The ongoing public movement organized by the Joint Public Action Committee in Pakistan-administered Kashmir is facing a complete strike, blockade and severe state crackdown for the second consecutive month.
During this situation, Joint Public Action Committee leader Omar Nazir Kashmiri, while addressing a public gathering, has alleged that the Pakistan Army and security forces are trying to defame the peaceful movement and the Action Committee by deploying their armed personnel in plain clothes among the unarmed protesters.
The leaders of the Public Action Committee revealed that the forces are planting armed personnel in plain clothes among the protesters in the guise of civilians, who open fire from inside and kill unarmed civilians. Later, scenes with the covered faces of these armed persons are filmed with drone cameras to propagate that the protesters are armed and are firing on the forces.
There are several videos on social media in which plainclothes armed men can be seen brandishing their weapons and firing at unarmed protesters in front of the forces.
The leaders said that fearing the peaceful movement, they are trying to justify further violence by proving it to be armed and accusing it of “Indian funding”.
They warned that just as local armed groups, i.e. “state death squads”, are being formed in Balochistan to kill and forcibly disappear political activists, the same strategy is now being tried to be repeated in Kashmir.
According to sources, the state has been completely shut down for the last two months and is under a tight siege by the army. The operations and blockade by the forces have created a serious situation.
Over 50 unarmed protesters have been killed by direct fire by the forces in the last two months.
Thousands of people have been arrested and hundreds have been forcibly disappeared as a result of the army’s massive crackdown.
The movement of medicines, food and daily necessities has been completely blocked, leading to a humanitarian crisis.
Despite the government’s ban on the People’s Action Committee and all the stringent measures, the people’s movement has not stopped. Despite the severe siege, a large number of ordinary citizens, including women, children and the elderly, have been taking to the streets side by side for the past two months to peacefully protest against their rights and injustices.
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