The senior leader of Hurriyat and president of the Salvation Movement Jammu Cashmira, Altaf Ahmed Bhat, has said that the martyrdom of Burhan Muzaffar Wani marked a turning point in the fight of Kashmir for Freedom, causing a movement of hope, resistance and global attention.
“He used his voice, nonviolence, for the world to listen,” Bhat told a meeting in Mirpur that commemorates the ninth anniversary of Burhan’s martyrdom. “He showed that this struggle is not terrorism … it is a cry of justice rooted in international law.”
Organized by the 1990 refugee families, the event attended high -ranking figures of Hurriyat, lawyers, members of civil society and journalists, where the speakers raised tribute to Burhan Wani and all those who gave their lives for the freedom of Kashmir.
The leader of Hurriyat, Malik Aslam, who also went to the meeting, said that Burhan Wani’s sacrifice has immortalized him in the hearts of the people of Kashmir. Altaf Ahmed Bhat expressed a serious alarm about the health conditions of Kashmir Political detainees in Indian prisons, accusing the Indian government of converting prisons into slow execution tools.
“Shabir Shah is struggling against cancer; Yasin Malik is isolated in lonely confinement; Andrabi suffers from chronic diseases; Zaffar Akbar Bhat, whom he had a cerebral hemorrhage, is denied medical monitoring; and Dr. Abdul Hameed Fayyaz remains sick and neglected behind the bars.”
Bhat described that Ashraf Sehrai and Altof Fantoush’s custody deaths are not accidental, but they were premeditated.
