ABDULLAH MUSTAFVI
Latest report released by UN about serious human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir is neither a new revelation nor a biased document rather it exposes the brutal face of India afresh. Besides this eye opening report, encompassing inhuman atrocities committed by Indian security forces , further confirmed the complains made by oppressed Kashmir masses to the largely deaf and dumb international community.
On 6th July 2019, New York Times has also published a detailed story authored by Sameer Yasir and Kai Schultz titled ” Kashmiris Call for Investigation of Torture Accusations Against India”. While referring UN latest report about inhuman violence NYT story made shocking disclosures about torture cells after interviewing dozens of victims. Kashmiri human rights activists and political workers have formed various forums to compile the facts about torture and HR violation victims. New York Times story provides a summarized but conclusive account of Indian brutalities .
A similar story authored by Riffat Farid titled ” UN Reoprt on Kashmir Calls for Probe into Human Rights Violations” was published by Aljazeera on 8th July 2019. International media echoes with the call of Kashmiris for a detailed probe on decades long human rights violations committed by Indian state institutions. Nature of Indian crimes against Kashmiris is extra ordinarily heinous and inhuman. It will be fair to say that India , after release of UN report about Kashmir , now stands in the world community as the biggest human rights violator and abuser state. A legitimate demand of Kashmiri masses for free and fair plebiscite persistently receives violent response from New Dehli.
There are stories of extra judicial murders, illegal detentions in torture cells, lifelong disabilities caused by lethal weapons like pellet guns, gang rapes and unimaginable humiliations spread all over the Kashmir. Kashmiris have no place for India in their hearts and minds.
New generation has inherited spirit of freedom from elders and got fuel for the fire of armed resistance by observing inhuman treatment and violence of Indian security forces. New York Times story describes shocking accounts of torture victims who earned lifelong disabilities as a reward of being innocent. How effectively Indian policy of violence and torture can convert a simple villager against the state may be rightly assessed from the cases reported in New York Times story.
One of torture victim Nazir Ahmed Shaikh was arrested by Indian security forces without fulfilling any legal formality and during process of so called interrogation his two legs were removed from body by crushing under a road roller. How it can be justified? How the civilized world can forgo such brutalities? Neither it is an exceptional incidence nor an exaggerated twisted narration of the actual incidence. Every street in Kashmir has numerous such like revelations and disclosures.
These blood soaked stories took place on ground and gave birth to a new generation of freedom fighters in Kashmir. Burhan Wani can be termed as a symbolic icon of this new breed of freedom fighters . Freedom fighters are not ready to kneel before Indian state which has nothing to offer them except torture, rapes, genocide and humiliation .
Kashmir is no more a territorial dispute or a political issue between India and Pakistan; rather it is a human tragedy turning worst with every passing day due to inhuman prejudiced approach of New Dehli. Old puppets of India like Farooq Abdullah have also started criticizing India’s venomous policies .
His latest demand for a dialogue comes up with a reasonable logic that if dialogues may take place for Afghanistan amid extra ordinary violence than why the dialogues can not be arranged to resolve the Kashmir issue? On account of dialogues , Pakistan has played a better role by making frequent offers to India! Nothing could succeed so far primarily due to the incurable stiffness on part of India. After a prolonged silence at international forums about Kashmir, this fresh realization of miseries of Kashmiris has shown a ray of hope to all such quarters who desperately look forward to resolve this sensitive issue through peaceful means.
Exposure of Indian brutalities at International circles must be optimally utilized by Pak foreign office to build the pressure of international community on New Dehli . This pressure may prove effective , in first place, to immediately stop recurrence of state sponsored terrorism, HR violations and multiple abuses against Kashmiris. A time has reached that India should read the writing on the wall . Seeds of violence and abuse can never grow the flowers of peace.
