Hurriyat expresses solidarity with Chattisinghpora victims

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, March 20

Expressing solidarity with the Chattisinghpora massacre victims, All parties Hurriyat Conference said despite a passage of more than 18 years, neither the culprits behind this tragic incident had been punished nor justice had been delivered to the bereaved families.

“Even after the passage of 18 long years of the Chattisinghpora massacre, justice eludes the 35 families whose members were killed in the incident,” Hurriyat said in a statement on Tuesday, marking the 18th anniversary of the gruesome killing of the Sikhs at Chattisinghpora in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on March 20, 2000.

“Like other dozens of massacres committed by the government forces, the Centre and also the state’s dispensation continues to adopt a criminal silence even as guilty are roaming free,” the amalgam said while expressing “solidarity and sympathy” with the bereaved families.

The Hurriyat said the announcement of probes by the government had always been used as a ploy to calm the tempers of people and to buy time, adding that not a single probe ordered by the successive regimes so far had reached a conclusion, let alone punishing the guilty.