Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Umer Khalid, facing charge of sedition, has given a call for standing in solidarity with the "aspirations" of Kashmir's "valiant people", questioning the role of "Indian State" in the recent killing of a youth in the Valley.
"Our silence on Kashmir would make us as much complicit in these killings. And, the curses of the mothers, brothers, fathers, lovers of those lakhs of Kashmiris killed, raped, disappeared, tortured, maimed would in that case be as much be directed at us as at the military establishment. It is high time we break our silence on Kashmir," he stated in a public post on his facebook wall on Thursday evening.
Khalid, who was booked by the Delhi Police for sedition two months ago on accusations of his role in organising an event in the memory of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on the JNU campus which saw raising of anti-national slogans, is out on provisional bail granted by a court here in connection with the case last month.
His remarks come at a time when the Kashmir is on the boil since a young cricketer and three other persons were killed in an incident of firing by security forces in Handwara while locals were protesting accusing a soldier of making a molestation bid on a school girl on Tuesday. Several areas of north Kashmir remained affected by a series of protests and clashes with the security forces in the valley on Friday.
"A young Kashmiri man, an inspiring cricketer, (was) shot down by the Indian Army while his relatives wail around his body. Since a lot has been made out of the slogans that some people allegedly raised in the JNU on 9th Feb (sic), a thought crossed my mind, what would have been the slogans raised in his funeral procession," Khalid said in his facebook post, titled—'Not in my name'.
"Our silence on Kashmir would make us as much complicit in these killings. And, the curses of the mothers, brothers, fathers, lovers of those lakhs of Kashmiris killed, raped, disappeared, tortured, maimed would in that case be as much be directed at us as at the military establishment. It is high time we break our silence on Kashmir," he stated in a public post on his facebook wall on Thursday evening.
Khalid, who was booked by the Delhi Police for sedition two months ago on accusations of his role in organising an event in the memory of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on the JNU campus which saw raising of anti-national slogans, is out on provisional bail granted by a court here in connection with the case last month.
His remarks come at a time when the Kashmir is on the boil since a young cricketer and three other persons were killed in an incident of firing by security forces in Handwara while locals were protesting accusing a soldier of making a molestation bid on a school girl on Tuesday. Several areas of north Kashmir remained affected by a series of protests and clashes with the security forces in the valley on Friday.
"A young Kashmiri man, an inspiring cricketer, (was) shot down by the Indian Army while his relatives wail around his body. Since a lot has been made out of the slogans that some people allegedly raised in the JNU on 9th Feb (sic), a thought crossed my mind, what would have been the slogans raised in his funeral procession," Khalid said in his facebook post, titled—'Not in my name'.