Islamabad: Children in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOC) are suffering worst kind of persecution at the hands of Indian occupation forces, as the world is observing International Day of Children on 20th November.
Children in Indian Occupied Kashmir are the worst sufferers due to enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings of their fathers, brothers, grandfathers and other relatives. Such killings have created psychological abnormalities and rendered their lives traumatic haunting their lives forever. Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism have martyred 909 children during the last 32 years.
According to a research report, the killing of innocent Kashmiris by Indian forces rendered 107,849 children orphaned in the territory since 1989. Children in Indian Occupied Kashmir are living in the most militarized zone of the world, with the presence of 700,000 troops, which exposes them to the risk of all six grave violations against children as laid out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Children.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has expressed his concern over the “grave violations” against children in IIOJK and called upon Indian government to take preventive measures to protect children, including by ending use of pellets against them. Indian non-compliance with convention on the rights of children in IIOJK is a question mark on the conscience of international community.
Thousands of people including young school boys and girls were also injured by the pellets fired by Indian troops on peaceful protesters. It added that dozens of persons including 19-month-old Hiba Jan, 4-year-old Zuhra Majeed, 8-year-old Asif Rashid, 8-year-old Owais Ahmad, 10-year-old Asif Ahmad Sheikh and 13-year-old Mir Arafat have lost their eyesight totally due to pellet injuries.
The report said a large number of school boys are among thousands of Kashmiris arrested since India scrapped the special status of IIOJK in August, 2019. Web Desk
