India has no right to hold Republic Day celebrations in IIOJK: JKLA
Srinagar: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Liberation Alliance has declared India’s Republic Day as a Black Day for Kashmiris, saying that a country that has deprived an entire nation of its basic human, political and constitutional rights has no right to hold celebrations in the territory.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the spokesperson of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Alliance Sajjad Mir in a statement in Srinagar said India has been trying to crush the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people for the past over seven decades through military force, black laws and the worst state violence.
He said the presence of lakhs of Indian soldiers in the occupied territory, daily curfews, sieges, internet and communication restrictions, enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings, mass graves, and crimes against women and children are clear evidence of the hollowness of this so-called democracy.
Sajjad Mir said on August 5, 2019, India unilaterally revoked the special status of occupied Jammu and Kashmir, violating not only United Nations resolutions but also its own Constitution. He said changes in domicile laws, land acquisition, systematic attempts to change the population ratio and settlement of non-local elements are actually demographic invasion, which is aimed at erasing Kashmiri identity, history and resistance consciousness.
He called upon the international community, the United Nations, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, European Union and international human rights organizations to reject India’s false claims of democracy, take notice of the serious human rights violations ongoing in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and play a practical role in ensuring the Kashmiri people their internationally recognized right to self-determination.
