Indian forces using black laws to silence IIOJK people: APHC
Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that the Indian BJP government, with its military establishment, is using molestation as a weapon of war to humiliate the people of Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir and suppress their just demand for a plebiscite under United Nations resolutions.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minahs in a statement in Srinagar said that the Indian BJP regime, with its forces, has consistently ignored incidents of sexual violence, leading to a culture of impunity for the forces who perpetrate such heinous war crimes under the protection of the draconian law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
He said the Indian forces have committed multiple war crimes against the people of IIOJK and February 23 is one of the blackest days in the history of Kashmir when Indian troops entered Kunanposhpora area in Kupwara district and committed mass rape. He said the Kunanposhpora area was raided that night by hundreds of Indian forces personnel and over a hundred girls and women were raped, while nearly 200 men were tortured.
The APHC urged international human rights organisations to take steps to provide justice to the victims of the Kunanposhpora tragedy. The statement said that the Indian men in uniform were found guilty in the impartial investigation of this tragedy, but later the Indian government covered up the incident with false pretences and the perpetrators were given a clean chit. They said Kashmiri women are actively involved in the freedom movement.
