ISLAMABAD: In Indian illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has condemned the upsurge in cordon and search operations carried out by Indian forces, saying that these repressive steps are designed to suppress the freedom sentiments of the people of Kashmir.
In a statement, Kashmir Media Service reported that the All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Srinagar said Indian police, military, and non-Kashmiri bureaucrats in Kashmir are undemocratically ruling the region. While the people there are being suppressed for raising their voices for the right to self-determination.
The APHC noted that the use of brute military force has failed to dent the morale of Kashmiris, and they are determined to continue their freedom struggle with integrity and courage.
“The deployment of more than one million occupation troops used against the civil population who are demanding their legitimate rights is a brazen violation of the Human Rights Charter of 1948, adopted by the United Nations and international laws,” it added.
The APHC criticized the regular cordon and search operations and said that thousands of innocent persons had been imprisoned without a fair trial.
In the occupied region of Kashmir, where the Bharatiya Janata Party supports the government, there is no such thing as the rule of law. To control the Kashmiri people’s love of freedom, it has imposed unofficial martial law, it claimed.
The APHC urged the UN Human Rights Council and other human rights organizations to persuade India to provide them access to the besieged Kashmiri people so they can assess the dire circumstances.
APHC leader
On the other hand, top APHC leader Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar said that the tragedy was a well-planned plot by the Indian government to keep the Kashmiri women away from the independence movement on the night of the Kunan Poshpora mass rape of February 23, 1991.
The APHC chief praised the courageous Kashmiri women for their active involvement and selfless sacrifices in the independence movement. It claimed that Kashmiri women were the main target of the cowardly Indian soldiers.
They are raped in addition to being slain, tortured, and imprisoned. To punish, degrade, and terrify the Kashmiris, he continued, the Indian forces “exploit the rape of women as a tool.”
On the evening of February 23, 1991, Indian troops had conducted a siege and search operation in the Kunan Poshpora region of the district, during which they had gang-raped some 100 women of various ages, ranging from eight to eighty.
Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar and other APHC leaders, such as Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Zamrooda Habib, Fahreeda Behanji, and Dr. Musaib, have pleaded with G-20 nations not to attend India’s planned event in occupied Jammu and Kashmir because India will use it to conceal its state terrorism and mislead the world about the actual situation on the ground in the disputed territory. — APP
