A radical Islamic women’s group in Jammu and Kashmir has called for social boycott of local policemen accusing them of working as a tool in effecting “genocide” of the state’s Muslim youth.
The “diktat” follows the death of 18-year-old Srinagar student Tufail Ahmed Mattoo blamed by residents on the police but termed “mysterious” by the authorities.
“India is indulging in target killings of the Kashmiri Muslim youth in their prime age exactly the way Pharaohs would do to the children of Israel. This was but expected from the occupation Indian armed forces and it would be silly to hope for good from them. What is, however, unfortunate is that the Jammu and Kashmir policemen too are indulging in target killing of our youth mainly in the 13-20 age group,” a statement from Sayeda Aasiya Andrabi, the chief of Dukhtaran-e-Millat or daughters of the faith, issued here on Saturday alleged.
It added, “They should know that after all they are the inhabitants of this land.”