2010 Kashmir unrest

The Quit Jammu Kashmir Movement (Jammu Kashmir Chood Do Tehreek) is a civil disobedience movement launched by Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani]] in Indian Administered Kashmir in June 2010. The call for this campaign was given for complete demilitarization of of Indian Administered Kashmir. The separatists held Indian Forces responsible for Machil fake encounter, killing of innocent youth, outraging chastity of women, destroying property and exploitation of our natural resources. They claimed that "the oppression has reached the extreme" which resulted in the launching of ‘Quit Jammu and Kashmir Movement’. The campaign was also aimed to reiterate the call for the Right to Self-Determination for the people of Jammu and Kashmir as was promised by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1947, the then Prime Minister of Indian state, under the auspices of United Nation.

Background: Machil Fake Encounter

On April 30, 2010 Army claimed to have foiled an infiltration bid from across the Line of Control (LoC), diving line between two parts of Jammu and Kashmir, at Machil Sector in Kupwara district by killing three infiltrators from Pakistan.. However, latter it came to be known that the three youth were civilians of Rafiabad area, namely Riyaz Ahmed Lone S/o Mohammad Yousuf Lone, Shehzad Ahmed Khan S/o Ghulam Mohammad Khan and Mohammad Shafi Lone S/o Abdul Rashid Lone, who had went missing after a local counter-insurgent, namely Bashir Ahmed, led them to Sonapindi area for working as “porters” for the Army. On June 11, there were protests against these killings in the downtown area of Srinagar. Police used massive force to disperse the protesting youth during which a teargas bullet killed a seventeen year old Tufail Ahmad Mattoo who was playing cricket in Gani memorial Stadium. This incident triggered a series of protests across the valley. Thereafter a vicious circle was set, killing of a boy was followed by protest demonstrations an clashes with police and CRPF in which another boy was killed which led to anther protest by the boys till youth lost their lives.

Suppression Of The Movement

Almost all of the separatists leader were arrested immediatetly after the killing of tufail Ahmad. Besides, the valley was put under complete curfew. During this period around thousands of protesters were arrested under infamous Public Safety Act.

Dead

• 11 June: Tufail Ahmad Mattoo, 17, killed in teargas fire in Srinagar.

• 19 June: Rafiq Ahmad Bangroo, 27, beaten by members of the Central Reserve Police Force near his home in old Srinagar on 12 June, died of his injuries.

• 20 June: Javed Ahmad Malla, 26, died when mourners, returning from Bangroo’s burial, attacked a CRPF bunker, causing its occupants to open fire.

• 25 June: Shakeel Ganai, 17, and Firdous Khan, 18, killed when the CRPF fired at protesters in Sopore.

• 27 June: Bilal Ahmad Wani, 22, died following CRPF fire in Sopore.

• 28 June: Tajamul Bashir, 20, killed in Delina; Tauqeer Rather, 15, killed in Sopore.

• 29 June: Ishtiyaq Ahmed, 15, Imtiyaz Ahmed Itoo, 17, and Shujaat-ul-Islam, 17, died after being shot by police in southern Anantnag.

• 5 July: Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat, 17, died in CRPF custody in Srinagar.

• 6 July: Fayaz Ahmad Wani, 18, shot by the CRPF during Bhat’s funeral procession in Srinagar; Fancy Jan, 25, the first woman to die, killed when a bullet hit her as she watched events from a window in her house; Abrah Ahmad Khan, 16, killed during protests over Wani’s death.

• 1 August: Tanveer Ahmad, 24, a resident of Khanmouh Pampore; Nayeem Ahmad Shah, 19, a resident of KadlaBal Pampore, when CRPF men opened fire on protesters in Pampore and Afroza, 17, killed when the CRPF fired at protesters in Khrew.