WAHINGTON: A prominent Kashmiri leader said on Sunday that South Africa’s act to sue Israel in the world court for “genocidal actions” in the Gaza Strip and a similar petition filed by Gambia against Myanmar for slaughters against Rohingya Muslims were “important” steps towards addressing human right abuses committed against civilian population.
This was stated by Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, head of World Forum for Peace and Justice on Sunday.
He said that the international community can share the crime felt by the people of the region. He hoped the international community would now turn its complete attention to issue of Kashmir where atrocities of a similar pattern are being committed by the more than 900,000 Indian forces with impunity.
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He added that the scale of the human rights carnages in Kashmir dwarfs those in Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, and Sierra Leone and which have triggered global interventions.
“But the world and the UN have remained silent, not even employing moral suasion against New Delhi’s shocking indiscriminate violence in Kashmir as was done in South Africa during its horrible years of apartheid.”
Pointing out that Dr Gregory Stanton, President of the Genocide Watch, had also warned the international community in 2021 that the Indian government’s acts in Kashmir had been an extreme case of persecution and could lead to genocide, he expressed regrett that there was no reply to the sounding of that alarm.
Dr Fai stated that it is painful to note the virtual immunity Indian law gives to any type of war crime against humanity perpetrated in Kashmir. He said Kashmiris also asks: Are Kashmiris less human than peoples of other countries?”
