[Reader-list] Hurriyat leader was murdered, not killed by police-TOI

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Rashneek,

The Aran Dhati Roy Fan Club on Sarai; won't buy this theory sadly. They just
love bashing security forces; even if while acting blind.

God Bless them...

Aditya




On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:10 AM, rashneek kher <rashneek at gmail.com> wrote:

> NEW DELHI: Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz, whose shooting during the
> "LoC
> march" organized by Kashmir separatists on August 11 gave an explosive turn
> to the agitation, was not killed by a police or army bullet.
>
> In a shocking revelation, national security adviser M K Narayanan told the
> Union Cabinet on Thursday that it was not at all clear who had fired the
> fatal bullet at Aziz, a former Al Jehad leader who was part of the march on
> the Srinagar-Muzzaffarabad highway.
>
> The NSA also pointed out that there were many rivalries at work in the
> Kashmir Valley.
>
> Narayanan was responding to a question by Union steel minister Ramvilas
> Paswan, who pointed out that it was rather unusual for a leader to be
> killed
> in police action. Typically, leaders in such situations are surrounded by
> workers and never directly exposed in an incident of the sort that took
> place as the marchers approached Uri.
>
> Also, at the first signs of tough action, the leaders were whisked away
> with
> some help of the local cop always mindful of their stature.
>
> Narayanan said that investigations have established that the bullets which
> felled the separatist leader were not fired by security forces.
>
> NSA disclosure points to Pak hand in unrest
>
> The disturbing disclosure ties in with the suspicion that Pakistan-backed
> separatists have been stoking passion to put their agenda back on
> centrestage.
>
> Importantly, Pakistan-backed elements have organised assassinations and
> then
> blame these on India to further their interests, killings of Mirwaiz Omar
> Farooq's father and Abdul Ghani Lone being the two cases in point.
>
> Also, Hurriyat leaders remain bitterly divided, with all the unity efforts
> coming unstuck after temporary truces.
>
> There are no clear accounts of the situation prevailing during the move to
> transport trucks carrying fruits across the LoC but the death of Aziz and
> other civilians became a rallying point for separatists and lead anti-India
> groups abroad to condemn Indian "state repression."
>  The separatists seized on the Amarnath land-for-pilgrims plan as an
> emotive
> issue to fire up sentiments over "demographic" change by way of "Hindu"
> settlements in the Valley, the march was aimed to stir up the Valley to
> slogans like "apni mandi, Rawalpindi."
>
> Aziz's death only helped stir opinion in the Valley, proving to be a
> catalyst which turned an agitation against an "economic blockade" of the
> Valley into a full-throated cry for "azadi."
>
> --
> Rashneek Kher
> Wandhama Massacre-The Forgotten Human Tragedy
> http://www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com
> http://www.nietzschereborn.blogspot.com
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