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| Mirwaiz appeals world bodies to play their role in preventing Indian army from committing alleged crimes against Kashmiri civilians | | 
Srinagar, May 26, (Scoop News)-APHC leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq made a fervent appeal to the United Nations, UNHRC, ICJ, and international human rights bodies to take a note and play their role in preventing Indian military from committing alleged crimes against Kashmiri civilians especially in the backdrop of Govt of India and its Army chief honoring an army major for using a civilian Farooq Ahmed Dar as human shields tying him to an army jeep and parading him for hours.
Addressing the Friday congregational gathering at the historic Jamia Masjid in downtown Srinagar, while protesting this abominable act, Mirwaiz said that Kashmiri people are being subject to worst forms of alleged atrocities at the hands of forces over the past 30 years in particular with impunity and there is hardly any method of repression which has been left unused against us.
All this because we are demanding our fundamental right to decide our destiny, he said.
Referring to the incident that took place in Budgam district on April 9, Mirwaiz said that Farooq Ahmed Dar who was a passerby was grabbed by the forces beat up ruthlessly with hands tied back and then tied him to the bonnet with the sign "I am a stone pelted" hung around his neck and paraded for 7 hours through various villages to the shock and horror of the locals as they saw him, even denying him water and was later tied to a tree in the CRPF camp before being released.
While announcements were being made on the loudspeaker of the jeep that this is the way locals will be treated. Mirwaiz said that the whole episode was not on the moment decision as claimed by the major, but a well thought out idea because if according to the major it was to save his team from stone pelting why was Farooq Ahmed paraded for seven long hours through many villages?
The objective of this incident was twofold he said revenge and retribution from the locals and to send a clear and stern message to the locals and the people of Kashmir in general that this is how they will be treated if they dare to stand up for their rights.
APHC leader said that by felicitating the army officer for this anti-human act the Government of India and its army chief have blurred the lines between a fascist regime and a so-called democratic one and shamed those Indians and people of the world who are shocked and appalled by this military approach to deal with a people's movement.... |
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