ISLAMABAD – As human rights violations by the Indian occupying forces takea darker turn, the Kashmir Media Service has reported that since 2016, morethan 10,000 protestors have been shot at with pellet guns and teargassed.
Approximately 900 women have been gang-raped and molested and more than3,000 structures, including business and residential, have been destroyed.
Earlier, United Nations human rights experts called on India to lift thelockdown and communication blockade it had imposed on occupied Kashmir as aglobal advocacy group focusing on genocide issued an alert for the disputedregion.
In a strongly-worded statement released by the Office of the UN HighCommissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the experts urged India to end whatit termed a form of ‘collective punishment’ on Kashmiris.
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“The shutdown of the internet and telecommunication networks, withoutjustification from the government [of India], are inconsistent with thefundamental norms of necessity and proportionality,” the statement quotedthe experts as saying.
“The blackout is a form of collective punishment of the people of Jammu andKashmir, without even a pretext of a precipitating offence.”