NEW DELHI – The UNHCR has termed the Indian media campaign as an attemptsto distract and divert focus from human rights violations in occupiedKashmir. A Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,Rupert Colville, said in a statement in Geneva today, that the Indian mediacalling the UN body report as Nefarious conspiracy, fallacious and malafide are unfounded and baseless.
He said that the UN Human Rights Office has a global mandate and worksindependently, with a well-established methodology, in its public reporting.
He lashed out at the campaign launched by the Indian media outlets at thebehest of the Indian government against the UN body and UN SecretaryGeneral over UNHRC’s landmark report on Kashmir terming it puzzling andwild claims.
He also said that it had been deeply disappointed by the reaction of theIndian authorities, who dismissed the report as fallacious, tendentious andmotivated without examining it and responding to the very serious concernsabout the human rights situation in occupied Kashmir.