Srinagar, November 17: Kashmir High Court Bar Association Srinagar Tuesday strongly condemns the thrashing of civilians in Chuntimullah village of Bandipora.
In a statement issued today, General Secretary Bilal Sidiq said protesting against the illegal detention of innocents and demanding their release was not a sin committed by those villagers, for which they were ruthlessly beaten and critically injured, as it was their right to protest and the army was bound to listen to them.
The Bar further stated that Kashmir has been declared a disturbed area in July, 1990, when Mufti Mohammad Syed, was the Home Minister of India, and since then the state has been turned into a fortress and a concentration camp by both Indian Army and the police and people, men, women and children are arrested on mere suspicion and either beaten, maimed or jailed or else eliminated with impunity.
KHCBA said World is watching this spectrum for the last 26 years, with eyes shut. “Even day in and day out arrest of innocent youth, their parents and kith and kin is made and Public Safety Act is slapped on them randomly,” statement reads. “Post Modi’s visit to Kashmir, Dossiers are prepared and detentions under Public Safety Act to muzzle the pro-freedom leaders and their workers is resorted to”.
Bar requests the Amnesty International, Human Rights Group, Asia Watch, OIC and other Human Rights Organizations of the world to take notice of the happening of the Kashmir and force India to stop “genocide of Kashmiris and to concede to the right of self-determination to the people of Kashmir”.
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