At militant's funeral, Geelani talks about ‘mission of martyrs’

Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani today called for boycott of elections, including the next year’s Parliamentary and Legislative Assembly elections.

Geelani was telephonically addressing the gathering at a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant’s funeral at Palhalan village of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.

He said, “The mission of martyrs is to end military occupation and replace the unjust system with a just system.” Geelani, like other separatists, terms the presence of the Army and paramilitary forces in the Kashmir region as “military occupation” and considers the slain militants as "martyrs".

“It is your responsibility to continue the mission of martyrs and to remain loyal to it. The mission is to end the military occupation and usher in a just and honest system instead of the system which is based on barbarity and oppression.”





The funeral ceremony was that of LeT militant Shabir Ahmad Sheikh, who, his father said, had gone "underground to become a militant five months and 18 days ago. Sheikh (30), previously a shopkeeper at his native village, was killed on Thursday in an orchard near Sopore town of north Kashmir.

The police and paramilitary personnel sealed the entrance to the village, shops remained shut and a partial shutdown was also observed at the nearby Pattan market to mourn the militant's death. “We should take a pledge to boycott elections. Casting of vote is to support oppression,” he said, claiming there is “no difference” between political parties and individuals who are participating in elections.

The Hurriyat hardliner’s previous appeals for boycott of election have failed to evoke a massive response.

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