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MUZAFFARABAD:
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has urged the worldwide group and United Nations to assist finish the most “merciless, inhumane and degrading” remedy of the individuals of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&Ok) by occupation forces,
“We totally agree with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s assertion that torturers mustn’t ever be allowed to get away with their crimes, and programs that allow torture must be dismantled or reworked,” he stated in a video message launched on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture noticed throughout the globe on Friday.
The AJK president stated that torture is a criminal offense in opposition to humanity and it’s prohibited by worldwide regulation and all religions. “Yet, this crime is dedicated on a regular basis by the Indian forces and authorities within the occupied territory, most brutally and systematically.”
He appealed to the United Nations to not generalise and blur the concentrate on torture the place it’s pervasive. In Occupied Kashmir, he stated, torture is most rampant and most egregious.
“Torture has been dedicated by the BJP-RSS regime by reoccupying and colonising Jammu and Kahsmir in opposition to the desire of its 14 million individuals, dividing their state into two components, and implementing decrees whereby all the territory is now dominated by a overseas capital, Delhi.”
While lambasting the Modi-led authorities, President Masood stated: “As we mark this present day at the moment, Kashmiri younger males are hunted down and killed in chilly blood in pretend encounters, demonstrators are blinded and sexual molestation is used as a weapon of warfare.”
Kashmiris, he went on to say, are being disadvantaged of their homeland by bringing Hindus from throughout India and settling them within the occupied territory by way of new domicile guidelines.
“Stripped of their everlasting residence rights, Kashmiris are being robbed of their jobs, livelihoods, companies and land. Systematically, the demography of the disputed valley is being altered completely.”
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The AJK president stated what India is doing in occupied area is a warfare crime in line with the Fourth Geneva Convention, the ICC Statute and worldwide humanitarian regulation.
Referring to arbitrary arrest of political leaders and political activists, he stated 1000’s of political detainees – illegally incarcerated – are being subjected to the vicious torture main in lots of situations to dying and incapacity.
President Masood demanded that political prisoners within the Tihar jail in India – Yasin Malik, Asiya Indrabi, Shabbir Shah – must be launched forthwith and Syed Ali Geelani and different Hurriyet leaders – tons of of them holed up in cramped prisons – must be let out.
Some 13,000 boys and youngsters, as younger as 10, are caged in focus camps the place they’re being tortured and brainwashed, he stated whereas calling for the worldwide group led by the United Nations to play ts position for his or her launch.
He additionally made a requirement that India must be requested to repeal all draconian legal guidelines that empower occupation forces to commit crimes with impunity.
“Kashmiris are residents of planet Earth. Listen to their screams of SOS. Save their our bodies; save their souls. Silence too is a criminal offense whereas such huge torture is going down proper earlier than our eyes.”
