Senior Hurriyat leader and chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Salvation Movement, Altaf Ahmed Bhat, has said that Burhan Muzaffar Wani’s martyrdom marked a turning point in the Kashmiri struggle for freedom, triggers a movement of hope, resilience and global attention.
“He used his voice, not violence, to make the world listen,” Bhat told a collection in Mirpur, where he remembers Burhan’s 9th martyrdom. “He showed that this struggle is not terrorism … It’s a cry for justice that is rooted in international law.”
Organized by refugee families from 1990, the event was attended by senior Hurriyat numbers, lawyers, civil society members and journalists, where speakers paid tribute to Rich tribute to Burhan Wani and all those who laid their lives for Kashmir’s freedom.
Senior Hurriyat leader Malik Aslam, who also approached the collection, said that Burhan Wani’s victim has immortalized him in the hearts of Kashmiri. Altaf Ahmed Bhat expressed a serious alarm over health conditions for Kashmiri -politically imprisoned in Indian prisons and accused the Indian government of transforming prisons into tools for slow execution.
“Shabir Shah fights against cancer; Yasin Malik is isolated in lonely inclusion; Asiya Andrabi suffers from chronic illness; Zaffar Akbar Bhat, who had a brain haemorrhage, refused medical surveillance; and Dr. Abdul Hameed Fayyaz remains ill and unnecessary behind bars.”
Bhat described the custody of Ashraf Sehrai and Altaf Fantaf Fantaf as not unintentional, but overlooked.
