Mirwaiz urges human rights bodies to take note of JKCCS report
Srinagar: Hurriyat Conference (M) has termed the report released by a rights group about torture by Indian Government forces on the people of Kashmir as an “eye-opener for all those who believe in sanctity and dignity of the human life and spirit”.
The 560—page report released recently by the J&K Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) has also been endorsed by former UN special rapporteur, Juan E Mendez.
In a statement issued here, Hurriyat (M) termed the incidents of torture in the report as “shocking”.
“The grotesque human rights violations including those mentioned in the report are committed due to legal, political and moral impunity extended to the armed forces,” the statement said.
It said that “not a single prosecution has taken place in any case of human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir”.
Hurriyat (M) has sought immediate attention of world bodies including United Nations Human Rights Council, Amnesty International, and others towards the report.
The Hurriyat faction has urging them to take “strong note of the shocking revelations made in the report and build pressure on New Delhi to stop brutal human rights violations in Kashmir that includes innocent killings, mass arrests, inflicting worst torture on youth after arresting them so that such violations taking place in Kashmir are stopped forthwith”.
It said that torture was “nothing new in Kashmir and from past several decades such incidents were taking place where in youth, women and elderly have been brutally tortured by the government forces while as many women subjected to sexual abuse”.
“Those who say ‘Kashmir torture’ is a thing of the past should update themselves by going through the incident of the death of a youth Rizwan Asad Pandit of Awantipora who was killed in Police custody,” it said.
Meanwhile, a Hurriyat Conference (M) spokesman paid rich tributes to two militants- Zahid Ahmed Mantoo and Irfan Manzoor Bhat-killed in Kulgam encounter.
The Hurriyat (M) said that there was “no let up in the bloodshed even in the holy month of fasting in Kashmir and it is all because of the ultimate oppression unleashed by the GoI on the youth of Kashmir which pushes the youth to take extreme steps”.
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