Indian troops martyr 7 Kashmiris in July
Srinagar: Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism martyred seven Kashmiris in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir during the last month of July.
According to the data issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, today, of those martyred five were killed in fake encounters during cordon and search operations.
Indian troops, police and paramilitary personnel during 144 cordon and search operations and house raids arrested 49 civilians, mostly youth and activists. Many of those arrested were booked under black laws, Public Safety Act (PSA) and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and lodged in different jails of IIOJK.
Fifty one people were injured when Indian army and police personnel resorted to brute force in the occupied territory during the period.
Additionally, intensifying its colonial style suppression, the highly communal and corrupt administration led by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, under the direct control of the Indian Home Minister, seized twenty-two properties, including residential houses, shops and agricultural lands. These illegal confiscations are part of the BJP-led Indian government’s strategy to economically strangle Kashmiris and suppress their political stand of plebiscite demand and sentiment aspirations.
Meanwhile, over 3,000 Hurriyat leaders, activists, youth, students, ulema, journalists and human rights defenders, including APHC Chairman Masarat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Mohammad Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul- Islam, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Molvi Bashir Ahmed, Bilal Siddiqi, Ameer Hamza, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom, Noor Muhammd Fayaz, Abdul Ahad Parra, Firdous Ahmed Shah, Assadullah Parray, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Yousuf, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Hayat Ahmed Butt, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Umar Adil Dar, Fayaz Hussain Jaffary, Muhammad Yasin Butt, Saleem Nananji, Merajuddin Nanda, Showket Hakeem, Zahoor Ahmed Butt, human rights defender Khurrum Parvez, Irfan Majeed and over three dozen Kashmiri women continue to remain lodged in different jails of India and IIOJK. 
