Muzaffarabad, (Parliament Times) : Speaker of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Chaudhry Latif Akbar said, “July 13 is the darkest day in the history of Kashmir. On July 13, 1931, the martyrs of Kashmir have made a great story by making eternal sacrifices. The Kashmiri people can never forget the martyrs of 13th July, who were subjected to the brutality of Dogra Raj on this day and have strengthened the struggle for freedom of Kashmir by sacrificing their lives,”
He was talking to representatives of electronic and print media. Referring to history, he reminded that on July 13, 1931, on the orders of the Dogra Raj at that time, the government officials fired and martyred those 22 Kashmiris outside the Srinagar jail who were in the jail along with many others to watch the trial of a Hurriyat leader, Abdul Qadeer.
He added that the day of 13th July 1931 has a fundamental position in the Kashmir Azad movement. The Kashmiri people are still making sacrifices against the illegal domination of India on Kashmir, even if the Indian army’s oppression and imprisonment. It is ongoing but the morale of Hurriyat leaders and Kashmiri people is high.
He has said that today there is a complete strike in occupied Kashmir on the appeal of the Hurriyat leadership. The international community should stop showing indifference to the serious situation of occupied Kashmir and human rights violations.
He said that the Modi government had abolished the special status of Kashmir by amending the Constitution of India on August 5, 2019 and since then, many atrocities are being committed on Kashmiris and restrictions are being imposed on them.
We demand that the international community, including the European Union, Islamic Ummah, and human rights organizations, put pressure on India so that India stops oppressing the people of Occupied Kashmir, withdrawing its occupying forces from Occupied Kashmir, genocide and killing Kashmiris and stop looting, and allow NGOs and human rights organizations to visit Jammu and Kashmir, he said.
Apart from this, the agreements of international organizations regarding human rights and the resolutions of the United Nations regarding the Kashmir issue should be implemented so that sustainable peace would be possible in South Asia.