Martyrs’ sacrifices will not go waste: APHC-AJK

 The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter, paying rich tributes to the martyrs of the Gaw Kadal tragedy said their sacrifice will not go in vain.

APHC-AJK chapter Convener Mahmood Ahmed Saghar, General Secretary Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Information Secretary Imtiaz Wani, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, Syed Ejaz Rehmani, Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoob and Shamim Shawl in their separate statements issued in Islamabad said that the unprecedented sacrifices of the Kashmiri people would surely bring positive results.

They said that the Indian soldiers had martyred over fifty innocent Kashmiris and injured hundreds others by firing indiscriminately on the peaceful protesters in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, on January 21 in 1990. They were protesting against the molestation of several women by the Indian troops in the area.

The Hurriyat leaders said that India had occupied Jammu and Kashmir by force and had given a licence to its forces to kill the Kashmiri people. They deplored that Gaw Kadal, Aali Kadal, Bijbehara, Sopore and Handwara tragedies and many other massacres perpetrated by Indian troops in the occupied territory are stains on the face of India, which projects itself as the largest democracy of the world.

They said that it was the indifferent attitude of the international community that till now India had not been questioned about the tragedies and it was committing the worst kind of human rights violations in the occupied territory.

The APHC-AJK leaders appealed to the United Nations and world human rights organizations to conduct an impartial investigation into the massacres committed by Indian troops in IIOJK and take strict action against the perpetrators.