International Justice Day has no meaning for oppressed people in IIOJK
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Islamabad: Justice continues to elude the struggling people of Jammu and Kashmir even as International Justice Day is being commemorated across the globe, today.
A report released by Kashmir Media Service, today, in connection with the International Justice Day maintained that the defenseless and oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir continue to suffer under the Indian colonialism for their commitment to the righteous demand of right to self -determination .
The report said Kashmiris continue to face deepening atrocities, discrimination and injustice on the part of India. Indian force personnel enjoying impunity under draconian laws Armed Forces Special Power Act (AFSPA) are committing grave human rights violations and atrocities, in fact, war crimes and brutal acts to suppress the just demand of their right to self determination promised by India in United resolutions, it added.
It said massacres, fake encounters, custodial killings, arrests, atrocities, mass graves, harassment, economic crunch and curbing of political activism and seizing of houses and property by the Indian BJP regime, its forces including National Investigation Agency and State Investigation Agency are the order of the day in IIOJK.
The report deplored that justice had not been delivered to the victims of mass killings like extra judicial killing, massacres of Gaw Kadal, Chota Bazar, Zakoor-Tengpora, Khaniyar, Chattisingpora, Kupwara, Handwara, Sopore, Bijbehara, Kishtwar, Doda and Shopian and Kunanposhpora mass rape, Shopian double rape and murder and rape and murder of Kathua minor girl in the territory.
The report said the Indian judiciary is biased against the Kashmiris and it never provided justice to them as Indian courts had not punished a single Indian soldier or policeman involved in war crimes in IIOJK.
It said that the Indian judiciary, without fulfilling the basic requirements of justice, sentenced the Kashmiri liberation leaders, Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru and martyred Shaikh Abdul Aziz, jailed Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and Altaf Ahmed Shah just for being Kashmiris.
The report pointed out that thousands of Kashmiris, including APHC Chairman, Masarrat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Molvi Bashir Ahmed, Bilal Siddiqi, Zafar Akbar Butt, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Hayat Ahmed Butt, Dr Muhammad Qasim Faktoo, Dr Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Fayaz Hussain Jaferi, Noor Muhammd Fayaz, Muhammad Yasin Bhat, Umar Adil Dar, Saleem Nanaji, human rights activists, Khurram Parviaz and journalist, Irfan Majeed had been languishing in different jails of India and the territory and were yet to receive justice.
The report said India is brazenly trampling every right of people in IIOJK. It lamented that global silence is only emboldening the Indian BJP regime to systematically increase its aggression against the Kashmiris.
Meanwhile, the APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement issued in Srinagar while deploring that Kashmiri people remained deprive of Justice said the people of Jammu and Kashmir in their own territory are facing Indian atrocities but are determined to take their righteous demand of plebiscite movement to its logical conclusion.
APHC-AJK leaders have also urged the international community to come forward for delivery of justice to the oppressed Kashmiri people said the world conscience must take decisive steps for peace in South Asia. They said the people of Kashmir have been demanding justice from the world for their freedom, political, social, religious and basic human rights for the past 78 years.
