SRINAGAR: Life has been disrupted in Kashmir on the second of a two-day shutdown called by hardline separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani in protest against the killings by paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in Shopian district.
Shops and business establishments are closed and traffic has been affected.
Five people have been killed in Gagren village since last Saturday – four on September 7 and one on September 11.
The CRPF has denied the killing which took place on Wednesday.
The government has already ordered a magisterial inquiry into these killings. It has also ordered the shifting of the CRPF camp from Gagran and its replacement by local armed police.
Geelani has dismissed the order of the inquiry saying it was an eyewash. He has also said the shutdown will “convey a message to end the forced occupation in Kashmir.
There has been no major violence so far today, Sunday.
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‘Addicted to Killings’
The CRPF maintains that all the four youth, killed nine days ago were militants who had attacked the camp that day.
Police have said three of them were civilians while the fourth was a non-local militant of the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant outfit.
However a senior Congress leader, Ghulam Hassan Khan, has claimed that the fourth was a labourer from the Indian state of Bihar. He said the CRPF shot him dead because he had been an eyewitness to the three youth’s killings.
Four days later on Wednesday, the CRPF shot dead a bus driver who was walking out of an alley in Gagren.
The government inquiry will probe into both the incident of killing which have caused outrage in the valley.
A senior separatist, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has said that Indian forces “were addicted to killing Kashmiris”.
He said his colleagues in Geneva will apprise the 27th meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission in geneva in coming days.
