Is it also a reason unity isn’t possible in Hurriyat?
Syed Munaza
Srinagar: There is no denial in the fact that the resistance leadership in Kashmir has a same cause-the end to the Indian occupation–but why there are selective mournings hat too over the killings or deaths of great leaders of the soil.
May 21 is one of the blackest days in the history of Kashmir. It is the day when Kashmir’s two top leaders Mirwaiz Moulana Farooq was killed and a decade later another great leader Khwaja Abdul Gani Lone was silenced. The killers, many in Hurriyat claim were our own, silenced two visionaries of the Kashmir movement creating a gap that time has proved is still unfilled.
Along with Mirwaiz Farooq over 65 people were killed by forces when they showered bullets on his funeral procession at Hawal in Old city of Srinagar.
Over the years, the ups and downs the movement has seen, these two great leaders were missed- be it during the Amarnath Land row in 2008 or a massive mass agitation in 2010.
For one faction of the Hurriyat led by Mirwaiz, this week till May 21 is observed as the Hafta-e-Shahdah (week of martyrs). Mirwaiz led Hurriyat holds rallies, seminars, naat competitions and other means to pay rich tributes to these slain leaders. Sea of people participate in the prayers to commemorate the deaths of these two sons of the soil.
But, it is very interesting to note that various other top hurriyat leaders didn’t even utter a single word to pay tributes to these two leaders.
The people of Kashmir who have given countless sacrifices for the ongoing freedom movement have a one simple question to the whole resistance leadership over the confusion- why there is a confusion and selective approach when it comes to pay homage and honour to the people who laid their lives in the line of freedom movement.