Indian forces martyr 18 Kashmiris in last six months in IIOJK
Srinagar : In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian forces, in their unabated acts of state terrorism, have martyred eighteen Kashmiris in the last six months.
According to data issued today by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, at least 44 civilians were injured due to the use of brute force by Indian police and paramilitary forces against defenceless people of occupied Kashmir.
During the period, the Indian Army, Rashtriya Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force, Special Operations Group, and notorious agencies such as Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK), National Investigation Agency (NIA), and State Investigation Agency (SIA) arrested over 1,131 civilians, including youth, students, activists, and women. Many of them were booked under draconian laws, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Public Safety Act (PSA), during 908 cordon and search operations and house raids.
Additionally, intensifying its colonial-style suppression, the highly communal and corrupt administration led by New Delhi-appointed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, under the direct control of the Indian Home Minister, seized 185 properties, including houses, lands, shops, institutions, and vehicles belonging to activists in IIOJK.
These illegal confiscations are part of the BJP-led Indian government’s strategy to economically strangle Kashmiris and suppress their political stance and freedom aspirations.
Meanwhile, forces’ personnel martyred two youths, while the bodies of two others were found in the presence of Indian army, paramilitary, Special Operations Group, and police personnel in Ramban and Shopian districts of the territory last month, in June. The grisly killings are meant to terrify Kashmiris, but every killing instills new vigour in the most militarized zone in the world.
At least sixty-three persons, including APHC leader Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Farooq Ahmed Tawheedi, activists, and women, were arrested by Indian forces last month.Meanwhile, over three thousand Hurriyat leaders, activists, youth, students, journalists, women, 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, Merajudin Kalwal, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Advocate Shahidul Islam, Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom, Dr. Hameed Fayaz, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Bilal Siddiqi, Molvi Bashir Usmani, Fayaz Hussain Jaferi, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Advocate Zahid Ali, Dr. Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Rafiq Ahmad Ganai, Khurrum Parvaiz (human rights defender), and dozens of Kashmiri women, continue to remain lodged in different jails of India and IIOJK.
These detainees are the worst victims of the political vendetta of the Bharatiya Janata Party regime and are being victimized for their affiliation with the true demand for political justice in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
