Gilani urges world bodies to help stop HR violations in IHK

Srinagar, December 08 (KMS): Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, has urged the Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other international human rights organizations to help stop rights violations being committed by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir.

Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the rights abuses in the occupied territory had become a test case for the world human rights organizations and if they continued to ignore the issue the suppressed people and nations would lose their faith in such bodies.

Meanwhile, the forum patronized by the veteran Hurriyet leader has announced to hold a seminar, “Resolution of the Kashmir Dispute - Only Guarantee for Peace” in Srinagar on December 12. The seminar would be organized in connection with the International Human Rights Day being observed across the world on December 10. Besides Syed Ali Gilani, prominent human rights activists will address the seminar.

“While as the whole world would be celebrating the human rights day, it is important for us to remind the international community that Kashmir is the most militarized region in the world, where Indian forces have been subjecting Kashmiris to the worst kind of human rights violations and Indian Army generals are responsible for war crimes in Kashmir,” Syed Ali Gilani said.

He pointed out that this year alone over 150 Kashmiris, most of them teenagers and youth, were killed by the Indian forces, but none of the perpetrators was prosecuted or punished.

Source: Kashmir Media Service.
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