Srinagar, Jul 20 (KNS): Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Muhammad Yasin Malik said the ‘ongoing reign of terror’ unleashed by Army, SOG and forces throughout Kashmir especially in southern and northern districts of Kashmir including Pulwama, Shopian, Kulgam, Islamabad, Bandipora, Kupwara etc is ‘naked terrorism’.
In a statement issued to KNS, Malik said that recent nocturnal crackdown at Mochwara Shopian during which men in uniform went berserk and tortured men, women, children and elders of whole village, vandalized and destroyed residential houses, vehicles and peoples properties as ‘an example of colonial mindset’ in the garb of democracy.
Malik said that “desecration of graveyards and other religious places, attacks on families of rivals, destroying residential houses, orchards, paddy fields, beating to pulp everyone who comes their way without the discrimination of age and gender, incarcerating and torturing political leaders and activists and terrorizing whole villages and families can only be termed as inhuman, unethical acts of cowardice and terrorism in uniform.”
He said that “when news, photos and videos of this reign of terror comes to forth, Army spokesman and the rulers immediately come up with unashamed responses, shamelessly denying everything and belying those oppressed.”
“Though oppression is going on in Jammu Kashmir from last many years, but after the imposition of Governors rule in Jammu Kashmir, this oppression has increased alarmingly and it has in fact beaten all previous records,” he said.
Malik said that Kashmir is burning and Kashmiris are being terrorized by the biggest democracy but no one is paying heed to the cries of Kashmiris. “Our young and old are being slaughtered, arrested, tortured, tormented and humiliated with impunity by Indian occupational army, police, and forces. Our villages are being attacked, vandalized, houses destroyed and inhabitants beaten ruthlessly but no one seems to bother or feel any pain or responsibility to stop this,” he added in a statement issued here.
Malik said that Kashmiris are also part of human kind, they also have human rights and human dignity and it is the responsibility of fellow humans to come to their rescue and stop those hands which are unleashing oppression on them.
He said that recent UN report on Kashmir has raised hopes among Kashmiris and this report now needs a serious follow up so that Kashmiris are saved from the wrath of the Indian oppressors.
Condemning the plight of Kashmiri inmates languishing in different jails of India including Tihar Jail and the jails of Jammu Kashmir, Malik said that “thousands of young and old are being terrorized and tortured in jails and police along with the civil authorities are employing every tactic to prolong their incarceration.”
“Recently an inmate Ghulam Hassan Malik @ Noor Khan breathed his last in Kot-balwal Jail. This dying human was tied to a chain even on death bed which speaks volumes about the oppressors,” Malik said.
He said that ICRC and other international human rights organizations should take a note of these atrocities being committed on Kashmiri inmates and use their good offices to provide relief to these inmates. (KNS)