International Justice Day has no meaning for IIOJK’s oppressed people

Justice continues to elude the struggling people of Jammu and Kashmir even as International Justice Day is being commemorated across the globe, today.

A report released by Kashmir Media Service, today, in connection with the International Justice Day maintained that the defenseless and oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir continue to suffer under the Indian colonialism for their commitment to the righteous demand of right to self -etermination.

The report said Kashmiris continue to face deepening atrocities, discrimination and injustice on the part of India. Indian troops, paramilitary forces and police personnel enjoying impunity under draconian laws are committing grave human rights abuses, in fact, war crimes to suppress the just struggle for right to self determination, it added.

It said massacres, fake encounters, custodial killings, arrests, atrocities and harassment by Indian troops and seizing of houses and property by India’s dreaded National Investigation Agency and State Investigation Agency are order of the day in IIOJK.

The report deplored that justice had not been delivered to the victims of mass killings like massacres of Gaw Kadal, Chota Bazar, Zakoor-Tengpora, Khaniyar, Chattisingpora, Kupwara, Handwara, Sopore, Bijbehara, Kishtwar, Doda and Shopian and Kunanposhpora mass rape, Shopian double rape and murder and rape and murder of Kathua minor girl in the territory.

The report said the Indian judiciary is biased against the Kashmiris and it never provided justice to them as Indian courts had not punished a single Indian soldier or policeman involved in war crimes in IIOJK.

It said that the Indian judiciary, without fulfilling the basic requirements of justice, sentenced the Kashmiri liberation leaders, Muhammad Maqbool Butt and Muhammad Afzal Guru and martyred Shaikh Abdul Aziz, jailed Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai just for being Kashmiris.

The report pointed out that thousands of Kashmiris, including Hurriyat leaders Masarrat Aalam Butt, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Syed Shakeel Yousuf, Muzaffar Ahmad Dar, Ghulam Muhammad Butt, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Maulvi Bashir Ahmed, Bilal Siddiqi, Zafar Akbar Butt, Muhammad Yousuf Mir, Muhammad Yusuf Falahi, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Ameer Hamza, Hayat Ahmed Butt, Dr Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Muhammad Qasim Faktoo, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Abdul Rashid Dawoodi, Mushtaq Ahmad Veeri, Abdul Majeed Dar Almadni, Muhammad Sharief Sartaj, Noor Muhammd Fayaz, Eng Rashid, human rights activists, Khurram Parviaz and journalists Aasif Sultan and Fahad Shah had been languishing in different jails of India and the territory and were yet to receive justice. Senior APHC leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq continues to remain under house detention in Srinagar since August 2019.

The report said India is brazenly trampling every right of people in IIOJK.

It lamented that global silence is only emboldening the Modi regime to systematically increase its aggression against the Kashmiris.

Meanwhile, the APHC leaders Abdul Ahad Parra, Maulvi Ghulam Hassan, Dr Musaib and Yasmeen Raja in their separate statements issued in Srinagar while deploring that Kashmiri people remained deprive of Justice said the people of Jammu and Kashmir in their own territory are facing Indian atrocities but are determined to take their righteous demand of plebiscite movement to its logical conclusion.

Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Chairman Uzair Ahmed Ghazali in a statement in Muzaffarabad appealed the international community for Justice in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

He said the world conscience must take decisive steps for peace in South Asia. He said the people of Kashmir have been demanding justice from the world for their freedom, political, social, religious and basic human rights for the past 76 years.