Special Desk: Indian forces personnel, in their unabated acts of state terrorism, martyred seven Kashmiris, including a young boy, during the last month of September in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

According to the data issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service today, three of those martyred were killed in fake encounters and in custody.
Indian forces’ indiscriminate firing on defenseless protesters also killed four civilians in Leh town of Ladakh region. The people were protesting for their political rights, including statehood and Sixth Schedule status.
During the month, Indian forces personnel, during 163 cordon-and-search operations and house raids, arrested at least 351 civilians and political activists, including renowned climate activist Sonam Wangchuk. Most of them were booked under black laws such as the Public Safety Act (PSA), the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), and the National Security Act (NSA).
At least 101 people were critically injured when Indian paramilitary and police personnel used brute force, firing bullets and pellets on peaceful demonstrators during the month. The killings rendered two women widowed and seven children orphaned.
Additionally, intensifying its colonial-style suppression, the highly communal and corrupt administration led by BJP’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, under the direct control of the Indian Home Minister, seized nine properties, including residential houses and agricultural lands. These illegal confiscations are part of the BJP-led Indian government’s strategy to economically strangle Kashmiris and suppress their political demand for plebiscite and their aspirations.
Meanwhile, over 3,000 Hurriyat leaders, activists, youth, students, ulema, journalists, and human rights defenders, including APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Mohammad Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Molvi Bashir Ahmed, Bilal Siddiqi, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom, Noor Muhammad Fayaz, Abdul Ahad Parra, Firdous Ahmed Shah, Assadullah Parray, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Syed Shahid Yousuf, Muhammad Rafiq Ganai, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Umar Adil Dar, Fayaz Hussain Jaffary, Muhammad Yasin Butt, Saleem Nananji, Merajuddin Nanda, Showket Hakeem, Zahoor Ahmed Butt, human rights defender Khurram Parvez, Irfan Majeed, and over three dozen Kashmiri women continue to remain lodged in different jails of India and IIOJK.