New Delhi: After recently deadly terrorist attack on CRPF troopers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district in which Paramilitary forces lost lives of allmost 44 jawan returning from holiday which was conducted by Jaish-e-Mohammed now Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo warns of more suicide attacks.
Hizbul Mujahideen operational commander Riyaz Naikoo on Tuesday warned the Indian Army, CRPF and the Jammu and Kashmir Police to face more suicide attacks in near future.
The extremist group’s operational commander Riyaz Naikoo said Indian soldiers will keep dying until the Army remains in the Valley.
Naikoo in a purported audio message said it is the do-or-die situation for them as the security forces are committing atrocities on the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Issuing a direct threat, Naikoo told security forces that they will have to cry till the time they are in Kashmir and the coffins of the soldiers will continue to fill.
Naikoo made it clear that they are ready to die but will not allow security forces to live in the Valley. The 17-minute audio a release surfaced few days after the Pulwama suicide bombing which claimed lives of 44 CRPF personnel.
The Hizbul Mujahideen extremist group on Tuesday warned that children will soon carry out suicide bombings against Indian security forces in Kashmir. In an audio clip purportedly of Hizbul Mujahideen operational commander Riyaz Naikoo, he is heard saying that suicide attacks will take place because the condition in the Valley is of a “do-or-die situation” for Kashmiris, according to newspaper reported.
In fresh audio clip Hizbul Mujahideen leader Riyaz Naikoo warns of suicide attacks by children:
“You will have to cry till the time you are here,” Naikoo said in the clip that was released on social media groups. “The coffins of your soldiers will continue to fill till your Army is here. We are ready to die but won’t allow you to live as well.”
Naikoo claimed that the last week’s attack on a Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Pulwama district of Kashmir, which killed 40 jawans, was the consequence of atrocities India has committed on the people of the state. “We will keep on sacrificing our lives,” he said in the clip. “We prefer to die than surrender. The day is not far when our 15-year-old children will strap explosives on their bodies and barge into your Army vehicles. We prefer death over slavery.”
The militant group leader allegedly also warned Indians against attacking Kashmiris in other parts of the country. “Remember if anything happens to any Kashmiris outside, we will kill the non-local labourers in the Valley,” he said according to another leadgin Indian news paper.
“Till the Kashmir issue is not settled as per the aspirations of its people, every mother from Kashmir to Kanyakumari will have to bear the pain of losing their sons,” Naikoo added.
He said the attacks will continue until Indian forces remain in Kashmir. “We want to tell Indian people that by the oppression of their forces, our attacks won’t stop,” Naikoo added. “We know why your forces oppress Kashmiris. Because you don’t treat us as your own people. We also don’t consider India as our country.”
The Hizbul Mujahideen commander also challenged the Indian government to hold a plebiscite in Kashmir if it believes most people want to stay with India. “Yesterday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh while leaving Srinagar claimed that Kashmiris were with India,” he said. “I want to tell him if Kashmiris are with India and only five percent people want Azadi, why are you afraid of holding a plebiscite?”
