India’s actions in IIOJK blatant violations of international law: APHC
Says jailed leaders making new history in demand of plebiscite
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Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that the Kashmir dispute is, and has always been, an international issue explicitly recognized by United Nations Security Council resolutions.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement issued in Srinagar said India’s unilateral and illegal actions of August 5, 2019—which stripped occupied Jammu and Kashmir of its special status—are a blatant violation of these resolutions. New Delhi, he said, cannot alter the territory’s internationally acknowledged status as a disputed territory through such tactics.
The APHC spokesman said, India’s refusal to acknowledge Kashmir as a dispute and its portraying it as an ‘internal matter’ are deliberate attempts to evade accountability and urged the world to recognize India’s settler-colonial policies in IIOJK as flagrant violation of international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention. The UN’s silence emboldens this oppression, he deplored.
The spokesman urged the international community to pressure India to halt its aggression and honor its commitments under UN resolutions, which guarantee Kashmiris their inalienable right to self-determination.
Advocate Minhas also praised the steadfastness of illegally detained political prisoners including Hurriyat leadership saying that their sacrifiecs are making a new history in the demand for right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people. He said said that the condition of Kashmiris in jails was deplorable.
The statement has expressed grave concern over the deteriorating health conditions of the illegally detained Hurriyat leaders and activists including APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi, Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajudin Kalwal, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Shahidul Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Naheeda Nasreen, Fahemeeda Sofi, Mushtaqul Islam, Dr. Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr. Shafi Sharieti, Ameer Hamza, Muhammad Yousaf Falahi, Molvi Bashir Ahmed, Bilal Siddiqi and thousands of other illegally incarcerated Hurriyat activists languishing in hell like jails of India and the occupied territory.
He termed the criminal apathy meted out to the ailing prisoners by the Indian authorities as brazen violation of prisoners rights approved by the Declaration of Human Rights Charter of 1948.
