KCEU to organise protest camp in Brussels on August 4
Brussels: Kashmir Council Europe (KCEU) announced that it will organize a protest camp in Brussels on August 4.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the event would be held at 1:00pm at the Europe Squire in front of Central Train Station in the European Headquarters, Brussels.
The Chairman of Kashmir Council Europe (KCEU), Ali Raza Syed, in a statement issued in Brussels said beside the protest camp, he would also address gatherings at Pakistan’s embassies in Brussels and the Hague and a webinar on August 4, 2024. These events are being organized to protest against Indian action of August 5, 2019 for revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir.
He said Kashmiris, who are oppressed since occupation of large parts of their land by the Indian forces on October 27, 1947, are facing more hardships and miseries in the post August 5, 2019’s Indian actions.
According to him, a large number of the political figures, human rights activists, socially active persons and journalists are in jail and even the Indian government removed necessary facilities to pro-Indian political leaders, including Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti.
Ali Raza Syed said brutalities, particularly extra-judicial killings, by the Indian forces are constantly going on in the occupied territory and Indian forces use black laws for such atrocities.
In the last five years, he said, by changing the Jammu and Kashmir domicile’s rules, the Indian government led by Narendra Modi granted residence status of the Jammu and Kashmir to hundreds of thousands of non-Kashmiris. Additionally, land banks of thousands of kanals have been indefinite and earmarked in different districts of the occupied Jammu and Kashmir to be allotted to the non-state subjects in the name of ‘investment and industry’.
Ali Raza Syed asked the International community, including human rights organizations, to take serious notice of the situation in occupied Kashmir and stop human rights violations in the state.
