Srinagar: All Pakistan Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has exposed Indian state sponsored terrorism in IIOJK, conversion of Muslim majority into minority and continuous detention of Hurriyet leaders in its annual report 2021.
Military crackdown and intensified extra-judicial killings in staged operations in IIOJK which reflects extremist anti-Muslim designs of “Hindutva” inspired extremist BJP-government. Indian occupying forces have launched 467 Cordon and Search Operation (CASOs) and Cordon and Destroy Operations (CADOs) which resulted in 85 encounters.
128 Indian occupational forces were also killed which include 29 who committed suicide in different parts of IIOJK. Indian occupation forces have martyred 210 Kashmiris in fake encounters, 135 houses vandalized, detained 1686 persons and lodged in different jails, 410 persons were booked under draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act while as 178 persons were booked under Public Safety Act in 2021. 49 civilians were killed in different violence related accidents including extra-judicial killing of top Hurriyet leadership Muhammad Ashraf Sehraie by Indian occupational forces and mother-daughter dup by mysterious blast in Handwara.
Burial of the last remains of martyrs at unknown locations without the consent and presence of their families in many instances, is yet another abhorrent manifestation of India’s use of state-terrorism as a policy tool to suppress the just Kashmiri struggle for their inalienable right to self-determination. India’s ongoing, systematic and widespread human rights violations in IIOJK warrants investigation by UN Commission of Inquiry (COI), as recommended by the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in its Kashmir Reports of 2018 and 2019.
The report expressed deep concerns over the day-to-day deteriorating human rights situation in IIOJK. Gross human rights violations were being committed by the Indian occupational forces with impunity, lamenting that the freedom of expression and rights to assembly was in a state of suspension in the Indian occupied territory.
APHC spokesman appealed to the international human rights organisations, including the UN Human Rights Council, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and International Committee of Red Cross to take cognizance of the plight of the Kashmiri detainees and to press New Delhi to release them forthwith. Web Desk
