LeT militant urges others in video to shun violence, return home
Shooting videos by warring parties seems to be another accepted part of combat in Kashmir as a video of an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba militant shot in the custody of security forces goes viral on social media.
Aijaz Ahmad Gojri, a resident of Jami Mohalla Baramulla, who was arrested earlier this week is urging his colleagues to shun violence in the video, released on Thursday. He was arrested with nine other accused in the murder of three civilians in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on the evening of April 30.
“I request my other colleagues who are currently on the wrong path – Suhaib Farooq Akhoon, Mohsin Mushtaq Bhat and Nasir Amin Darzi – to return home. They have left their homes and good life and adopted a wrong life. We were wandering in jungles for the past six months. I request them (to return) for their parents. I want to tell Nasir Amin that his mother is very ill and he must return to his mother. Everybody, for God’s sake, return to your homes,” Gojri said in the video.
Senior superintendent of police (SSP), Baramulla, Imtiyaz Hussain confirmed the video of Gojri was shot during his stay in army hospital as he was injured during his arrest. “He himself wanted to appeal to his friends,” he said. Hussain said Gojri along with Suhaib Farooq Akhoonv (who is still absconding) and Bilal Ahmad Najar had opened fire on three youths in Baramulla using two AK-47 rifles and a Chinese pistol. Others had provided the logistics.
Bullet riddled bodies of Haseeb Nabi Khan, Irfan Ahmad Sheikh alias Asif Ahmad Sheikh and Mohd Asgar Sheikh alias Afsar Khan were found at Iqbal Market, old town Baramulla, on April 30.
Hussain said the youth were killed by three LeT militants on the suspicion of being informers. “The truth is that they were not informers and since 2008 not a single militants has been killed in Barmulla,” he said.
Gojri was the first one to be arrested in a very dramatic raid in the forest area of Drangbal-Hajibal in Baramulla.
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