The Convener of All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK), Muham-mad Farooq Rehmani has paid rich tribute to the victims of Gaw Kadal massacre and all other Kash-miri martyrs. Indian troops had killed more than 50 innocent people by resorting to indiscriminate firing on peaceful demonstrators in Gaw Kadal area of Srina-gar on January 21 in 1990. The demonstrators were protesting against the molestation of several women by troops, the previous night.
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement is-sued in Islamabad called for bringing to book the killer regime of India under the international hu-manitarian law. He said that Gaw Kadal was the beginning of an unimaginable episode and one after another massacres were designed by the Indian agencies in 1990s. Another dark aspect of all such blind killings by the Indian forces, he lamented, is that no impartial investigation was conducted and no criminal in uniform was tried or sentenced ever.”
The APHC-AJK Convener deplored that the question of Kashmir’s freedom had long been kept under carpet and the international community and economic powers were criminally mum. He added that economic prowess was being managed and manipulated without giving the oppressed people of Kashmir and Palestine and other subjugated regions their economic and political rights to shape their future and develop their own resources.—KMS
