The President of World Kashmir Awareness Forum, Dr. Ghulam Nabi Mir has said that under the latest onslaught the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir is being converted from UN-declared con-flict zone into a full-fledged settler-colony of the Indian fascist Hindu Rashtra.
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Mir, representing Kashmir at all day long retreat, organized by USCMO/DHRI (US Council of Muslim Organizations / Democracy and Human Rights Initiative) in Washington said the largest foreign occupation since the 1947, Kashmir remains the largest disenfranchised polity of the world today.
Various international conflicts were discussed during the retreat, including Egypt, Tunisia: Yemen, Libya, Palestine, Kashmir, Rohingya Muslims, In-dian Muslim, Bangladesh, East Turkistan. The retreat proved to be an instructive, effective, and informative exercise.
He pointed out that this is happening despite several resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council with the consent of both India and Pakistan, guaranteeing a free and unfettered plebiscite, re-specting the right to self-determination for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Consequently, Kashmiris have never been allowed to exercise their inherent and God-given right to choose their fundamental human right – the right of self-determination.
Dr Mir added that then came the final human tragedy. On August 5, 2019, the Modi government shocked the Kashmiris and the world by sudden and unilateral abrogation of the internal autonomy of the autonomous State of Jammu & Kashmir. Overnight the most militarized region of the world was flooded with thousands more of Indian troops to impose life-suffocating curfew that lasted over months.
All civilian life activities were paralyzed, schools and businesses closed, and thousands of youths dragged out of their homes and ferried into remote filthy prisons across India. All politicians were jailed, or their homes converted into prisons. Life has never been the same for Kashmiris in the vast open prison called Kashmir, Dr. Mir recounted.
He warned that Indian plans are even more sin-ister than that. Their goal is to complete their origi-nally conceived dream of turning Kashmir from a majority Muslim territory into a majority Hindu locality through forced demographic engineering. That is currently in progress using state terror, land grab, illegal domicile allotment to Indian Hindus and at will incarnation of Muslims in Indian jails. All under the protection of draconian laws, like Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and Public Safety Act, (PSA) to ensure internal population manipulation & internal population fixing and dis-placement. Amnesty International has called PSA, “Lawless Law.—KMS
