London: In the history of the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir the 21st May 1990 is the blackest day when the roads of the Srinagar were turned red with the blood of the Kashmiris.According to the report of The Kashmir Centre, On 21 May 1990, thousands of Kashmiris took to the streets of Srinagar to carry the coffin of Mirwaiz Moulana Muhammad Farooq, their beloved religious leader, assassinated at his own home earlier that same day. The CRPF had already sealed every road, lane and alleyway in the area. They turned their weapons on the crowd and fired until their magazines were empty. The coffin itself was struck by bullets. Over 70 people were killed on the spot. More than 200 were wounded. Not one occupation soldier was ever prosecuted.There was no provocation. There was no attack. This was a funeral procession. The Indian occupation turned it into a massacre.Mirwaiz Moulana Muhammad Farooq was the chief religious leader of Kashmir, a figure of immense spiritual authority. He was assassinated by unid entified gunmen at his home in Nigeen, Srinagar, earlier that same day. Thousands gathered, lifted his coffin and began the march towards Mirwaiz Manzil. They were mourners. The Indian occupation apparatus treated them as targets.According to the report, this was not a spontaneous act. The CRPF, operating as an arm of the Indian occupation, had blocked all roads, lanes and bylanes before the procession arrived. Escape routes were sealed. Occupation troops positioned near Islamia College turned their weapons on the crowd and kept firing. People scrambled into doorways and alleys. They were cut down there too. The dead and wounded had to be carried away on handcarts because every route out had been deliberately closed.The rattle of automatic weapons echoed through Hawal's lanes as people carrying the coffin of their religious leader were shot where they stood. The coffin itself was struck by bullets. Men, women and children fell in the streets. The Indian occupation's forces did not stop. The magazines were emptied into a crowd that had nowhere to hide and nothing in their hands.According to the report, the Hawal massacre was not a miscalculation. It was policy. Every arm of the Indian occupation apparatus in Kashmir, its military forces, its paramilitary units and its installed administrative machinery, operated in coordination to suppress any expression of Kashmiri political will. The calculation was that enough blood would crush resistance. Every time, the occupation miscalculated. Every massacre deepened the resolve of a people who had decided they would not live under foreign boots.The blood spilled at Hawal did not silence the demand for Azadi. Neither did the dozens of other massacres carried out by the Indian occupation across Kashmir. Each act of mass killing only proved what Kashmiris already knew: that the occupation had no political answer to their demand for self-determination. It had only guns. And guns, it turned out, were not enough.Not one member of the CRPF was prosecuted for the Hawal ma ssacre. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act, one of the Indian occupation's primary legal tools of control in Kashmir, ensured that occupation forces were shielded from independent civilian prosecution. The occupation regime in New Delhi never granted the sanction required to bring charges. The massacre was documented. The perpetrators were identifiable. The occupation's legal architecture was designed to make sure none of it mattered.Over 30 years on, the Hawal massacre burns in Kashmiri memory. It stands as proof of the Indian occupation's war against an entire people's right to mourn, to gather and to seek freedom. Those who ordered and carried out the slaughter, every part of the same occupation apparatus, may have won the moment. They lost the larger battle. The idea of azadi lives in every Kashmiri heart, fiercer and more determined with every drop of innocent blood shed on this soil.