M. S HAIDRI
Muzaffarabad: Chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat Uzair Ahmad Ghazali said that children in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir seeks world conscience attention on Indian armed forces atrocities particularly on children and adolescents.
In a statement issued here on the occasion International Children’s Day, while drawing the attention of the international community and human rights organizations to the plight of millions of children of the state of Jammu and Kashmir under the forced occupation of India, Uzair said, “The biggest victims of India’s brutal occupation are the innocent children of Kashmir.”
“Kashmiri children are being killed by Indian soldiers under a systematic plan”, he maintained.
“Since 1989, more than 107,890 children have been made orphans in Jammu and Kashmir, including Tufail Mattu, while more than 1,100 innocent children have been martyred by Indian soldiers”, he lamented.
He said that hundreds of Kashmiri children lost their eye sight due to the deadly pellet gun attacks of Indian soldiers.
Moreover, he said that Indian armed forces nefarious acts are obvious and by such acts they are trying to convert the Muslim majority state into minority.
Chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat called upon the international community, human rights organizations to put pressure on the Modi government to promote and protect the rights of Kashmiri children in accordance with international laws and norms.
He also demanded the UN and other organizations around the world to take notice of the war crimes committed by Indian soldiers against Kashmiri children.
“Kashmiri children seeks world attention including the United Nations, OIC and other human rights organizations as they should feel the pain, fear and helplessness of millions of children in the Indian occupied state of Jammu and Kashmir and play their role for the provision of their basic rights”, he added.