Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 21: Chairman of Peoples Conference, Sajad Lone, today while remembering his father Abdul Gani Lone on his death anniversary said that he was killed for speaking the truth and expressing his ideas.
“Remembering my father Abdul Gani Lone who was killed on this day 19 years ago. Killed for expressing his ideas. Killed for speaking the truth. Truth is as much of a rarity now as it was then,” Sajad wrote on Twitter which was followed by a series of tweets.
Lone said that those who ‘opposed’ his father and created ‘false narrative’ that ended up in his killing saw what his father ‘was mercifully spared from seeing’
“But what gives me some solace is that those who opposed him and created that false narrative that culminated in my father being killed- that crowd some of them still alive were better dead than alive. They saw what my father was mercifully spared from seeing,” he wrote in another tweet.
Sajad said that the worse form of ‘oppressors’ are those who oppress under the garb of ‘fighting the oppression.’
“As long as we do not stop collectively lying especially on who killed whom we as people will continue to be in the state that we r. People deserve to know-oppressors have many forms. And the worse form of oppressors’ r those who oppress under the fig leaf of fighting oppression,” Sajad wrote in another tweet.
He said that his father (Abdul Gani Lone) left as a hero and his death ‘symbolized dignity.’
“My father left when dying the way he did symbolised dignity symbolised sacrifice. He went at the right time. He left a hero,” Lone tweeted.
In the meantime, Mirwaiz Moulana Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone were remembered on their death anniversaries today.
Mirwaiz Farooq was killed by the gun men on May 21 in 1990 at his residence while Abdul Gani Lone was killed on May 21 in 2002 at Martyrs graveyard in Srinagar during a function to commemorate death anniversary of late Mirwaiz.
Jammu and Kashmir Awami Action Committee (AAC) today remembered its founder Mirwaiz Moulvi Muhammad Farooq.
An AAC statement said, ” Mirwaiz was a born leader, a torchbearer for the people and the party, who led with example. Strong on his convictions, throughout life, his focus was to strive for and highlight the rights and aspirations of his people in the light of promises made to them and its realisation in a peaceful and just manner.”
” Mirwaiz was an ardent advocate of unity and brotherhood among people and believed it to be the means to succeed in any endeavour. He made all-out efforts to forge unity and erase divisions and factionalism among the people of J&K and also Muslims globally. A visionary he saw the larger picture and the larger good for people in pursuing accord,” the statement added.
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