- have for years spoken in favour of a “peaceful struggle” as a solution to the Kashmir issue.
Militancy in the region has declined in the recent years as many top militant commanders have been eliminated, denting the capacity of remnant militants to carry out major strikes.
Salahuddin, who in 1987 was a candidate for the state Legislative Assembly elections, which are believed to have been rigged, triggering an armed insurgency, said the separatists leaders should keep the peaceful struggle limited to “political and diplomatic fronts” and not give an impression to the people and youth that it is not the time for an armed struggle.
He said military occupation, the term used by the separatists, referring to the Army’s presence in the state, would not merely end by “political movements, seminars and conferences”. He cited the examples of Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam, saying Americans left these place because of armed struggles.
Salahuddin, whose renewed militant tenor seemed to have been heavily influenced by the war in Afghanistan where American troops are winding up operations in 2014 after more than a decade-long presence, has for the first time in the recent years spoken so vividly against the policies and modus-operandi of the separatist leaders.
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