As the World Human Rights Day is being observed across the globe, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir continues to reel under violent and brutal Indian occupation and political injustice. A report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of the World Human Rights Day, today, said that Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948 was indeed a milestone, but the Kashmiris human rights continued to be violated with impunity. It said among 30 basic human rights enlisted in the UDHR, not even one exists in IIOJK.

The report said that Indian occupational forces had been violating the UDHR in the occupied territory for the last over 7 decades and mercilessly killing, arresting, torturing, harassing and humiliating innocent Kashmiris of every age and gender for demanding their right to self-determination. The report pointed out that Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism have martyred 96,156 innocent Kashmiris including 7,275 in custody and fake encounters since January 1989 till date. It said that these killings rendered 22,952 women widowed and 107,887 children orphaned.

It said that the troops molested or disgraced 11,256 women and damaged 110,495 residential houses and other structures. It maintained that Indian troops and police personnel subjected over 8,000 people to custodial disappearance during the period.The report maintained that thousands of young school boys and girls were also injured by the pellets fired by the troops while dozens including19-month-old Hibba Jan, Asif Ahmed Sheikh (10), Aaqib Zahoor (16), Ulfat Hameed (17), Bilal Ahmed Butt (17), Insha Mushtaq, Tariq Ahmed Gojri (19) and Faizan Ashraf Tantray (19) lost their eyesight completely due to the pellet injuries.The report pointed out that Indian troops during this year alone so far have martyred 207 Kashmiris including APHC leader, Altaf Ahmed Shah.

It said that most of the victims were killed by the troops during cordon and search operations in fake encounters and custody, it said.The report pointed out that 723 Kashmiris including 13 women have been martyred, 151 of them in fake encounters and custody, since repeal of special status of IIOJK by Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government on 5th August 2019 in the territory. It said that the troops molested 126 women after barging into the residential houses in the period.The report said that the occupation authorities did not allow people to hold religious gatherings like Muharram and Eid Milad-un-Nabi (SAW) processions during this period.

The report said Hurriyat leaders, youth, Ulemas and activists including APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Fehmeeda Sofi, Naheeda Nasreen, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Yousuf, Ghulam Muhammad Butt, and human rights defender Khurrum Parviaz continue to remain in detention in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail in fake cases registered against them.

Thousands of people including Hurriyat leaders and activists Dr Abdul Hameed Fayaz, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Molvi Bashir Ahmed, Zafar Akbar Butt, Muhammad Sharif Sartaj, Maulana Mushtaq Ahmad Veeri, Abdul Rashid Dawoodi, Muhammad Yousuf Mir, Muhammad Yusuf Falahi, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Hayat Ahmed Butt, Feroz Ahmed Khan, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Ghulam Muhammad Butt, human rights activist Muhammad Ahsan Untoo and journalist, Aasif Sultan, remain lodged in different jails of IIOJK and India under black law, Public Safety Act, it added.

The report maintained that the occupation authorities have kept the senior AHPC leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house detention since 05 August 2019 and have not allowed him to carry out his political activities and even he has not been allowed to offer Friday prayers and address public meetings. The report pointed out that this is high time for the world community to come forward in a big way and impress upon India to stop its state terrorism in IIOJK and give the Kashmiris their right to self-determination. Meanwhile, Hurriyat leaders in their separate statements have appealed to the United Nations and international human rights organizations to send their teams to take stock of the worst human rights situation in the occupied territory.

Credit : Independent News Pakistan-INP