Kashmir Liberation Cell organizes rally in Rawalpindi to remember Afzal Guru
Rawalpindi: A rally was organized at Chandni Chowk in Rawalpindi, today, by Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Cell to pay tributes to prominent Kashmiri leaders Muhammad Afzal Guru and Muhammad Maqbool Butt on their martyrdom anniversaries.
According to Kashmir Media Service, India had hanged Muhammad Afzal Guru in New Delhi’s Tihar Jail on this day in 2013 and sent prominent liberation leader, Muhammad Maqbool Butt, to the gallows in the same jail on February 11, 1984. Their bodies were buried in the premises of the jail.
The speakers addressing the rally said both the martyred leaders are great heroes of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and India should immediately hand over their bodies to the Kashmiris for proper burial. They said the sacrifices of Kashmiri martyrs are a ray of hope for Kashmiris struggling for right to self-determination. They said bodies of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Butt, buried in the premises of the prison instead of handing over to their families, is a manifestation of the worst form of Hindu extremism.
The speakers said the history of the Indian judiciary is full of anti-Kashmir decisions. They added that such unfair decisions like the way the Indian judiciary had executed Afzal Guru would have created new enthusiasm and excitement in the Kashmir liberation movement.
They said India cannot enslave the oppressed Kashmiris through persecution and the international community must force New Delhi to immediately stop the serious violations of human rights in occupied Kashmir and give the Kashmiris their birthright to self-determination.
The speakers further said that the Supreme Court of India clearly wrote in its decision that the charges against Afzal Guru could not be proven, but to satisfy the collective conscience of the people of India, he is being sentenced to death. They said there is no example of this kind of judicial killing in the world.
They said the decision of the Supreme Court of India regarding Afzal Guru is the worst example of appeasing the extremist mentality and extremist conscience of Indians. His only fault was that he fought for Kashmiris’ internationally recognized right to self-determination, which is the birthright of every Kashmiri, they maintained.
The speakers included Raja Khan Afsar Khan, Sardar Sajid Mehmood, Sardar Azeem Sarwar, Najeeb Al-Ghfoor Khan, Raja Rashid Raza and Rauf Ahmed Sabri.
