Stricter curbs in Valley on leaders’ death anniversary
On the death anniversaries of two prominent Kashmiri leaders, Molvi Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone, strict restrictions were put in place in Kashmir during the curfew.
The police and security forces had fixed barricades at several places and nobody was allowed to move in the city interiors.
Molvi Farooq was killed by unidentified gunmen at his Nageen residence on May 21, 1990, while Abdul Gani Lone was also assassinated during a function at Eidgah on the day separatist leadership had organised function in connection with the death anniversary in 2001.
Fresh deployments were made across the city to prevent any untoward incident.
“Today, strict restrictions were in place and we were stopped at six places on the way to hospital and only after we showed documents, the police allowed us to proceed,” said one of the patients.
Meanwhile, Peoples’ Conference chairman Sajjad Lone said his father was killed 19 years ago for speaking truth. “Remembering my father Abdul Gani Lone who was killed on this day nineteen years ago. Killed for expressing his ideas. Killed for speaking the truth. Truth is as much of a rarity now as it was then,” Lone said in a series of tweets.
He further said the people deserve to know oppressors.
“As long as we do not stop collectively lying especially on who killed whom we as people will continue to be in the state that we r. People deserve to know-oppressors have many forms. And the worse form of oppressors r those who oppress under the fig leaf of fighting oppression (sic),” he said.