ISLAMABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has strongly condemned the horrendous killing of eight young Kashmiris in Budgam on Sunday.
“Such wanton killings are crimes against humanity and unacceptable. A student of 12th grade also included in the martyrs.
India must be made accountable,” he said in a statement here on Monday.
The AJK President conveyed his deepest condolences to the families of martyrs and to those, who have been grievously injured by Indian barbarities.
He said that Indian occupation force personnel were killing innocent Kashmiris with impunity because they were protected by draconian laws.
“Indian occupation forces are not accountable under India’s national laws and it’s a pity that the international community is looking the other way. This has emboldened the Indian occupation forces in their atrocities.”
Sardar Masood Khan said that India did not learn from its experience, as in the last 70 years it had held several farcical elections and Kashmiris had said no to India’s sham elections and its illegal writ that it wanted to impose on the Kashmiris through these stage-managed elections.
Yesterday’s lowest turnout of 6.5%, the President said, once again exposed Indian farce and its myth of held valley being part of India.
President Masood said that the people of held Kashmir and Azad Kashmir rejected the elections which had been used as a tool to perpetuate India’s repression and terrorism in IOK.
He urged the international community to play its role to terminate India’s reign of terror on the unarmed and peaceful people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Nobody, he said, could snatch from Kashmiris their right of association, free speech and peaceful demonstration.
The President said that the United Nations should not act like a disinterested bystander in the wake of the ongoing human rights crisis in Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK).
It must, he said, take steps to hold a democratic and fair plebiscite to ascertain the wishes of the Kashmiri people in accordance with its own resolutions.
India, he said, was depriving Kashmiris of their fundamental right to life. “This genocide must stop. India must stop its state sponsored terrorism in IoK,” he said. (APP)