‘Extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary detentions: The new normal in IIOJK’
Islamabad: Extrajudicial killings, custodial torture and arbitrary detentions by Indian troops have become a regular feature in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
A report released by Kashmir Media Service, today, deplored that the presence of over one million Indian forces’ personnel has IIOJK into a giant open-air prison, denying residents even basic human, social, economic and religious rights. The people of Kashmir are caught in daily cordons, raids, searches, repression, threat and torture, it lamented.
The report reveals a dire situation where people are subjected to daily cordons, raids, searches, repression, threats, and torture. In May 2024 alone, Indian forces’ personnel killed eight Kashmiris during siege and search operations, while another youth was martyred in a fake encounter in Bandipora’s Aragam on Monday.
The report said the occupation authorities are randomly arresting civilians, invoking black laws to prolong their illegal detention, and seizing properties and sacking people from government services on one pretext or another to break their resolve for freedom.
Since the abrogation of Articles 370/35A in August 2019 by the RSS-backed Indian Hindutval regime, human rights violations have spiked in IIOJK, with 875 Kashmiris martyred including dozens in custody, 2,404 critically injured, 24,118 arrested, and over 1,119 houses and structures damaged by the troops while 133 women molested or disgraced, 68 women widowed and 185 children orphaned since then, it added.
The report urged the world to take immediate action to stop horrifying atrocities being committed by Indian troops against the Kashmiris and fulfill its responsibility to resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute.
