Sacking govt employees over protests a revengeful, inhuman act: Hurriyat (G)

With the J&K government terminating 12 employees for allegedly participating in street protests, the Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Geelani on Friday said the act was “revengeful and inhuman.”
In a statement here, the Hurriyat (G) said it is “most unfortunate and undemocratic to punish employees just for raising their voice against atrocities on people.”

“Every day, the present regime is coming out with ridiculous and irresponsible verdicts, making themselves a laughing stock. Employees are part and parcel of our society and how can they be aloof and silent to the happenings around them? Every Kashmiri is not a sold commodity (sic) as the stooges are, so how can anybody expect them to shut their eyes and plug their ears on the scourge in their vicinity?” a spokesperson of the Hurriyat said in the statement.
“Everybody has a moral right to raise his voice against the excesses and if employees have stood against the tyranny and vandalism by the state machinery, they have not violated any law. Employment is not any favor by Delhi government or their local henchmen and as long as India continues to forcibly control our land, we have no option than to serve in our respective fields,” he said.
“But at the same time, we can’t mortgage our conscience for the jobs. In our society, traitors and bargainers of our emotions and aspirations are only that class of collaborators who, for the last 70 years, have exploited our innocence, weaknesses and helplessness, by thriving and flourishing on not only our blood but our honor as well and as a nation we will continue to fight the aggressor with brave hearts,” the spokesperson said.

“Our bureaucratic class slaps draconian laws like PSA on people aged 14 to 86 years and termination orders (have been issued) at the behest of biased administration, especially police, without applying their own mind. These bureaucrats are known to be highly educated class of the society, but after assuming higher official positions they lose their sanity and social sensitivity and are recognized only as the yes-men of their higher ups,” he said.
“It is surprising that police accuse these employees of having participated in protests and stoning the so-called security forces, but it is ironical that those who killed 94 people, blinded about 250 innocents and injured more than 15000 are roaming freely. Can these high officials ever satisfy or question their own conscience why those responsible for these widespread killings, maiming and harming the masses are being patronized, encouraged and even rewarded and why guns, bullets, pellets, lathies, abuses, PSAs and terminations are for this ill-fated community,” he said.
Elaborating, the spokesperson said: “Let these people at the helm of affairs be conveyed in loud and clear terms that there is a court higher than the judiciary and that is the court of conscience and they all need to be accountable to it. We may not be in a position to question or put them to task, but there is a super power Hereafter where there is no security, no seniority, no political shield and no judicial impunity, and where every soul has to be answerable,” the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, the spokesman said police is “forcing the youth to attend police stations for their past role in protests of 2008 and 2010 to harass them so that they will succumb to their pressure.”

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