Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani Monday strongly condemned the “forced occupation” of the 150-year-old Muslims’ graveyard land in Bagh Jogian village in Bishnah tehsil of the Jammu district by the “goons of the RSS”.
Caretakers of a temple in Bishnah have planned to start ‘Dangal’ (a sports activity) on the graveyard land, infuriating the local Muslims.
“They (Kashmiri Muslims will not leave their Jammu brethren to suffer at the hands of the communal and fascist forces,” said Geelani.
“Instead of providing justice to the Muslims, the police high command is covertly helping the RSS goons in their filthy acts due to which the Muslim population of the area are feeling very unsafe there.
A process of anti-Muslim activities has been started in every Muslim locality from Kishtwar to Ramban, Udhampur, and Poonch and somewhere the Muslims are rendered homeless on the name of vacating the forest land and somewhere attempts are made to forcibly construct the temples on the Muslim lands,” Geelani alleged.
“Besides the activists and workers of RSS, BJP and Shiv Sena, the armed VDC terrorists are harassing the Muslims everywhere in the Jammu division and they are being forced for another mass migration.”
Since the inception of the BJP-PDP coalition government in the state, “the communal and fascist forces are treating the Jammu division as their conquered area and they are preparing to repeat another 47 there,” said the Hurriyat (G) chairman.
“The Muslims of Jammu division are not only threatened and harassed by the communal goons but a strong and planned anti-Muslim process has been launched at the government level too.”
Civil administration, judiciary, bureaucracy, revenue department and police have formally started a genocide process in the area and the Muslim officers are being removed from the key posts and these posts are filled with the RSS minded people,” Geelani claimed.