Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Muhammad Yasin Malik along with zonal president Noor Muhammad Kalwal have been arrested at Reban Shopian this morning.JKLF chairman had gone to Reban to meet innocent children of incarcerated Moulana Sarjan Barkati who is languishing in jail despite several court orders to release him.According to a statement issued to KNS, JKLF chairman early morning today reached Reban and visited the family of incarcerated Barkati. He enquired about his innocent children and expressed solidarity with them.After meeting this victim family JKLF chairman was moving back towards Srinagar but as soon he stepped out of the house of Moulana Barkati thousands of CRPF men along with police cordoned the whole area and laid a siege around him and arrested him along with Noor Muhammad Kalwal and shifted them to police station Sangam. The crackdown and siege was such as if forces were apprehending any armed rebel. While condemning this police highhandedness in strong terms, JKLF incarcerated chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik said that he was only visiting a family whose only bread earner has been put behind bars by the so-called largest democracy and who is not being released despite repeated court orders.
He said that Moulana Sarjan Barkati is a religious preacher who along with other people participated in peaceful protests against killing spree but occupational authorities are so afraid of his peaceful activities that they consider him a big threat and despite repeated court orders to release him, he is not being released and hence he and his poor family are suffering at the hands of callous rulers. He said that after meeting Barkati’sminor children and consoling them, he was moving back towards Srinagar but as soon as he stepped out of the residence of Moulana Barkati he found himself besieged by thousands of police and CRPF men who were posing as if they had to apprehend some armed rebel. Castigating so-called rulers for this undemocratic and unholy attitude, JKLF chairman said that such is the level of suppression in Jammu Kashmir that visiting a victim family is labeled as a crime and thus banned. He said that so-called biggest democracy and its petty propagators in Jammu Kashmir have suppressed the voices of thousands by incarcerating them under black laws and occupational forces especially police is using every illegal and undemocratic tactic to prolong their incarceration.
JKLF chairman said that jails and police stations are filled with students, resistance lovers and other people. Families of these inmates are also being terrorized and humiliated by police and hence these people are being pushed to the wall and left with no peaceful political means to raise their voices.He said that this is an old ploy of occupation which used to subject peaceful youth and their families to same treatment prior to 1988 and which resulted in an armed revolution in 1990’s. JKLF chairman said that on one hand even meeting victim families is banned and on the other hand we are being taught high moral lessons of democracy and peace by the same so-called rulers. This is utter hypocrisy and brazen shamelessness of these so-called rulers who for their lust of power have trampled every bit of decency and democracy in Kashmir, added Yasin Malik.Stressing the need of intervention by the international community, JKLF chairman said that democracy and humanity is being severely trampled in Jammu Kashmir and it is the duty of International community and human rights organizations to safeguard these human values and rise above its petty economic considerations, shunits criminal silence regarding Kashmir and persuade India to stop subjecting people of Kashmir to state sponsored terrorism. (KNS)