Pulwama civilian killings: It is a ‘strategic genocide’, says KEA

Srinagar: Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) has condemned the Pulwama civilian killings terming it a bloodbath.

In a statement, the KEA chairman Muhammad Yasin Khan said in the garb of AFSPA, the government forces have been “unleashing terror” on innocent Kashmiris and that human rights violations have reached the proportions of war crimes, the government should feel ashamed for its failure to safeguard precious human life, this all suggests a strategic genocide.

“Kashmir dispute has historical background and context which can’t be ignored and dealing with it militarily and adopting a policy that includes killings will not work,” Khan said.

“The systematic killing of people of Kashmir needs an immediate end or that this preprogrammed genocide will backlash in the form of a never before agitation and the onus of which will be on the government and its forces,” Khan added.

Expressing sympathies with the bereaved families, Khan said such killings would only fester Kashmir crises than bring any fruitful results.

Khan appealed the international community to actively contribute towards the solution of Kashmir issue so that sustainable peace is restored in the subcontinent.

Seven civilians were killed after armed forces opened fire on protesters near the site of a gunfight in Kharpora Sarnoo village of Pulwama district today morning. Three militants and an army man were killed in the gunfight.

Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called for a three-day shutdown and mourning in Kashmir and urged people to march towards the army base in Badami Bagh in Srinagar on Monday.

Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah while reacting to the civilian killings had said that it was  ‘another blood soaked weekend in Kashmir’

PDP President Mehbooba Mufti while reacting to the civilian killings has said that there would be no probe which would bring back the dead. She also asked that ‘is this what was expected from the Governor rule’?

She also said that no country can win a war by killing its own people.