MIRPUR (AJK): (Parliament Times) Seeking international human rights organizations’ attention towards the gross human rights violations in Indian held territory of Jammu and Kashmir the head of 8-member Kashmir delegation Altaf Hussain Wani has urged the UNHRC to play its pivotal role to put an immediate end to the continued killing of innocent Kashmiris at the hands of the Indian occupation forces in the bleeding vale of Kashmir.
Speaking at the ongoing 35th session of the UN Human Right Council in Geneva Tuesday, Wani recalled that the right to self-determination of people of Jammu and Kashmir is recognized by the United Nations Security Council.
“But Indian government’s unwillingness to honor its commitments has forced people of the disputed territory to resist the Indian occupationâ€, he underlined.
“We call upon government of India to end its military repression in the occupied Kashmir and create environment for implementation of UN resolution on Kashmirâ€, Wani said.
Altaf Hussain Wani said that the Indian militarized state repression has caused death and destruction in Indian occupied Kashmir. Nearly 100, 00 thousand killed, 10,00 + disappeared and 12 hundred partially or fully blinded.
The Kashmiri leader said that heavy military presence with blank impunity over rides all human rights including right to life. The criminal silence of international community has encouraged India to kill blind and maim the children in Kashmir. Children, youth, journalists, and rights defenders no one is spared, he said.
“It only happens in Indian occupied Kashmir where stray bullets always target chest of teenaged girls and boysâ€, Wani said. “Be it 5 year old girl Kenza and 15 year Amir the latest targets of Indian brave army. On 16th of March, Photojournalists were assaulted and tortured by the Indian police and paramilitary forces, those assaulted include the occupied Kashmir based Correspondent Touseef Musta of Agency France Press (AFP)â€, the Kashmiri leader pointed out.
The Kashmiri leader revealed that the World Conference on Human Rights considers the denial of the right of self-determination as a violation of human rights and underlines the importance of the effective realization of this right. “Taking into account the particular situation of peoples under colonial or other forms of alien domination or foreign occupation, the World Conference on Human Rights recognizes the right of peoples to take any legitimate action, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, to realize their inalienable right of self-determinationâ€, he added
