{"id":110335,"date":"2021-01-03T16:56:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T23:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110335"},"modified":"2021-01-03T16:56:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T23:56:42","slug":"new-tales-of-atrocities-in-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/03\/new-tales-of-atrocities-in-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW TALES OF ATROCITIES IN KASHMIR"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Human\nrights abuses in the Indian Occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir have made\nthe lives of the local people simply a hell. From mass killings to enforced\ndisappearances and from torture and sexual abuse to political repression and from\nban on freedom of speech to rape; the tale of miseries never comes to an end\nthere. The helpless people of Indian Occupied Kashmir have to face the\ncruelties not only of the Indian Army troops deputed there but also of the Central\nReserve Police Force, Border Security Personnel and various personnel of the\nIndian intelligence agencies. Hundreds of Kashmiri leaders have been sent\nbehind the bars just for raising their voices against the Indian atrocities in\nthe valley. Throughout the world various human rights organizations have been\nprotesting against this cruelty but yet there is no one to listen to their\nprotesting voices. A very notable intensity has been observed in the Indian\natrocities after Modi\u2019s decision of scrapping of the semi-autonomous status of\nthe Jammu and Kashmir region in August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan,\nbeing the only one to listen to the helpless Kashmiris, has always tried to\nraise its voice in favour of the Kashmiris. A few days back Pakistan\u2019s Foreign\nMinistry issued a statement which said that Pakistan is very much worried about\ncontinued incarceration and deteriorating health conditions of pro-freedom\nKashmiri leaders who have been stuffed into prisons for raising their voices in\nfavour of the Kashmiris. These Kashmiri leaders have been illegally arrested\nover malicious, false, and fabricated charges by the Indian government through\ninvoking draconian laws promulgated in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu &\nKashmir (IIOJK),\u201d said the statement. These leaders include Asiya Andrabi, the\nfounding leader of Kashmiri organization Dukhtaran-i-Millat or Daughters of\nNation; Shabbir Ahmed Shah, the leader and founder of the Jammu and Kashmir\nDemocratic Freedom Party, and prominent leaders such as Yasin Malik, Masarat\nAlam Bhat, Mohammad Ashraf Sehraie and others. Most of them are in New Delhi\u2019s Tihar\njail where the pandemic of Covid-19 is at its worst. Many of the other leaders like\nAli Shah Gilani and Mir Waiz Umar Farooq have been under house arrest for a\nlong time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expressing\nits deep concern over the maltreatment with the Kashmiri leaders, Pakistan\u2019s\nForeign Office said, Imprisonment and torturing of Kashmiri leaders on the\nbasis of their political ideology and struggle against illegal Indian\noccupation is a true reflection of the extremist mindset of the RSS-BJP regime\nwhich has no respect for the human rights of the Kashmiri people.\u201d Islamabad\nurged the international community, particularly the UN, and human rights and\nhumanitarian organizations to take notice of the Indian government\u2019s inhuman\ntreatment of the Kashmiri leaders and raise its voice for their immediate\nrelease from illegal Indian detention.\u201d Security forces in Indian-administered\nKashmir have been accused of carrying out beatings and torture in the wake of\nthe government’s decision to strip the region of its autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\nfew months back, the BBC sent a correspondent to the valley to see the\non-ground realities. The correspondent reported that several villagers had told\nhim they were beaten with sticks and cables, and given electric shocks. Many of\nthe villagers showed him the injuries inflicted upon them. \u2018Tens of thousands\nof extra troops have been deployed to the region and about 3,000 people,\nincluding political leaders, businesspeople and activists, are reported to have\nbeen detained. Many have been moved to prisons outside the state,\u2019 says the\nreport. According to a report prepared by Kashmir Media Service in the Indian\nOccupied Kashmir, more than 275 people were killed in the year 2020 by the\nIndian security forces. More than 60 women were brutally raped by the Indian\nforces in the same year. The report said that since 1990, Indian army has\nmartyred over 100,000 Kashmiris, widowed 22,000 women, orphaned 108,000\nchildren and raped more than 11,000 women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According\nto the latest reports lady Asia Andrabi, a very active leader of Kashmir was\narrested in 2018 along with her assistants Nahida Nasreen and Fehmida Sofi and\nshifted to the Tihar Jail. The arrested women were accused of sedition and\nanti-India activities and foreign funding by India\u2019s National Investigation\nAgency the NIA. After completion of the so-called investigations the NIA sent\nthe charge sheet to NIA\u2019s Special Court. Recently on 21 December the NIA Court\nstarted hearing of this case. Sources say that in the second week of January\n2021, the NIA Court is going to give its verdict against these three women.\nThis verdict would simply add a new chapter to the book of State-Cruelties in\nthe Indian Occupied Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last\nOctober Mr. Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan also complained\nabout India\u2019s hostility on Kashmir issue and said that this brutal behavior\nposes a serious threat to peace and security in the region. Addressing the\nvirtual meeting of Conservative Friends of Pakistan, the said he has written a\nnumber of letters to the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security\nCouncil on the Indian posture but has yet not received any response. He further\nsaid that India should be pressurized to stop human rights violations in the\noccupied territory and move towards resolution of the Kashmir dispute as per\nthe UN Security Council resolutions. In spite of all these efforts by Pakistan,\nthe Kashmiris in the Indian Occupied Kashmir are continuously living in a hell\nof hatred and indignation. No one knows when this turmoil is going to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER Human rights abuses in the Indian Occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir have made the lives of the local people simply a hell. From mass killings to enforced disappearances and from torture and sexual abuse to political repression and from ban on freedom of speech to rape; the tale of miseries never comes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ali-sukhanver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}