By TCN News,
Hyderabad: Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee has expressed its deep concerns over the violation of human rights in the Kashmir valley. In a letter sent to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, it has demanded from the government of India, to withdraw the armed forces from the valley and restore the life and liberty of Kashmiri people.
Condemning the recent violence in the state, it has termed the use of army against the civilians, who are protesting in democratic manner, “a violation of national and international human rights guidelines.”
Pointing towards the large scale human rights violation in the state, the Committee in its statement said, “Once Kashmir was called as Paradise on the Earth, but now its condition is so worse that it has become a grave yard of lakhs of people. Within twenty years of period one lakh of people have been murdered…”
It has called upon the civil society to pressurize the Indian government, to respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), withdraw the armed forces and restore the confidence of the people of the Kashmir valley.
It has also said that, the lasting peace in Jammu and Kashmir will come, only when the government of India scraps the draconian laws, releases the Kashmiri people from the jails, start the peace talks with the Kashmiri leaders and resolve the Kashmir problem according to the will and wish of the people of Kashmir.