The Kashmiri students studying in various Indian colleges and universities of Delhi, Hyderabad, Aligarh, Chennai, Pune, Bangalore, Kozhikode and Kolkata staged protest against hanging of Afzal Guru and demanded Azaadi (freedom) from Indian bondage.
Hundreds of students from Jammu and Kashmir while offering funeral prayers-in-absentia of Mohammad Afzal Guru at Jamia Millia Islamia, University in New Delhi marched towards the university gate by raising slogans in favour of freedom, reported KMS. The protestors wore black armbands that read, "We want Freedom", "I'm Afzal", "Azadi is our Destination".
"We had assembled here to pay our tribute to the martyrs of freedom struggle," said a student, adding, "Indian state can crush our struggle by using power; they cannot reduce our emancipation for freedom". The students were earlier denied permission to hold any demonstration on the campus by varsity authorities.
Expressing strong resentment against the brutalities by India, the protestors condemned the continuous Internet and the gagging of press in the Kashmir valley. "We are neither demanding nor expecting any sort of justice from Indian state. The execution of Afzal Guru is one more stone to the long chain of atrocities that India has been committing in Kashmir," said another student. They said it is human rights violation that a man is deprived of his last rites. Some students also stated their disenchantment to Indian judiciary and parliamentary democracy.