ISLAMABAD: (APP) The massive outpouring of support for top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in the form of funeral processions and protests have prompted the authorities to continue to impose restrictions on internet service and public movement.
According to KMS, the defiant public is responding by scribbling walls and public places with pro-Burhan graffiti.
At Lal Chowk, the centre of Srinagar city, graffiti reading `Burhan still in our hearts. Burhan still alive', `Leader of resistance, Burhan' and `Burhan our hero' have been written on walls.At the SHMS hospital, where most of the injured are being brought from rural areas, a message outside the medical emergency reads, `Burhan aap shaheed huway, hamae kis kae saharae choda? (Burhan you became a martyr, you have left us alone?). Two other graffiti in English read `Today we mourn, lion is no more' and `Burhan always in our heart.'
Although pro-resistance graffiti dot the Valley, pro-Burhan messages appeared in the backdrop of the regime's clampdown on internet and mobile phone services.
"We want to make it loud and clear to the Indian state that we want freedom. We will use whatever avenues we have to manifest it. State's restriction won't stop us anyway. This resistance will continue until the dawn of freedom.
The resistance will continue through Facebook, stones and guns," said Abdul Mannan, a protestor who wrote some of these messages.
Anger is palpable among the youth against the reporting by Indian news channels that tried to counter pro-Burhan uprising, one way or another.
"You all report a lie. You either tamper with our given statements or portray it in a way that suits India. Tell me how was Burhan the terrorist? Is fighting against zulm (oppression) a sin," a youth said to reporters at the hospital.