<p>Separatist-turned-mainstream politician, Sajjad Lone on Friday said that his father Abdul Gani Lone was killed “for speaking the truth and expressing his ideas.”</p>.<p>Senior Lone, who was a senior leader of Hurriyat Conference, was killed by Hizbul Mujahideen militants on May 21, 2002, in Srinagar for opposing a growing gun culture in the Valley. He was considered an advocate of finding a lasting solution to Kashmir through peaceful means.</p>.<p>In a series of tweets, his son Sajjad Lone said those who opposed his father and created a false narrative that ended up in his killing saw what his father was mercifully spared from seeing.</p>.<p>“But what gives me some solace is that those who opposed him and created that false narrative that culminated in my father being killed- that crowd, some of them still alive, were better dead than alive. They saw what my father was mercifully spared from seeing,” Sajjad, chairman of Peoples Conference (PC), tweeted.</p>.<p>He said the worse oppressors are those who oppress under the garb of fighting oppression.</p>.<p>“As long as we do not stop collectively lying especially on who killed whom we as people will continue to be in the state that we are. People deserve to know-oppressors have many forms. And the worse form of oppressors are those who oppress under the fig leaf of fighting oppression," Sajjad, who was a cabinet minister on BJP quota during the PDP-BJP alliance in J&K from 2015 to 2018, said in another tweet.</p>
<p>Separatist-turned-mainstream politician, Sajjad Lone on Friday said that his father Abdul Gani Lone was killed “for speaking the truth and expressing his ideas.”</p>.<p>Senior Lone, who was a senior leader of Hurriyat Conference, was killed by Hizbul Mujahideen militants on May 21, 2002, in Srinagar for opposing a growing gun culture in the Valley. He was considered an advocate of finding a lasting solution to Kashmir through peaceful means.</p>.<p>In a series of tweets, his son Sajjad Lone said those who opposed his father and created a false narrative that ended up in his killing saw what his father was mercifully spared from seeing.</p>.<p>“But what gives me some solace is that those who opposed him and created that false narrative that culminated in my father being killed- that crowd, some of them still alive, were better dead than alive. They saw what my father was mercifully spared from seeing,” Sajjad, chairman of Peoples Conference (PC), tweeted.</p>.<p>He said the worse oppressors are those who oppress under the garb of fighting oppression.</p>.<p>“As long as we do not stop collectively lying especially on who killed whom we as people will continue to be in the state that we are. People deserve to know-oppressors have many forms. And the worse form of oppressors are those who oppress under the fig leaf of fighting oppression," Sajjad, who was a cabinet minister on BJP quota during the PDP-BJP alliance in J&K from 2015 to 2018, said in another tweet.</p>