State terrorism, fake encounters, and mass arrests continue in IIOJK
MT Desk: Indian forces personnel, in their unabated acts of state terrorism, martyred four Kashmiris, including a woman, in the last month of November in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to data issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service today, of those martyred, two were killed in a fake encounter by Indian forces personnel in the territory.
On the other hand, two Kashmiris, Dr. Mohammad Nabi and Bilal Ahmad Sangoo, were killed in the Delhi blast incident on November 10, while nine Kashmiris were killed and 32 injured in a suspicious explosion inside Nowgam police station in Srinagar on November 14, which added more pain and sorrow to the territory.
During the period, personnel of the Indian army, police, paramilitary, Special Investigation Agency (SIA), and National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested and interrogated at least 2,819 individuals — mostly political activists, young boys, students, doctors, and women — during 471 cordon-and-search operations and house raids. Several of them, including doctors, were booked under black laws such as the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Public Safety Act (PSA).
Properties, including houses and agricultural lands, of 18 Kashmiris were attached by the New Delhi-controlled Bharatiya Janata Party regime, led by the highly communal non-Kashmiri Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
Meanwhile, over four thousand Kashmiris, including Hurriyat leaders and activists — APHC Chairman Masarrat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sufi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Ayaz Akbar, Pir Saifullah, Merajuddin Kalwal, Shahid-ul-Islam, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Syed Shahid Shah, Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Dr. Hameed Fayaz, Bilal Siddiqi, Molvi Bashir Irfani, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Noor Muhammad Fayaz, Showket Hakeem, Advocate Zahid Ali, Abdul Ahad Parra, Dr. Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Dr. Muhammad Shafi Shariati, Dr. Ghulam Muhammad Butt, Ghulam Qadir Butt, Rafiq Ahmad Ganai, Firdous Ahmed Shah, Saleem Nanaji, Muhammad Yasin Butt, Fayaz Hussain Jafari, Umar Adil Dar, Siraj Zargar, Dawood Zargar, human rights defender Khurrum Parvaiz, journalists Irfan Majeed — and others continue to face the worst political vendetta in terms of illegal imprisonment. They have been jailed in India and Kashmir on fabricated charges for years.
Political analysts, deploring the silence of the United Nations and other major powers on the flagrant human rights violations in IIOJK, have questioned whether the world is waiting for another Palestine-like crisis to emerge in South Asia.
They argued that the Indian BJP regime, along with the military and police establishment, is blatantly violating international law and committing gross human rights abuses in a region that remains an internationally recognized disputed territory. Numerous independent human rights organizations have documented the systematic repression and atrocities committed by Indian forces in IIOJK. Analysts argue that these continued abuses are part of the BJP regime’s broader strategy to crush the Kashmiri people’s resolve for freedom.
The analysts further pointed out that these human rights abuses in IIOJK are directly linked to the decades-old unresolved Kashmir dispute. India continues to ignore global calls for investigations into rights violations in the territory, despite widespread evidence of abuse.
Political analysts have urged the United Nations and other peace-loving countries to break their silence and address India’s illegal occupation and state-sponsored terrorism in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The international community, they stressed, must apply pressure on India to resolve the Kashmir dispute in accordance with UN resolutions and in alignment with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people, which will bring peace, economic stability, and political stability to the region.
