'Indian forces' have to leave Kashmir: Geelani
Srinagar: There will be no peace in Kashmir until it's “free of Indian forces”, hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani has said.
“Our message of peace is different from the one you in India understand. India thinks control and silence and the absence of violence is peace. When we call for peace, we believe there is no peace until Kashmir is free of Indian forces,” Geelani told CNN-IBN's Suhasini Haider when he was asked why had he on Wednesday urged people in the Valley not to engage in arson and violence like stone pelting.
Geelani was asked if young people in Kashmir will heed his call. “Inshallah, I believe they will because they know me and they know what I say is in the best interest of our movement,” he replied. Geelani insisted he opposed the 'quiet dialogue' Home Minister P Chidambaram held with members of the Hurriyat Conference in December because he was against talks that would have no “outcome”
“I am opposed to dialogue that has no outcome, quiet or public. The dialogue in December had no outcome. The Centre sent me emissaries in Chashmashai jail, and I told them until the government accepts that Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed area, until we see a withdrawal of the Army, until we see laws like AFSPA and TADA go, and the release of our prisoners in jails across the country the atmosphere cannot be built for dialogue.”
Geelani, chief of the hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference, was rearrested on Tuesday as he tried to take out a march from the hospital in Srinagar, where he had been admitted, to the Eidgah grounds. "Violence and acts of arson have no place in our struggle against Indian rule," he said after being released on Wednesday.
Agencies report the violence in Kashmir claimed its 47th victim since June 11 when a civilian on Thursday succumbed to a bullet injury he received during protests in Srinagar on Wednesday.
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