Muzaffarabad: A forceful anti-India protest demonstration was held in Muzaffarabad, today, on the completion of 31 years to the brutal massacre perpetrated by Indian troops in Sopore town of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the troops of Indian Border Security Force fired indiscriminately in Sopore town on this day in 1993, killing more than 60 innocent people. They also set on fire over 400 shops and residential houses.
A large number of people participated in the demonstration organized by Tehreek-e-Shababul Muslimeen Students Wing at Burhan Wani Chowk in Muzaffarabad. The protesters were holding banners and placards condemning the Sopore massacre and other Indian brutalities in occupied Kashmir.
Addressing the demonstrators, the speakers paid rich tributes to the martyrs of Sopore carnage. They said the massacres like Sopore are proof of Indian state terrorism in occupied Kashmir. They said India is mistaken if it thinks that by massacring the Kashmiris it can force them to give up freedom movement. They said the Kashmiri people are determined to continue their just struggle till it reaches its logical conclusion.
The protesters raised high-pitched slogans against the Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir and in favour of Kashmir’s freedom from Indian illegal occupation.
Meanwhile All Parties Hurriyat Conference expressing serious concern over scores of massacres including the 1993 Sopore massacre committed by Indian troops in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir in the last over three decades has said that the deteriorating situation in the territory warrants an international initiative.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Indian troops of Border Security Force (BSF) had martyred over 60 innocent Kashmiris and torched over 400 shops and residential houses by setting the Sopore town ablaze on this day in 1993.
The APHC leaders their statements issued in Srinagar said that brute Indian occupation forces set the apple town on fire, ruthlessly gunned down many innocent civilians, and destroyed the economic backbone of the occupied territory.
They termed the Kashmiris’ sacrifices as the priceless asset of the ongoing freedom struggle. They demanded an impartial international probe into the Sopor carnage and other such massacres to punish the involved Indian troops.
The leaders and organizations said that hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris had lost their lives in their just struggle for securing freedom from India’s illegal occupation since 1947. The unresolved dispute has been the main reason of the enormous sufferings of the people of Kashmir, they said.
They said that the settlement of the Kashmir dispute is a prerequisite for lasting peace in South Asia.