By TCN News,
Washington DC: Taking note of the excessive use of force by the Indian army against the civilian protesters in the Kashmir valley, the Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIM) has sent an appeal to the President of India.
AIM that represents a large number of Indian Muslims living in North America sent an appeal on Friday to Pranab Mukherjee demanding to contain army in Kashmir.
In the last five weeks 65 civilians have been killed in Kashmir due to the ongoing turmoil. The army is consistently using pellet bullets and has so far fired about 1.3 million pellet bullets or 1 pellet for every 10 people of Kashmir. The army has also been raiding the houses of civilans at night in the villages, dragging them out and beating them viscously. Many have died or become disabled from that excessive violence. Many have died in the custody of the army and police.
Kaleem Kawaja, the Executive Director of the Association said that the Association opposes the demands for freedom from India of those Kashmiris who are holding protests or throwing stones as it considers the state of Jammu & Kashmir a part of India. However the Association condemns excessive use of lethal force against the civilian Kashmiris that has resulted in such grievous loss of life and injuries.
The Association appealed to the President and Prime Minister of India to restrain the army units in Kashmir from using excessive force to control the protest rallies and to restore peace in the Kashmir valley as soon as possible.