Islamabad, December 10, 2022 (PPI-OT):The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter, today, staged an anti-India protest demonstration in front of the United Nations office in Islamabad on the occasion of World Human Rights Day. The protest demonstration led by APHC-AJK Convener, Mehmood Ahmad Saghar, was aimed at drawing the attention of the world community towards the atrocities being perpetrated by Indian troops on the innocent people in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing the protesters, Hurriyat leaders said that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN on this day in 1948, had agreed that all nations of the world, irrespective of religion and race, would uphold human rights, but India was perpetrating human rights violations in IIOJK despite the fact that it had also signed the declaration.
The Hurriyat leaders said that Indian troops enjoying unbridled powers under draconian law were committing serious crimes against humanity in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. They said that the Indian government was employing all brutal tactics to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing freedom movement but it would never succeed in its nefarious designs and the Kashmiri people would take their freedom movement to its logical conclusion at all costs.
The Hurriyat leaders deplored that India was using new cruel tactics including genocide of Kashmiris to turn the Muslim majority of IIOJK into a minority. They called upon the UN to take serious note of the ongoing terror and torture by India in IIOJK and appoint a Special Rapporteur or a fact finding mission to take stock of the human rights violations in the territory. The Hurriyat leaders also submitted a memorandum to UN office. The memorandum addressed to the Secretary General of the World Body urged him to play his role in the settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris’ aspirations.
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