MIRPUR, AJK: Kashmiri activists have strongly condemned the world’s top human rights defenders for what they termed their criminal silence over the political prisoners languishing in Indian jails over trumped-up charges.
Led by Altaf Hussain Wani, Incharge UN Kashmir delegation Geneva; Fahim Kayani, president of Tehreek-e-Kashmir UK; and Ch Babar Wariach President Tehreek-e-Kashmir Italy, hundreds of Kashmiri activists held demonstrations outside United Nations Human Rights (UNHR) office in Geneva on Friday, said a press release received here Saturday.
Reminding global human rights defenders of the plight of Kashmiri political prisoners, Kayani said: “Kashmiris are no lesser children of God. Silence of Western capitals and international organizations speaks volumes about double standards on human rights.”
According to reports, India has illegally kidnapped around 10,000 Kashmiris including the top All Parties Hurriyat Conference leadership, globally recognized human rights activists, journalists and professionals.
Indian agencies have lodged fake cases against these people and have until now failed to produce single evidence in what are in every sense Indian Kangaroo courts, to prove these cases.
“India has morally and ethically failed to win Kashmiris and after it failed to crush the movement for the right to self-determination, these Indian terror-inflicting agencies filed these fake cases,” Kayani said.
Masarat Alam, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabir Shah, Dr Qasim Faktoo, Ayaz Akbar, Aasiya Andrabi, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nahida Nasreen, Peer Saifullah and others are among around 10,000 Kashmiris illegally abducted by Indian agencies and occupying forces.
Addressing the demonstrators, Altaf Wani said the reign of terror inflicted on Kashmiri people in Indian Illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir “will meet the fate of dead end, sooner than later.”
“India’s all-out war launched in 1990s could not scare Kashmiris and these tactics will again fail to convince Kashmiris,” Wani said.
He said global community must break its silence and the media should be allowed to work in a free environment.
“Besides suppressing Kashmiris, Indian agencies have persecuted media which has blocked the relay of independent stories from IIoJK,” he said.
Charging India with imposing information apartheid on IIoJK, Wani said: “This vicious cycle of terrorism by India against Kashmiris must end.”
Ch. Babar Warriach laid the responsibility of ending state terrorism in IIoJK on the international community.
“The global defenders of human rights must stand up, open their mouth and hold India accountable,” Warriach said.
Mirza Asif Jarral Chairman J&K Democratic Forum France, Hasan ul Banna Member UN Kashmir delegation Geneva, Ch Muhammad Munir Senior Vice President TeK Europe Italy, Raja M Wasim Sec Gen Tehreek-e-Kashmir Europe Italy, Attiq Zubair Jarral Deputy Sec Gen TeK Europe Italy and others also condemned human rights violations and Indian occupation of Kashmir. –APP
