Sriinagar, August 24 (Scoop News) – The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Mohammad Umar Farooq has strongly condemned Crackdown operations and continious arrests of children and teenagers and termed it as Nazi tactics .
In a stastement issued to press,Mirwaiz has expressed deep concern and anguish regarding the safety and vulnerability of children in custody.
He said in a statement that on one hand a large number of youngsters which include nine and ten year old are being brutally killed. More insidiously the security apparatus is indiscriminately picking up hundreds of innocent children. While in custody all attempts are made to brutalize their young consciousness and coerce them into submission. These young boys are beaten and tortured in custody and their families harassed and intimidated.
They have to pay large sums of money to the police in order to secure the safety and release of their innocent children. It is unfortunate, and a harsh reminder of the so called counter terrorist tactics used by the security establishment during the 90’s to infiltrate our society and brutalize our youth by making them into informers and renegades, the affects of which have deeply scarred Kashmir, the Mirwaiz said
In a statement he has appealed to the media and civil society to be vigilant in identifying these practices which are causing untold suffering to people as well as endangers our present and future social fabric. The authorities should put a stop to these nefarious practices and rather than arresting children they shoud take action against those who are Shooting and killing at will, he further said.
The Mirwaiz demanded immediately release of these innocent boys and asked for immediate steps to ensure that our children will not be mistreated and brutalized.