Srinagar, January 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, senior APHC leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has asked people of Jammu and Kashmir to register their strong protest against India’s policy of severe repression by observing its Republic Day as a Black Day in the territory, tomorrow.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who is under house detention in a statement issued in Srinagar said that for the past 75 years people of Kashmir are demanding the right to self-determination that Indian leadership promised to them not only in the United Nations or the Indian Parliament, but at Lal Chowk in Srinagar by none other than Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawhar Lal Nehru, himself. However, till this day not only the commitment has not been fulfilled but those that remind India of its pledges are rewarded with bullets and pellets and detention, he added.

The senior APHC leader said a nation that prides itself on being a representative democracy chosen by the free will of its people is executing tyranny and suppression to forcibly exert its will over the people of Kashmir. Ten of thousands of Indian armed forces’ personnel are deployed to suppress the aspirations of people and draconian laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Public Safety Act (PSA) are invoked to ensure people’s sentiments do not get out of hand, he added.

Hundreds of people including the entire leadership have been lodged in jails or are under illegal and arbitrary house arrest, whose only crime is the demand for restoration of basic human and political rights right of the Kashmiri people. “Every voice raised for it is muzzled through military might. Our youth are targeted and killed. All means of protest are barred and curbed for us,” he said.

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