Curfew was reimposed on Friday in four locale of south Kashmir and Srinagar, while authorities clipped confinements in some different territories of the Valley to obstruct an arranged march by separatists.
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The forum in a statement issued in Srinagar, today, said that people of Kashmir had been facing Indian oppression for the past over two decades. He was killed by Indian troops on July 8.
But at least a dozen civilians were injured in other violent protests across the Kashmir Valley where life remained at a standstill for the 22nd day of curfew and separatist-called shutdown.
As per Kashmir Media Service (KMS) [i] n occupied Kashmir, the activists of Jammu Kashmir Social Peace Forum (JKSPF), a constituent of All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC), visited various hospitals in Srinagar on July 31 to enquire about the health of the injured persons in the recent uprising. They chanted “We want freedom. Go India, Go back”. However, youths regrouped in streets later and clashed with the police, hurling rocks at them.
Fifty people, including 48 civilians and two policemen, have been killed since July 9, a day after the gunning down of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani by the security forces.
In another incident, a video of a masked man surrounded by hundreds of people shouting pro-Kashmiri freedom slogans at a rally in south Kashmir created a stir with many identifying him as Abu Dujan, a top commander of Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Meanwhile, Shops, schools, colleges, business establishments and private offices remained closed while public transport remained off the roads in the Valley which is going through unrest that has left over 50 persons dead and over 5,600 persons injured.
Key separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Omer Farooq and Yasin Malik called for the protest march to the main Jamia Masjid mosque on Friday before the afternoon prayers, and at other places in the Kashmir Valley after the weekly Muslim prayers.
Police took Geelani and Mirwaiz Farooq, who have been under house arrest, into brief preventive custody after they defied the restrictions and came out of their houses to march to the mosque.
In non-curfew areas, authorities banned the assembly of more than four people to prevent protests. Despite it being lifted, clashes between protesters and government forces were seen throughout the city, with the majority of injuries said to be pellet wounds from weapons fired by law enforcement officials.
Police launched into the protesters with tear gas, wooden truncheons and pellet guns, despite a growing scandal over the use of the latter after demonstrators have been blinded.
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According to late evening reports received here, almost 40 persons were injured in clashes at Tahab in Pulwama.
