New Delhi, October 21, 2022 (PPI-OT): Illegally detained All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, paying rich tributes to the Bijbehara martyrs on the eve of their martyrdom anniversary has reaffirmed the Kashmiris’ resolve to continue their struggle till realization of their inalienable right to self-determination. Over 50 innocent Kashmiris were martyred in Bijbehara area of Islamabad district on October 22, 1993, when the Indian Border Security Force personnel opened fire on the peaceful demonstrators, who were protesting against the Indian military siege of Srinagar’s Hazratbal shrine.
The incarcerated chairman of APHC in a message from New Delhi’s notorious Tihar jail urged the people to forge greater unity in their ranks and continue their political struggle in line with the United Nations Charter and the relevant resolutions of the global body without any doubt in the righteousness and victory of their genuine cause. He said that the people of Kashmir were being forced to surrender their historical cultural identity and a wedge was being created between Muslims and Kashmiri Pandits to trigger communal discard in the territory.
He condemned grave human rights violations by Indian troops in IIOJK and iron-fisted policy adopted by the Modi regime against the Kashmiris and urged the UN to take action with regard to the worsening situation in the occupied territory. Masarrat Aalam Butt while paying homage to the martyrs of Bijbehara said the Kashmiris would never forget those who sacrificed their lives for the sacred cause of freedom.
He reiterated his call for an impartial inquiry into the Bijbehara massacre and all other such massacres and killings by the occupation troops in Kashmir. He maintained that till the Kashmir dispute was not resolved in line with the UN resolutions and the perpetrators of heinous crimes against the Kashmiris were not brought to justice, innocent human lives would continue to be lost and uncertainty would persist in the region.
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