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Gool inquiry heading Shopian way: Mehbooba

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 7/29/2013 11:57:32 PM

SRINAGAR, July 29: Describing Chief Minister’s latest remarks on Gool killings in which he held a local religious leader responsible for the trouble the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) today said it is an attempt to repeat the Shopian farce in the name of an inquiry.
Speaking here today after a visit to the SKIMS where she visited a number of victims of government violence the party president Mehbooba Mufti said the present coalition has pushed the state into a virtual anarchy where every individual faces a threat for one or the other reason.
Mehbooba said the Chief Minister’s comments on Gool are not just irresponsible but are a deliberate attempt to shield the guilty. She said it reminded one of the sequence of events in the Shopian tragedy where the death of the two unfortunate women was ultimately closed as a case of drowning and prosecution launched against lawyers, doctors and those who sought justice against the deceased. “ One fears a similar course of events is being followed in the Gool killings which might ultimately end up in action against the victims”, said Mehbooba. She said people who protested killings and demanded justice are already being harassed and persecuted. In the entire Chenab Valley police is raiding the houses of people who participated in the protests, filing cases against them and arresting them. One hopes that the killings are not attributed ultimately to wild animals and people like the local Imams prosecuted for the atrocities committed by the men in uniform, added Mehbooba.
Mehbooba said there are tell tale signs of anarchy in the entire state. A teen aged girl was gang raped in Kishtwar and in all likelihood the chief minister might issue a clean chit even to the perpetrators of that heinous crime. She said in 2010 when 120 young people were killed during peaceful demonstrations against innocent killings Omar Abdullah presented perverted theories beginning with the initial version about Tufail Matoo that he was victim of some personal rivalry. Later all the victims were projected as anti national agents, paid hoodlums and even drug addicts. “An entire generation was painted black and Kashmiris presented to the world as a species different from human beings and victims of misrule referred in routine as ‘stone pelters’,” she said.
The PDP president said the rampant killings by government forces and simultaneous appearance of the ‘Unidentified gunman’ have been the hallmark of all governments run by NC. That is happening now also with innocent common people, policemen, security personnel and Panchayat members becoming victims in a relapse of the disastrous NC rule between 1996 and 2002.
Accompanied by the party leaders Tariq Hameed Karra and Syed Basharat Bukhari MLA Sangrama, Mehbooba inquired about the health of the Sarpanch Khazir Mohammad of Krankshivan Sopore who was seriously injured in an attack on him by an unidentified gunman. He needs a reconstruction surgery of a major portion of his face that was damaged by bullets. She also went to see Jan Mohamamd from Noorbagh in the Eidgah area who was allegedly pushed by police personnel from first floor of his house. Jan Mohammad the only earning hand for his poor family who worked as a labourer has been disabled because of serious damage to his spine.