THERE is no end to occupying forces’ brutalities in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) while international community continues to turn it back to them that once again speak volume of its double standard for human rights.
According to a report by Kashmir Media Service (KMS) issued on Saturday, Indian troops killed 210 Kashmiris including five women and as many as young boys besides detaining thousands of them in the year 2021.
Just in the month of December, 31 Kashmiris were killed.The fact of the matter is that Indian authorities have broken all records of brutalities in the occupied valley especially ever since stripping its special status back in August 2019.
While efforts are on to change demographic structure of the occupied territory in complete contravention of international laws, occupying authorities are employing every possible tactics to make lives of locals miserable in order to suppress their voice for independence.
The Muslims are not being allowed to offer Friday or Eid prayers in mosques while families are also being denied opportunity to perform final rituals of their martyrs as per Islamic traditions.
The KMS report also rightly makes note of events following veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Shah Gilani’s death wherein his body was snatched from his family members and was buried in a tightly controlled pre-dawn ceremony as Indian authorities imposed a lockdown across occupied territory.
Indian authorities have detained entire Kashmiri leadership and they are being denied basic facilities including medical treatment.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Leader leader Yasin Malik is not being released despite being in critical condition over last few years.
The people of Kashmir are today looking towards international community as to how much more blood they will have to render to get the promised right of self-determination as per UN Security Council resolutions.
There is a general sense prevailing that had inhabitants of Kashmir and Palestine were non-Muslims, they would have got independence from occupying forces long ago.
We have before us the example of East Timor and South Sudan.The world must not forget that peace and stability will remain elusive until and unless these two outstanding disputes stay unresolved.
Instead of shutting eyes on atrocities of India and Israel, justice warrants that their leaders are tried for war crimes.
The UN must fulfil its responsibility and investigate India’s systematic and widespread human rights violations in IIOJK so that true story of pain and agony of Kashmiri people comes before the world.
Greater responsibility rests with the OIC to truly become the voice of oppressed Muslims.
Passing resolutions will not bring any change on the ground until Muslim countries collectively take practical steps to heal the wounds of Kashmiris and Palestinians.
We once again suggest that OIC countries cut-off their trade and diplomatic relations with India and Israeli till they end their killing spree and allow the Kashmiri and Palestinian people to determine their own future.
