ISLAMABAD: Human rights violations in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) by Indian troops have reached alarming proportions since the Modi-led Hindutva Indian regime illegally repealed the special constitutional status of the territory in August 2019.
Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of “International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims” being observed today said though international rights bodies have been raising alarm about rights violations in IIOJK yet Indian forces are arbitrarily arresting and torturing Kashmiris during house raids and so-called cordon and search operations on daily basis.
It said nearly 96,292 people have fell to Indian bullets since Jan 1989 till date in IIOJK, adding India is using draconian laws, including Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA, Public Safety Act (PSA) and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) to stifle political dissent in the territory.
The report said though the IIOJK human rights groups, international human rights bodies report have been raising alarm about rights violations in IIOJK yet Indian troops, paramilitary and police personnel are arbitrarily arresting, torturing and killing Kashmiris on a daily basis during so-called cordon and search operations (CASOs).
Even political leaders, women, youth, human rights activists and journalists in IIOJK are not spared by the Hindutva Indian regime. They are abducted, threatened and tortured simply for doing their job, it said.
The report said amid widening continued crackdown and house raids, the Indian Hindutva government, while violating international laws, is not listening to the global calls to stop human rights violations in IIOJK.
The report maintained that the United Nations must take notice of grave rights abuses in the occupied territory and hold the Indian troops and all its men in uniform as well as the Indian government accountable for their crimes in the occupied territory.
Meanwhile, APHC spokesman Advocate Abudl Rashid Minhas in a statement issued in Srinagar deplored that India wanted to crush the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination demand with military might. He appealed to the world human rights organizations to impress upon New Delhi to stop violating the basic rights of the detainees.
He said people’s struggles for the realization of their political will can never be crushed through force, illegal detentions and the use of military might. He added that the Kashmiris would stay united and would continue their struggle till the ongoing freedom movement reached its logical conclusion. He said all outstanding issues between India and Pakistan, including the Kashmir dispute, can be resolved through meaningful dialogue.
