SRINAGAR: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has strongly condemned the alarming deterioration of human rights in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) especially, since Narendra Modi-led Indian government scrapped the territory’s special status in August 2019, local and western media reported on Saturday.
In a statement, the APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas said that the occupation forces have martyred 875 Kashmiris, wounded over 2,400, and arrested about 24,015 since August 5, 2019. In the just concluding month of May, eight Kashmiris, including three in fake encounters were martyred, 703 youth were arrested, and four were wounded, he said.
He strongly criticized the Indian government’s actions aimed at suppressing the freedom of expression and perpetuating a culture of fear and terror through draconian steps in the occupied territory. With about one million troops deployed, occupied Kashmir has become one of the most militarized zones in the world, the spokesman added.
The APHC also emphasized that the unresolved Kashmir dispute, ongoing for decades, is directly linked to the rising human rights crisis in the occupied territory.
