By Raqib Hameed Naik, Twocircles.net
Srinagar: A Hyderabad based human rights group, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee condemn (CLMC) while condemning the recent killings of unarmed civilians in Kashmir alleged
Indian army of being involved in molestation and rape of Kashmiri girls and women and termed it as a crime against humanity.
“Army is using this inhuman act as a weapon against the Kashmiri people to take revenge or to suppress the voice of the people and to demoralize them,” said CLMC.
“Here in this case the molestation of 16 year old teenage
girl at Handwara should also be seen from the point of view that the Indian Army use rape and abduction as a weapon and Indian state and Kashmiri administration kill the innocent people to hide this atrocious act of the Army and police,” they added.
While expressing its displeasure over alleged illegal detention of the minor girl, CLMC said “they kept the girl and the family under the illegal detention for days together and the Kashmiri government also does not take any remedial steps in this matter.”
Terming molestation case and subsequent police firing on Kashmiri youth as crime against humanity, they said, “It should be noted that since 1992 around one lakh people are killed by the Indian Army and the security forces; and molestation, rape, kidnapping, mass murders etc. became the tools in the hands of the Armed and security forces to suppress the popular demand of Kashmiri people for self determination.”
CLMC termed the matter as of grave concern for the whole civil
society of this world that Kashmiri people cannot enjoy right to life with human dignity.
“They do not have the right to expression or the right
to self determination. We strongly believe that in Kashmir human rights violation is on its peak level. There is grave infringement of the charter of Universal Declaration of Human Rights at every step in Kashmir by the Armed and security forces.”
While appealing to the people to speak for the Kashmiri people’s human rights and civil liberties, the right group demanded union government to repeal Armed Force Special Power Act (AFSPA) immediately and withdraw the Armed forces from Jammu & Kashmir.
“We also demand to respect the sentiments of Kashmiri people,” CLMC added.