In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders, Farida Bahenji and Yasmeen Raja, have expressed serious concern over the surge in Indian state terrorism in the territory.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Farida Bahenji and Yasmeen Raja in a joint statement is-sued in Srinagar said described the prevailing situa-tion in the occupied territory as extremely grim with regard to the protection of civilians.
They said that the Kashmiris were facing so-called cordon and search operations by Indian troops, raids by India’s notorious National Investi-gation Agency, termination of government employ-ees, arrest of students, businessmen, journalists, lawyers, intellectuals and political activists.
The APHC leaders said that fascist Modi gov-ernment was victimizing the people of IIOJK for demanding their right to self-determination and trying to communalize all institutions of the terri-tory.
They said extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, torture, ill-treatment of women, ban on political activities and violation of all basic human rights by Indian troops had become a norm in the occupied territory. They urged UN Secretary General, Anto-nio Guterres, to take immediate notice of the sys-tematic genocide of Kashmiris by the Indian forces in IIOJK and put pressure on India to give the Kashmiris the right to decide their political future by themselves.—INP
