APHC slams surge in Human Rights abuses, arbitrary arrests in IIOJK
Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has denounced the unrelenting human rights violations by Indian troops in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and called on the international community to resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute in line with UN resolutions and the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
According to Kashmir Media Service, on the eve of World Human Rights Day, APHC-affiliated parties, including the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, Tehreek-e-Hurriyet Jammu and Kashmir, Muslim League and Tehreek-e-Mazahamat in their statements in Srinagar urged global attention towards the worsening political and human rights situation in IIOJK.
The parties lamented that the oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir are denied even a fraction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. They stated that the spirit of the UDHR prohibits member nations from suppressing fundamental rights, particularly the right to self-determination. They emphasized that India, responsible for heinous war crimes against the people of IIOJK, should be tried in the International Court of Justice and International War Tribunal.
Meanwhile, APHC leaders, including Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Zamruda Habib, Yasmeen Raja, Farida Bahenji, Syed Bashir Indrabi, Advocate Arshad Iqbal, Advocate Haseeb Wani, Maulana Musaib Nadvi, Khawaja Firdous, Imtiaz Ahmed Reshi and Mohammed Ahsan Untoo, in their separate statements highlighted the ongoing human rights abuses and the illegal detentions of thousands of Kashmiris. They demanded immediate release of all detainees including APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, and other political prisoners languishing in jails across India and IIOJK.
The leaders asserted that the sacrifices of the Kashmiri people would not go in vain but would eventually yield positive results. The international community must break its silence and take decisive steps to end the human rights violations in IIOJK.
