By TwoCircles.net correspondent,
New Delhi : The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), an association of relatives of missing Kashmiris has appealed to the Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” to stop sending Gorkhas to serve in Indian Army in Kashmir.
Parchanda who is expected to become the president of Nepal was sent a letter by APDP that he should to take measures to stop India from sending Nepali nationals Gorkhas to serve in the Indian Army stationed in Kashmir. The letter sent to Parchanda said that the “use of Gorkhas like a mercenary force to crush a just and popular struggle of people in Kashmir is against the spirit of the verdict, which Nepali people gave by electing you as the leader.”
The APDP letter also reminded Parchanda of his own struggle with the state that saw thousands of people die drawing parallel with the Kashmiri struggle and reminding him about “the plight of subjugated and exploited people.”
APDP also accused the Indian government of using soldiers from different ethnic backgrounds as “tools of its oppressive policies like enforced disappearances.”
APDP champions the causes of relatives of Kashmiris who have been found missing after taken into custody by security agencies. It alleges that in the last 20 years, nearly 10,000 Kashmiris have disappeared after taken into custody by the Indian troops.
The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons(APDP) was formed in 1994 by lawyer Pervez Imroz.