KCSDS condemns media gag

5 Dariya News

Srinagar 03-Oct-2016

KCSDS strongly condemns the govt dictat to printing presses to stop printing and publication of Kashmir Reader failing which punitive action will be taken against them. The order, issued by district magistrate Srinagar, says that publication of the said paper can “ easily incite acts of violence and disturb peace and tranquillity”. This view the order further says  is based on credible inputs  that it contains  material and content which tends to incite acts of violence and disturb public peace and tranquillity. Without giving any credible evidence of the allegation the govt is actually  gagging the voice of the people. The paper to our knowledge put before public the well researched and indepth analysis and verified each and every detail of the violations of human rights and the protest demonstrations that were held in the last 86 days in the length and breadth of the state. It truthfully and faithfully covered all the happenings in a professional manner.

It was this paper which for the first time reported from the ground  zero of Damhal Hanjipora of what had actually happened which led to the public attack on  the  very small police station after the police had brutally  killed Yasmeena while she was trying to save her brother from their clutches. The allegation of incitement to violence is a mere excuse  to throttle the public voice which spoke through this paper and many others. This is a covert warning to other largely circulated papers to fall in line  and avoid telling the truth of the current situation. It has never published any such material that could disturb peace. The cruel irony is that what peace  and tranquillity  is there in Kashmir that it could disturb! The govt having miserably failed to respond to  the public  uprising through civilized and democratic methods is squeezing every space and every institution and inflicting all kinds of cruelties on public to impose the peace of graveyard It is a direct attack on freedom of speech and expression along with other invasions on people’s rights and their properties. 

The killings and blindings have not satiated the blood thirsty govt  forces  and have now arrested over 8000 youth to quell the uprising whose relatives are  made to go from pillar to post  to locate their dear ones at a huge cost. The govt has simply declared war on  her “ so called own people” The latest  war crime committed against them is the destruction of their food grains and horticultural produce which provides them sustenance. By destroying their means of livelihood state govt has touched the nadir of depravity and crossed all limits.KCSDS demands the immediate restoration of the publication of Kashmir Reader, the release of all the detained youth and  an immediate end  to the deliberate  destruction the  apple  and paddy  produce that people have  cultivated with sweat and blood to  sustain themselves. We warn othen the govt of the day to stop  such tyrannical acts to restore her writ in the state as this would only add to the already  accumulated  fury, hatred and utter disdain for the govt and her agencies. (CNS)