JKNF concerned over HRVs, plight of Kashmiri prisoners
Srinagar: Jammu Kashmir National Front (JKNF) while expressing serious concerns over the fast deteriorating political and human rights situation in the Indian occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir has appealed to the world human rights organizations to help stop the bloodbath of innocent Kashmiris at the hands of the trigger-happy Indian occupation forces.
Taking a dig at the Indian government’s highhandedness and hegemonic designs in the region, the JKNF spokesman in a statement issued from Srinagar on Monday said that the occupation authorities at the helm of affairs have turned Kashmir valley into serfdom where Kashmiris are being treated as slaves. “The authorities are engaged in such vicious and vile activities that go against the spirit of universally acknowledged principles of justice”, the spokesman said. “On one hand blood of innocent civilians particularly the youth is being spelled on the streets with impunity by the Indian forces while on the other deafening silence on the part of the so-called civilized world has emboldened the occupation authorities to carry out atrocious activities against civilians without an inkling of accountability”, he said.
Voicing his party’s concern over the plight of Kashmiri prisoners, he said, “Kashmir is the only place in the world where any person can be arrested and held in detention for an indefinite period of time”, the spokesman said while referring to the continued detention of Kashmiri prisoners. “The lawlessness has reached to a point where apartheid regime led by Naredar Modi is shamelessly and blatantly threatening every Kashmiri who dares to challenge its belligerence and bellicosity”, he added.
Reiterating his call for early release of all illegally detained Kashmiri leaders and political activists he said, “The Front Chairman and hundreds of other Kashmiri political prisoners are made to suffer in jails and other detention centers despite the fact that the Indian authorities have not been able to provide a single against them.”, the spokesman said.
Terming the unlawful detention of Hurriyat leaders as a blatant violation of basic human rights he said that India was unabashedly using detentions as a tool to suppress the voice of dissent in the region.
The Front spokesman urged the world human rights organization to take effective cognizance of the matter and play their much-needed role in the early release of Kashmiri prisoners who have been left to rot in far-off Indian jails.
Referring to occupation authorities’ issuance of a list of dos and don’ts for Kashmiri employees the spokesman while terming it as a colonial tactic said that it was yet another attempt to suppress Kashmiris who were already forced to live under suffocating conditions.
The spokesman made it clear that India cannot stifle the Kashmiris’ legitimate struggle for the right to self-determination through the use of brute force or by using colonial tactics.
