#Day83: ‘We Are Witness To Killings Around Us’

Aakash Hassan

ISLAMABAD

Students closed their one eye as a mark of solidarity with pellet hit victims in Pantha Chowk area of Srinagar on Sep 29, 2016. (KL Image: Bilal Bahadur)

Scores of students on Thursday morning held protest rally in South Kashmir’s Islamabad and Kulgam districts, against the scheduled examination of Class 12th and 10th.

In Islamabad, students marched from Janglat Mandi to DC office students protested outside mini-Secretariat Kulgam.

Holding placards of “don’t ruin our future,” “boycott board exam,” students termed the recent examination as ‘politicisation of education’.

“This is total injustice with us; we have covered just 40% of our syllabus. Taking the current uprising in view it seems that education minister is trying to befool us,” Said Aksa Jan, a 12th class student.

Students termed the current situation as mentally disturbing and not feasible for examination.

“Besides syllabus, we are mentally disturbed by the current satiation. We have witnessed violence and killings around us and were not able to concentrate on studies,” said another student.

The annual examination of the class 10th and 12th is scheduled to begin by mid-November despite the mass uprising in valley after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen Commander Burhan Wani that left more than 89 civilians dead by forces action.

The move to hold examination is largely being “seen pressure tactics by Government to break shutdown”.

“They are playing politics with us and we will not go for exams,” said another student. “We are ready to sacrifice our future.”

Terming “failure of government” in education sector a student said, “first they banned private tuition centers and asked us to study at government run centers in winter. They wasted our winter months and are now telling us to go for examination,” said Suhaib a class 10th student from Islamabad.

As the situation continues to remain tense in valley, students urged government “to make sure that they are safe first at their home and then talk of examinations”.

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