Srinagar : In the first such admission by a separatist leader in the state, top Hurriyat leader Prof Abdul Ghani Bhat said here today that Abdul Ghani Lone and Maulvi Farooq weren’t killed by government forces but “their own people”.
“Time has come to speak the truth. Neither the Army nor the police killed Lone sahib and Maulvi Farooq sahib but our own people,” Bhat said while addressing a seminar on the role of intellectuals in the separatist movement. Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the son of Maulvi Farooq, didn’t contradict Bhat in his subsequent speech, and neither did Bilal Lone, the son of Abdul Ghani Lone.
“This movement started with the assassinations of thinkers and the people who held an opinion,” Bhat said, adding that if the separatist movement had to get anywhere, its leaders in the state needed to take into account their own follies.
(Courtesy : www.indianexpress.com)
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