SRINAGAR: Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over have been marking the Kashmir Martyrs’ Day on Thursday (today) to pay homage to the July 13, 1931, and all other Kashmiri martyrs.
According to the details, there is a complete shutdown in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) and other freedom movement workers will march towards the Martyrs’ Graveyard at Naqashband Sahib in Srinagar.
Call for observance of the day has been given by the APHC and supported by all pro-freedom leaders and organisations.
The APHC in a statement issued here urged people to make call for shutdown and march a success to send a strong message to the world that the people of Jammu and Kashmir believe in peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute under the UN resolutions and are not ready to accept Indian subjugation, at any cost.
Rallies, seminars and conferences will be held in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and all major capitals of the world to pay tributes to the Kashmiri martyrs.
On 13th July 1931, the troops of Dogra Maharaja had killed 22 Kashmiris, one after another, outside Central Jail in Srinagar during the court proceedings against one Abdul Qadeer who had asked the Kashmiri people to defy the despotic Dogra rule. At the time of Namaz-e-Zuhr, a young man started calling Azaan and was shot dead by the Dogra soldiers. Another youth took his place and he too was martyred by the troops. Thus, 22 youth sacrificed their lives till the completion of Azaan.
LEADERS’ MESSAGES
Meanwhile, illegally detained APHC Chairman, Masarrat Alam Butt, in his message from New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail, describing the incident as an important event in the history of Jammu and Kashmir, maintained that the Kashmiri people have been rendering sacrifices to get rid of oppression for the past 92 years.
He said history stands witness to the reality that the Kashmiris have always resisted the oppression. The young Kashmiris, following in the footsteps of the martyrs of July 13, are laying down their lives and keeping the candle of freedom burning.
The APHC Chairman said, the martyrs raised their voice against the Dogra imperialism and shed their holy blood to give the message that Kashmiri people do not accept slavery. The Dogra imperialism finally ended and just like that the Brahmin imperialism will also die its death.
He pointed out that the blood of the nations engaged in the struggle against the tyrant has never been lost and the struggling Kashmiris will also see the realization of their dream of freedom.
Masarrat Alam praised the courage and bravery of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and said history is a testimony to the fact that in every region of the world, forced and illegitimate foreign occupation has ended eventually.
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