SRINAGAR: Nayeem Ahmed Khan, a senior leader of the All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC), has expressed deep concern over the ongoing killings and human rights violations by the Indian occupation forces in the Indian Illegally-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
The illegally detained leader claimed in a message from Tihar jail that during so-called operations, innocent civilians, particularly young people, were being deliberately targeted and martyred after being dubbed “militants,” a reference to recent acts of state terrorism in which innocent youth were killed in North and South Kashmir, according to a news release.
“On the one hand, the Indian government has let loose its forces to kill Kashmiris, while on the other, NIA has been given a free hand to target and silence political activists and members of civil society who have refused to accept the government dictates,” Khan said, adding that attachment and confiscation of properties of Hurriyat leaders was part of India’s apartheid regime’s clampdown campaign to silence legitimate political voices in Kashmir.
He said that in pursuit of the Israeli settler colonialism model, the Modi regime confiscates the Kashmiris’ lands and properties.
Khan said, “Lands, Houses, and offices of the Kashmiri people are being seized to create a climate of fear and force them to subjugation.”
However, he insisted that the Kashmiri people’s illegal land attachment and expropriation by the Indian occupation authorities wouldn’t stop them from pursuing their common cause of liberation.
The illegally jailed Hurriyat leader pleaded with international human rights organizations to pay enough attention to the situation and do anything to protect the region’s political leaders and activists from being persecuted and victimized. —APP
