Srinagar, July 11, 2023 (PPI-OT): All Parties Hurriyat Conference vice chairman Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar has said that 22 sacred souls of 13 July 1931 and over six hundred thousand martyrs who sacrificed their lives while fighting tyranny and oppression are the real heroes of Kashmiris who will never forget the blood and supreme sacrifices of their martyrs for the freedom cause. Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar in a statement released in Srinagar recalled the martyrs of July 13 and said that no worldly power on earth can defeat this people’s movement nourished by the pure blood of Kashmiri martyrs.
The ongoing struggle is the continuation and sequence of that movement which was started by great martyrs of 13 July 1931, he added. “The best way to pay tributes to the martyrs is to carry on their mission to its logical end.” “The message of July 13 martyrs is loud and clear that martyrdom is better than the curse of slavery and Kashmiris will not only follow the message of their ancestors but also take their great cause and noble mission to the logical end”, he said.
APHC vice chairman appealed to the Kashmiri people to observe a crippling strike on 13 July and conduct a march towards martyr’s graveyard a Khanqah Moala in Srinagar. He also appealed to Kashmiris living in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and elsewhere to organize rallies and seminars to highlight the sacrifices of Kashmiris and salute the martyrs.
“Today when Hindutva elements are trampling everything in Kashmir and are indulged in the annihilation of Kashmiris it is need of the hour to wake up and fight with same passion and resilience as Kashmiris did in 1931,” he emphasized. Following the footsteps of 13 July 1931 martyrs, he said, Kashmiris are writing the new history of bravery, courage and resistance.
“Over one million trigger happy troops are brutalizing Kashmiris and every brutal method is being used to crush the spirit of freedom, but in vain,” he said. APHC vice chairman said that day is not far when Kashmiris will be able to break the shackles of slavery and get rid of Indian bondage. He appealed to the civilized nations to support Kashmiris’ legitimate freedom movement and force India to implement UN resolutions on Kashmir.
On the other hand, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the Kashmiri people have been enslaved by India against their wishes. New Delhi has deprived them of the blessing of freedomand basic human rights. Due to the indifference of the United Nations, the ruling Hindu extremist government in India is now trying to deprive the Kashmiri people even of their identity, the statement said adding that the illegal action of August 5, 2019 was a link in this chain.
Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Chairman Uzair Ahmad Ghazali said that July 13 martyrs sacrificed their lives for freedom from the oppression of Dogra rule. He said that the history of occupied Kashmir is replete with unparalleled and indelible stories of martyrdom. Senior APHC-AJK leader Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement in Islamabad paid rich tributes to the martyrs of July 1931 and said that, the event was a mile stone that changed the outlook of British India about the ruling Hindu dynasty of Kashmir. He said that the basic causes of the 13 July martyrdom of the Kashmiris in Srinagar were rooted in total deprivation of the rights of the Kashmiri Muslims, such as economic, social, humanitarian, but the event before the Central Jail Srinagar was ignited and flared by an in camera trial against Abdul Qadeer, desecration of the Holy Quran and prohibiting Juma Khutba in Jammu.
Rehmani quoted Sir Albion Banerji, then foreign and political minister of the State for 2 years as having said: “J and K is labouring under many disadvantages, with a large Muhammadan population illiterate, labouring under poverty and very low economic conditions of living in the villages and practically governed like dumn-driven cattle…” In short, the Muslims of the State were looked down upon as criminals and the rulers were their law makers, judges and at the same time law enforcement agencies, he added.
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