Srinagar
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, brutal torture techniques employed by Indian troops have left thousands of Kashmiris disabled for life including 139 losing eyesight in the firing of pellets on peaceful protesters in the territory.
An analytical report released by Kashmir Media Service in connection with the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, today, said, among the most brutal tactics used by Indian troops to disable Kashmiris include firing of bullets, pellets, PAVA and teargas shells during anti-India protests as well as resorting to severe beatings, electric shock, crushing the leg muscles with a wooden roller, burning with heated objects and hanging upside down in interrogation centers.
Besides, bobby traps and mine blasts are also used against the hapless Kashmiris.
Cases of disabilities have increased manifold since New Delhi started using deadly pellets as over three thousand Kashmiris are at the verge of losing vision in one or both eyes.
The report urged the international community to take notice of Indian government’s inhuman act of disabling Kashmiris under a systematic torture mechanism in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Peoples Freedom League has strongly denounced a wave of human rights abuses and atrocities committed by Indian troops across the territory and very recently in the HMT area of Srinagar.
The JKPFL spokesman in an emergency meeting in Srinagar urged the United Nations and world human rights organizations to stop India from perpetuating state terrorism on the innocent and unarmed people of IIOJK. The JKPFL is headed by Muhammad Farooq Rehmani.
He said that the meeting took stock of the situation after the troops and police had resorted to a midnight raid and forced into the residential houses, thrashed and injured men and humiliated women accusing the inhabitants of harboring and supplying food to mujahedeen while the accusations proved to be false as no such armed youth was there.
The spokesman said, the troops and police are in huge numbers encamped in every village and town and all the entry and exit points were under their control. How it could be possible for outsiders or strangers except police informers and collaborators to make their entry possible?, he said.
He added that under the BJP’S Hindu-militancy rule in IIOJK only army roam and rule the roost and anybody daring to question it is picked by police and detained and thus thousands of youth and old aged were languishing in jails far away from their homes in India without any permission to meet the relatives.
The spokesman urged the UN authorities to send their enquiry missions to the occupied territory as required under the UN HCR reports of 2018 and 2019 and remove all hurdles in way of a peaceful and durable settlement according to the UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir.
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, specially-abled persons, today, held a protest demonstration in Srinagar, demanding implementation of Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPDA), 2016 in the territory.
On international day of persons with disabilities, scores of specially-abled persons assembled at Press Enclave in Srinagar and held a protest to press for their demands to be fulfilled.
Holding placards and banners, which read, ‘we want justice’, the protestors demanded implementation of Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 in IIOJK, including reservation in jobs. The demonstrators also highlighted other issued confronted by them.
There are seats reserved for specially-abled persons in buses, but no one adheres to that those guidelines. We don’t have railway cards, which entities us for a rebate in fare. We have been running from pillar to post to get the railway card.—KMS
