APHC condemns intensified repression in IIOJK
Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has strongly condemned the escalating repression in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, highlighting the increased use of cordon and search operations, raids, extrajudicial killings of innocent youth, arbitrary arrests and the confiscation of properties by Indian forces’ personnel in the territory.
According to Kashmir Media Service, in a statement issued in Srinagar, APHC spokesperson Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas denounced the unchecked powers granted to Indian troops, paramilitary forces and police under draconian laws, which have been used to perpetrate widespread violence against helpless Kashmiris. He said Indian troops continue to torture detained youth, often taking them to isolated locations to kill them in staged encounters. Minhas emphasized that since 1989, hundreds of Kashmiri youth have been extrajudicially executed by Indian troops.
The spokesperson further revealed that the BJP-led Hindutva government and its appointed Lieutenant Governor in occupied Jammu and Kashmir have compiled a list of pro-freedom activists, intellectuals, youth and journalists, who are being systematically persecuted.
Thousands of Kashmiris, including Hurriyat leaders, are languishing in jails on fabricated charges, Minhas said, with the sole aim of punishing them for demanding the right to self-determination. He pointed out that while the BJP government claims that the situation has normalized in Kashmir following the revocation of Articles 370 and 35A, the ground reality proves otherwise.
The APHC has called on international human rights organizations to intervene and end India’s mounting oppression in IIOJK. Minhas also urged the United Nations to apply pressure on India to resolve the Kashmir dispute in accordance with its own resolutions.
