Source: FaceBook, Date: 5th August 2010. Transcript of a Press Conference
“This is a painful appeal that I want to make to my oppressed nation,
especially to the young people.
If they are impatient to see that this movement reaches its logical
goal, then we are even more impatient to see this struggle reach that
end.
That is why I want to appeal to people that they act according to our
advice and suggestions.
In no circumstances should they act outside of our suggestions and
direction.
I want to assure them, and give guarantees, that if you follow these
suggestions, we will be able to achieve our purpose, and liberate our
nation from Indian military occupation.
It is important that people trust us, and we trust the people. And the
result of that trust should be that they must act according to the
directions that reach them from us.
Now it is easy to understand, and please try to understand this, till
now the people who have been martyred, and it is only our people who
have been martyred, almost 50 of them, till yesterday there were 44, and
today there are 6 more, these are our people. They include women,
children—children of fragile age, the blossoming buds. These
un-blossomed flowers have been crushed.
You must see that no CRPF or a
policeman has been killed in return. They may get injured, but none of
them was killed.
We have to see that through our own actions, we are harming ourselves.
It is not harming those against whom we are struggling, against whose
forced occupation we are fighting. If we are harming ourselves, and not
them, must we not reflect on this? We must coolly think about this, and
understand, that we have to carry forward our movement peacefully.
I hope, wish, and would want that people should, in letter and spirit,
act on this: that wherever peaceful demonstrations are stopped, people
must sit down, and tell them to shoot if they can, tell them we will
wait for their bullets with our chests bare. This should be the way we
act.
Burnings and laying siege has no part to play in our movement. It will
only hurt our movement. Some people burn government offices or damage
railway stations, or do other destructive actions; they might just be
reactions, against Indian coercion, against India’s military assault,
against merciless murder and mayhem that India has launched. But even in
reaction, we must take care not to hurt our fundamental principle.
Even our reaction must be honorable.
In every situation our actions must reflect who we are as a people. We
are oppressed. We are not like the oppressors. And we must bring out,
and underline this oppression that has been inflicted upon us.
And this
struggle should demonstrate our moral conduct and its superiority over
brute force.
The world must know that our conduct is good, that we treat our
non-Muslim brothers well and with respect. Some person has cut hair of a
Sikh son. It has absolutely no connection with out movement.
Our
movement is not communalistic.
We are fighting for a cause, a pious cause. I have said it repeatedly
that I see my work in this movement as a pious effort. That I speak to
you now I see as a work of piety. That I spend time in jail is a matter
of faithful devotion. This cause is so sacred that every step I take,
every word I say, and every word I write, is a matter of worship for me.
Allah considers actions in the way of this pious cause as holy prayer.
For me then this whole movement is a matter of worship, where I am
playing my own role as a worshipper.
That is why I want to sincerely implore our young people to consider the
movement as worship, and carry it forward like one. And if we do that
Allah will help us carry our movement to its logical end.
I pay tribute, from the depths of my heart, to all those who have been
martyred. I pray to Allah that their sacrifice be accepted, and in lieu
of their sacrifice may He liberate us from this oppression and tyranny.
And those who are wounded and are lying in the hospitals may Allah heal
them and give them a new life; may Allah give patience to their
relatives who are suffering as well.
To carry this struggle forward with moral character may we all stand
unite and speak with one voice. The entire nation has demonstrated
mutual trust, and declared resoundingly that we stand united. People
have supported whole-heartedly the Hurriyat Conference program. We thank
them very much. We thank the Traders Federation, the employees, the
workers, the women, and everyone else, who has supported our program,
and sacrificed for the movement. They have sacrificed with their lives
and wealth.
We hear from newspaper reports of how CRPF and the police
barge into houses, break windows, molest women. This is an old saga of
oppression, which the Indian government is repeating in Kashmir.
We must let India know that this oppression is not going to be useful to
them in any way. They will have to, sooner or later, lift this
oppression. We will liberate ourselves from their military occupation.”
We will snatch freedom from India.
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