Srinagar, December 24, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has hailed the British parliamentarians for expressing alarm over the human rights violations including fake encounters by Indian troops in the territory.
As many as 28 members of UK Parliament have written a joint letter to the Indian High Commission in London, seeking its response to reports of flagrant abuses of human rights in the occupied territory. They called for a transparent, credible and independent investigation into the human rights violation cases in IIOJK, pointing to Hyderpora and Amshipora fake encounters in which four and three Kashmiri civilians were martyred by Indian troops in November 2021 and July 2020 respectively.
The lawmakers also expressed shock at the incarceration of prominent rights activist Khurram Parvez by Indian troops and sought an explanation for his detention. The APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar urged the British government to impress upon India to stop genocide, extrajudicial killings, illegal detentions and widespread human rights abuses in the occupied territory.
He said, the British government has a moral obligation to intervene in the Kashmir dispute, keeping in view the political legacy it had in India at the time of historical division of Indian sub-continent wherein Kashmir remained a disputed territory due to brazen violation by India of the Indian Independence Act of 1947, endorsed by the British Kingdom.
The spokesman expressed hope that the British parliament, in the light of the reporting of the human rights abuses in IIOJK by a group of parliamentarians shall approach the European Union and the members of the United Nations to take appropriate measures to ensure the right to self-determination, civil liberties, right to live, freedom of expression and all other fundamental rights, including social, religious and political rights.
Denouncing the frequent cordon and search operations conducted by Indian troops in IIOJK, the APHC spokesman said the Indian forces have let loose a reign of terror and the people feel insecure about their lives, honour and dignity. In absence of rule of law, people are arrested from the roadsides, homes or markets, then taken to public places and killed before the people.
The spokesman appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Council to send its team to IIOJK to take first-hand account of the genocide and human rights abuses perpetrated by Indian forces in the territory and put pressure on India to stop genocide of the people of Kashmir, demanding their inalienable right to self-determination, guaranteed by the United Nations.
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