SRINAGAR: Chairman Hurriyet Conference (M), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday appealed international community and the human rights organizations to play their role in the recovery of thousands of Kashmiris subjected to custodial disappearance by Indian police and troops.
Mirwaiz addressing Friday congregation at Jamia Mosque Srinagar said that the indifference of the world organization towards human rights violations in Kashmir was encouraging the perpetrators of rights abuses.
He said that the unbridled powers given to the Indian troops and police personnel were the cause of trouble. He said that the number of custodial disappearance was highest in any part of the world and the relatives of more than nine thousand Kashmiris, subjected to custodial disappearance during the past twenty-four years and those buried in the unnamed mass graves had the right to seek whereabouts of their loved ones.
The Mirwaiz said that the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons held a peaceful demonstration in Srinagar every month to shake the conscience of the world but the silence of the world rights bodies was unfortunate.
Demanded setting-up of an independent commission, the APHC Chairman appealed to the International Court of Justice to play its role its role in the recovery of disappeared Kashmiris.
The Mirwaiz said that there were some conscious people in India who had raised their voice against the massacring of Kashmiris by Indian forces during the 2008 to 2010 mass uprisings but deplored members of the Kashmir Assembly, who claim to be the representatives of Kashmir people, had not raised their voice against these killings.
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