By Agence India Press,Bureau Report,
Srinagar: Today after the meeting with all-party delegation, chairman of Hurriyat (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani make an appeal to the conscience of people of India by his statement issued here which was mailed to Agence India Press.
In the statement, Geelani has made seventeen points makes 17-points appeal to Indian leadership.
Text of the Appeal
The recent statement of Home minister of India, that time has come to fulfill the promises made by Indian leadership to people of Jammu Kashmir is welcome ,in this regard we may like to remind the Indian leadership and the people of India that:
India annexed the territory of Jammu Kashmir by Landing its troops on the soil of Jammu Kashmir on 27th October, 1947 by force and deceit.
India raised the issue in United Nations Organisation (UNO) and the Security Council. The august bodies after thorough debates and discussions passed more than I8 resolutions on the issue.
That the United Nations Security Council through its Resolutions dated 21st April ,1948; 13th August ,1948 and 5th January, 1949 while declaring Jammu & Kashmir as disputed territory have called upon the parties to ascertain the will of the people of the state through a referendum whether to accede with India or Pakistan.
That Late Pandit Jawahir Lal Nehru ,Prime Minister of India, wrote to Prime Minister of Pakistan on November 21st , 1947, that,” Kashmiris should decide question of accession by plebiscite or referendum under the international auspices such as those of United Nations.”
Government of India through its letter dated December 31st ,1947,assured the United Nations Organisation That ,” The people of Kashmir would be free to decide their future by the recognised democratic method of plebiscite or referendum , which in order to ensure complete impartiality may be held under international auspices.”
The Indian representative in United Nations Late Gopala Sawamay Ayyanger reassured the Security Council on February 3rd ,1948,that ” As the Security Council ,is aware, the Government of India is fully committed to the view that, after peace is restored and all people belonging to the state have returned there ,a free plebiscite should be taken and the people should decide whether they wish to remain with India, go to Pakistan.
Again ,Late Pandit Jawahir Lal Nehru Prime Minister of India While giving a statement in Indian Parliament on February,12th ,1951 has said that,” We had given our pledge to the people of Kashmir and subsequently to United Nations , we stood by it and we stand by it today, let the people of Kashmir decide.”
The Indian commitments continued, Late Nehru again reassured the people of Kashmir and the world community on May 16th,1954, that” India will stand by her international commitments and will implement them at appropriate time.”
People of Jammu Kashmir are waiting for implementations of these resolutions and commitments but ironically India put hurdles in the implementation of these resolutions on the one or other pretext and back tracked from the promises and pledges it has given to the people of Jammu & Kashmir and International Community.
India through her armed forces, have committed serious war crimes against the people of Jammu & Kashmir. Their crimes against the people of Jammu Kashmir have now reached genocidal propositions presenting the worst example of State -Sponsored-Terrorism.
The population of the disputed state of Jammu Kashmir for the past 63 years and especially for the last two decades has been suffering hell under the Disturbed Area Act, Armed Forces Special Powers Act and Public Safety Act. There has never been a day when several deaths have not been reported. There has been no letup in the reign of terror let loose by the Indian forces against the people. These forces have killed more than one lakh young and old unarmed civilians of Jammu Kashmir in indiscriminate firing. These forces are responsible for disappearance of Twelve thousand people, extra –judicial execution of Ten thousand people, Rape and molestation of thousands of Women{ young and old } between the age group of 10 to 70 years, and Destruction of property Worth Billions of Rupees.
Indiscriminate killings, arbitrary and random arrests, much too frequent siege and search operations, selective raids on private residences, offices, educational Institutions, nightly swoops, brutal tortures, extra-judicial killings, frequent way side frisking, loot, plunder, arson, rape-all these and other inhuman atrocities continue to cause untold misery and extreme sufferings to the helpless and hapless people of Jammu Kashmir. Besides, all other basic and fundamental rights have either been curbed or are being denied by the occupation forces, we are not being allowed to perform religious activities like attending or delivering Friday or Eid sermons or to perform the fundamental religious obligation to perform Haj. Right to travel has been completely suspended. Today the whole of Jammu Kashmir is in deep pain and anguish and has lost its magic and mystique.
The Indian forces during the last three months have brutally killed more than one hundred innocent youth of Jammu Kashmir, while injuring more than three thousand of them, the only fault of them was that they were peacefully protesting to remind Government of India to fulfill their Promises and commitments made to people of Jammu Kashmir about holding a referendum to determine their future.
That India’s policy for Jammu & Kashmir has been ,to gain time, divide and rule, ignite secretarian clashes, encouragement of stooges and brutalization of people by suppression and oppression , but all these cheap tactics have proved failure, the Indian brutality has failed to break the will of the people ,Indi an forces can kill, torture or maim us, but they cannot kill the our dream of Aazadi.
We are not blood hounds; we sincerely believe that the resolution of the dispute of Jammu Kashmir lies in implementation of United Nations Resolutions dated 13th August 1948 and 5th January 1949.
We also believe in meaningful, sincere and time bound dialogue at tripartite Level and in this regard we demand That India should abdure its intransigence , accept Jammu Kashmir as international dispute, start the process of complete troops withdrawal ,revoke all draconian laws, release all political prisoners and young boys And formation of a Judicial Tribunal to probe past and present cases of killings.
We pray to Almighty Allah that good sense may prevail upon all of you so that you people realize the huge human as well as monetary losses incurred by India to keep Jammu Kashmir under its forcible occupation and immediately start resolution of the dispute in fulfillment of your commitments and according to the wishes and aspiration of the people of Jammu Kashmir.
For and on behalf people of Jammu & Kashmir,
Syed Ali Geelani
Chairman
APHC