SRINAGAR – In occupied Kashmir, the Joint Resistance Leadership comprisingSyed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik stronglycondemning the policy of killing and repression adopted by India in theterritory has termed the ongoing bloodshed by Indian troops as systematicgenocide of Kashmiris.

In a statement in Srinagar, the Joint Resistance Leadership said theKashmiri people has nourished their ongoing just freedom struggle with theblood of lacs of martyrs.

It said that India’s attempt to compel the Kashmiris through the use ofbrute force to give up their freedom movement would only furtherdeteriorate the already deteriorated situation in the occupied territory.

The JRL paying glowing tributes to the six youth martyred by Indian troopsin Tral area of Pulwama, yesterday, said that the mission of Kashmirimartyrs would be accomplished despite all odds.

Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Syed Ali Gilani in a statementin Srinagar strongly condemned the recent remarks of Indian Home Ministerthat the resistance leaders use every opportunity to provoke the masses andincite anti-India sentiment.

He said such childish utterances from Indian rulers can never cement theirforced occupation over Jammu and Kashmir.

Senior APHC leader, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, in a statement in Srinagarurged the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to send a commission toprobe the human rights violations by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir asrecommended by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad AlHussein, earlier this year.

Meanwhile, on the call of the Joint Resistance Leadership, people offeredfuneral prayers in absentia, today, at Hyderpora, Soura, Nowshera, NawaKadal, Khaniyar in Srinagar and in other areas of the occupied territoryfor the six youth martyred by the Indian troops in Tral, yesterday.