DFP strongly condemns the brutal repression of political & human rights in Kashmir by Indian occupation authorities
SRINAGAR, March 28 (SABAH): Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) has strongly condemned the brutal repression of political and human rights in Kashmir by Indian occupation authorities.
Referring to use of brute force by the Indian Army on unarmed civilians in Kashmir including a fresh crack down on political and civil society activists, the DFP Spokesman Advocate Arshad Iqbal in a statement issued in Srinagar said the witch-hunting of political activists, lawyers, and human rights defenders speak volumes about India’s repressive policies towards Kashmir.
The DFP spokesman urged the international community to take notice of the arbitrary arrests, prolonged detentions of political activists and massive human rights violations being committed by the Indian military and paramilitary forces in the region saying that Indian authorities were hell bent on crushing every form dissent in the region.
He condemned Modi-led fascist Indian regime’s antagonistic approach towards Kashmir. Silencing every opposing voice in Kashmir, he said, has been the official policy Modi government has been pursuing religiously since it unlawfully stripped the region of its special status in 2019.
“Caging political activists and banning legitimate Kashmiri political voices under draconian laws to enable graveyard silence in the disputed region is meant to promote the socalled normalcy narrative to mislead the world on Kashmir”, the DFP spokesman said.
He said on the one hand, India has deployed over nine hundred thousand troops in IIOJK to control a small population, while on the other, it has suspended essential fundamental freedoms that have led to the ruthless suppression of expression of dissent in the territory.
He said thousands of political workers including top Hurriyat leaders have been left to rot in jails while a witch-hunt against civil society activists, rights defenders, and journalists continues unabated.