APHC says India pursuing settler colonialism, Hindutva agenda in IIOJK
Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has urged the international community and global human rights organizations to take urgent cognizance of India’s unabated state terrorism and gross human rights violations in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesperson Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement issued in Srinagar said that India has treated Jammu and Kashmir as its colony since October 27, 1947, when it landed its troops in Srinagar and forcibly occupied the territory against the wishes of the Kashmiri people.
The spokesperson said the ongoing colonization of IIOJK is part of a long-cherished dream of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to alter the region’s demography. The inclusion of non-Kashmiri Hindus in the voter list, he noted, is another calculated move to advance the Hindutva regime’s dangerous game plan in the occupied territory.
The statement deplored that the BJP-led communal regime, having failed to crush the freedom sentiments and resistance of the Kashmiri people, has intensified its campaign of killings, arrests, and house raids. The spokesperson said that Indian troops and police are continuously targeting youth and civilians under the pretext of cordon and search operations, shattering New Delhi’s fabricated narrative of normalcy in IIOJK.
Terming these actions as naked aggression and blatant violation of international covenants, the APHC said the BJP regime is attempting to suppress the legitimate freedom movement through brute force and settler colonial tactics instead of implementing UN Security Council resolutions guaranteeing Kashmiris their right to self-determination.
Reiterating that the Kashmir issue remains an internationally recognized dispute, the APHC called upon the world community to expose India’s nefarious political agenda and mount pressure on New Delhi to allow the Kashmiri people to exercise their UN-mandated right to decide their political future.
