SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All PartiesHurriyat Conference has said that the admission of killing of three Rajourilabourers by Indian Army in a fake encounter in Shopian vindicates the factthat Indian forces are committing genocide of Kashmiris.
Indian Army had killed three youth during a cordon and search operation inAmshipora area of Shopian on July 18 and passed them on as “unidentifiedmilitants”. Days later, the victims were identified by their familiesthrough the pictures released by the Indian Army as Imtiyaz Ahmed, AbrarAhmed and Muhammad Ibrar from Rajouri who had gone to Kashmir Valley insearch of work. The army, yesterday, admitted that the youth hailed fromRajouri.
The APHC spokesman in a statement in Srinagar said that Indian forces’personnel were killing innocent youth in staged encounters in IIOJK tosuppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing struggle for securing their right toself-determination. He demanded an impartial investigation into allincidents of killings by the troops in IIOJK through an impartialinternational agency to bring the perpetrators to book.
The family members of the martyred labourers have demanded capitalpunishment for the killer soldiers. The uncle of the slain youth, LalHussain, in a media interview said that they had three demands; return ofthe dead bodies, capital punishment for those involved in this fakeencounter and rebuttal of remarks that the youth were militants. TheChairman of International Forum for Justice and Human Rights, MuhammedAhsan Untoo, in his statement said Shopian fake encounter is not the firstof its kind but there were thousands of such heinous acts perpetrated byIndian forces in the territory.
Political analysts, Kashmir watchers and observers talking to the KMS overphone from Srinagar while seeking anonymity due to reprisal from the Indianauthorities said that the ongoing use of pellet firing shotguns by Indiantroops in IIOJK constituted a war crime.
They noted that there is no other country in the world except India whichuses shotguns for crowd control. And even within India, they added, thereis no place where shotguns are regularly and consistently used for crowdcontrol.
The Chairman of Tehreek-e-Muzahamat, Bilal Siddiqi, in a statement inSrinagar termed the implicating of Dr Bilquis Shah, the wife of illegallydetained senior APHC leader Shabbir Ahmed Shah, in a false case as a freshexample of political vendetta by the Indian authorities. Jammu and KashmirTehreek-e-Wahdat-e-Islami in a statement in Srinagar while reacting to theeconomic package announced by the Indian authorities for IIOJK maintainedthat the Kashmiris were not making sacrifices for perks and privileges butfor freedom from India’s illegal occupation of their homeland.
Indian police and troops arrested five youth from Pulwama and Rajouri areas.
Speakers of a webinar organised by Islamabad-based Kashmir Institute ofInternational Relations strongly condemned the Modi-led fascist Indianregime for carrying out systematic human rights abuses in IIOJK. Thespeakers including British and European parliamentarians, human rightsdefenders, former diplomats and experts highlighted the plight and unendingmiseries of the half widows who despite the passage of several years werestill wandering from pillar to post to trace the whereabouts of theirmissing husbands.
‘Use of pellet guns in IIOJK constitutes a war crime’: In Indian illegallyoccupied Jammu and Kashmir, political analysts, Kashmir watchers andobservers have said that the ongoing use of pellet firing shotguns byIndian troops in the territory constitutes a war crime.
India first started using pellet guns against the Kashmiris in 2010 but thematter only hit the international prominence in 2016 when protestsfollowing the extra-judicial killing of popular youth leader, Burhan Wani,resulted in thousands of injuries, the blinding of hundreds and the deathsof over 70 people. The massive use of pellet guns caught the attention ofthe world. The Guardian published a story asking if Kashmir represented“the world’s first mass blinding”.
Political analysts, Kashmir watchers and observers while talking to the KMSover phone from Srinagar while seeking anonymity due to reprisal from theIndian authorities said that the people of IIOJK were not just symbols ofinjustice, they were also living in terrible pain.
The Kashmir people also have rights under international law but theirrights are being consistently violated by the Indian regime, they said.“Irrespective of how the territorial issue of Kashmir is eventuallyresolved, there is a human aspect to Kashmir which needs to be confrontednow. This is not just a dry legal dispute to be debated in textbooks andseminars,” they added.