APHC calls on UN to send team to IIOJK to assess grim rights situation
Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has appealed to the United Nations and international human rights organizations to send fact-finding teams to assess the severe human rights situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement in Srinagar said that Human Rights Day holds no meaning for oppressed Kashmiris, as the territory remains a highly militarized zone where the entire population has been deprived of fundamental rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
He said the Kashmiri people have been denied all basic rights and freedoms guaranteed under the United Nations Charter. The statement deplored that over one million heavily armed Indian forces continue to commit heinous crimes against humanity in IIOJK, aiming to intimidate the population into submission.
The spokesman highlighted that human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, and ordinary citizens face the worst forms of state terrorism. The APHC appealed to nations, organizations, and people worldwide who uphold human dignity to support Kashmiris in their just struggle to secure their inalienable right to self-determination.
Meanwhile, religious and civic groups in Srinagar have also condemned India’s actions in IIOJK. Hurriyat leaders Fayyaz Hussain Jafri and Syed Sibt Shabbir Qumi in a joint statement in Srinagar said that India is systematically violating human rights and forcing Kashmiris to live in conditions akin to hell. They said that despite claiming to be the world’s largest democracy, India has exposed this façade in the occupied territory.
