A forum led by veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader Syed Ali Gilani, termed the death of over 379 infants at GB Pant Hospital, Srinagar, since January this year as genocide of the Kashmiris, called upon the puppet Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, to step down on moral grounds.
A spokesman for the forum in a statement issued in Srinagar said, “Omar should accept responsibility of deaths of hundreds of children at the hospital. These deaths have been caused by shortage of important life-saving medicines, equipment and other health services, for which the administration is directly responsible”, KMS reported. The spokesman stating that the present dispensation lacks any sense of responsibility, deplored that the whole machinery was mobilized for the protection of stray dogs, but nothing was being done to protect the precious lives of Kashmiri children. He said the criminal silence was being maintained over the deaths, as the puppet administration was directly under the control of Indian Home Ministry, responsible for target killing of the Kashmiri youth over the years.
The spokesman said that under a well thought out strategy, hospitals like G B Pant were not being supplied medicine and other life-saving equipments. “This is done only to kill our children and infants under the policy of genocide. If this incident had taken place in some other country, heads would have rolled. But, Omar Abdullah and his ministers don’t have such moral courage to own the responsibility for these deaths and resign,” he said.