Anti-India demo held in Muzaffarabad on Sopore massacre’s anniversary
Muzaffarabad: A forceful anti-India protest demonstration was held in Muzaffarabad, today, on the completion of 31 years to the brutal massacre perpetrated by Indian troops in Sopore town of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the troops of Indian Border Security Force fired indiscriminately in Sopore town on this day in 1993, killing more than 60 innocent people. They also set on fire over 400 shops and residential houses.
A large number of people participated in the demonstration organized by Tehreek-e-Shababul Muslimeen Students Wing at Burhan Wani Chowk in Muzaffarabad. The protesters were holding banners and placards condemning the Sopore massacre and other Indian brutalities in occupied Kashmir.
Addressing the demonstrators, the speakers paid rich tributes to the martyrs of Sopore carnage. They said the massacres like Sopore are proof of Indian state terrorism in occupied Kashmir. They said India is mistaken if it thinks that by massacring the Kashmiris it can force them to give up freedom movement. They said the Kashmiri people are determined to continue their just struggle till it reaches its logical conclusion.
The protesters raised high-pitched slogans against the Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir and in favour of Kashmir’s freedom from Indian illegal occupation.
The demonstration was attended among others by Tehreek-e-Shababul Muslimeen Students Wing Chairman Riaz Ahmed Awan, Pakistan Peoples Party Azad Jammu and Kashmir leader Shaukat Javed Mir, Director Kashmir Cultural Academy Faizan Arif Mughal, district council member Ali Raza Sabzwari, Chairman Union Council Muzaffarabad Iqbal Yasin Awan, Allama Lal Deen Durrani, Saddique Dawood, Ishtiaq Liaqat Awan, Engineer Javed Mir, Naseer Mir, Munir Konshi, Zubair Durrani, Faizullah Durrani, Aamir Abbasi, Quddus Mughal, Imtiaz Awan, Arshad Awan, Khawaja Khurram, Aamir Abbasi and Zeeshan Chaudhry.
