Srinagar: Brutal and inhuman torture techniques employed by Indian troops, paramilitary forces and police personnel like torture in custody, firing on peaceful protesters in the territory have left thousands of Kashmiris disabled for life, including over 200 losing eyesight in one or both eyes.
Among the most brutal tactics used in the territory by Indian troops to disable and maim the Kashmiris include firing of bullets, pellets, teargas and PAVA (made of pelargonic acid vanillylamide, an organic compound found in natural chilli pepper) shells on peaceful protesters as well as resorting to severe beatings, electric shock, crushing the leg muscles with a wooden roller, burning with heated objects and hanging upside down in interrogation centres.
Besides, booby traps, landmines and mine blasts are also used against the hapless Kashmiris which have caused thousands of deaths and disabled innocent people of Kashmir. International community should take notice of Indian government’s inhuman act of disabling the Kashmiris under a systematic torture mechanism in Indian Administered Kashmir.
Meanwhile, in a statement APHC leaders said, Indian troops and police personnel are arresting innocent youth and children in the territory and subjecting them to torture, rendering them physically disabled.
Many international organizations, including Human Rights Watch, released eye-opening reports regarding Indian brutalities on the Kashmiri people but despite that Indian oppression in Indian Administered Kashmir was increasing day-by-day. UN and world powers must play their role in halting Indian state terrorism in Indian Administered Kashmir.
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