Altaf Hamid Rao
GENEVA: (Switzerland)(Parliament Times) : Seeking urgent attention of United Nations Human Rights Council [UNHRC], veteran Kashmiri human rights activist Altaf Hussain Wani has urged upon the world human rights forum to immediately move to get stopped the continual increased human rights abuses on the part of the Indian occupational forces against innocent population in Indian Illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir state.
Our Special Jammu Kashmir Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao reports that while addressing the ongoing 5th Session of United Nations Human Rights Council under agenda item 4 General debate on behalf of the World Muslim Congress in Swiss city of Geneva on Friday, Altaf Hussain Wanu , also senior APHC leader and Chairman Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR), said “for the last 76 six years and more importantly since last 34 years people of Kashmir are reeling under brutal military occupation, Custodial killings, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, sexual abuse , destruction of properties, torture continue with impunity.
Wani continued as saying “as anticipated the abrogation of article 370 and 35 A was a pretext to implement settler colonialism and mass land grab by India the occupying power. “The Hague regulations of 1907 and 4 Geneva convention has laid certain restrictions and responsibilities on occupier.
Occupier dose not acquire sovereignty on territory, and has to respect laws enforce in occupied territory”, he added.
The Kashmiri leader said that India was shifting population to occupied territory and confiscating property of citizens of occupied territory which is violation of Hague regulations.
He pointed out that most recently Indian state of maharashtra has bought land in ocvupied state of Jammu and Kashmir which is not only illegal as per state subject laws but also an attempt to deprive indigenous people of land and their rights which are protected through United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Indian has put Kashmiri land on sale to Indian realtors, Given military power to occupy any land with out consent of local authority, , he said and added that development means to Indian in IIOJK was opening of liquor shops, construction of Temples, new military contoonments and Hindu pilgrimage sites , to systematically erase Kashmir’s political,religious and cultural identity, who are already humiliated, dismembered, disempowered and disenfranchised, he concluded.