Indian forces targeting youth to suppress Kashmiris’ plebiscite demand
Troops martyred 21 youth, arrested 4,670 this year: Report
Srinagar: The Indian army and police establishment, enjoying unbridled powers under black laws, are openly targeting innocent youth in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing struggle for their right to a plebiscite, as acknowledged in United Nations resolutions.
According to a report released by Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of International Youth Day, being observed today, Indian forces’ personnel are brutally murdering Kashmiri youth for demanding their fundamental political and legal rights, including their birthright to a plebiscite and the right to self-determination as per the United Nations.
The report said Kashmiri youth are being targeted, harassed, and arrested under the garb of cordon and search operations and house raids by Indian troops, paramilitary, and police personnel on a daily basis. It added that Indian forces have intensified extra-judicial killings and fake encounters of Kashmiri youth since August 5, 2019, when the BJP-led Indian government repealed the special status under Articles 370 and 35A of IIOJK and imposed a military and police siege in the occupied territory.
The report pointed out that Indian troops have martyred 21 Kashmiri youth and arrested as many as 4,670 so far this year, while 96,502 Kashmiris, mostly youth, have been killed by Indian forces since 1989 till date in IIOJK. It said thousands of Kashmiri youth, along with Hurriyat leaders, Ulema, women, journalists, and human rights activists, are facing illegal detention.
Over three thousand Kashmiris, including leaders, activists, women and mostly youth, are languishing in different jails of India and IIOJK on fake cases as part of the Indian BJP government’s political vendetta.
The report said the BJP regime must understand that no amount of brutalization and anti-Kashmiri policies will be able to subjugate the Kashmiris. It said India can kill and detain Kashmiri youth, but it cannot defeat their stand and sentiment for freedom. The people of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to continue their struggle till complete success, it added.
The report said history is witness to the fact that people’s genuine political demands related to the future of the disputed region cannot be suppressed through the use of military might and state terrorism. It said the world community, particularly the United Nations, is duty-bound to stop injustice, brutalities, and the merciless killing of youth in IIOJK and must come to the rescue of the Kashmiris. India must be held accountable for its heinous crimes and continued human rights violations in the occupied territory, it added.
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