Monitoring Desk
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Prime Minister of Malaysia and a renowned global statesman Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad, on Sunday, said the Kashmir Solidarity Day is a day that reminds the world that the plight of the people of Kashmir had deteriorated since India’s unilateral revocation of 35A and article 370 of its constitution in August 2019.
In a statement issued on the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day, Mahathir said that while India continued to state that revocation was its right, its follow-up actions and the impact of the decision were definitely wrong and against all basic principles of relations between countries.
When the rest of the whole world imposed lockdowns to contain the spread of Covid 19, India imposed a lockdown on Jammu and Kashmir to stop protests and opposition to its imposition to emergency law and revocation of the autonomous status of the Kashmiri territory, he added.
Mahathir says India continues atrocities in Kashmir
Mahathir said, “if lockdowns in other regions of the world were intended to protect human lives and further sufferings, the lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir valley resulted in the exact opposite and worst.”
The world learned horrific stories of Indian forces carrying out mass extrajudicial killings and torture. He concluded that these stories continued to emerge despite repeated concerns and protests recorded by international organizations.
