The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has expressed its grave concern over the surge in state terrorism by Indian troops in illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the APHC spokesman, in a statement in Srinagar, said the people of the territory are targeted and brutally harassed by the Modi regime on the demand for granting the right to self-determination to the Kashmiri people and holding an impartial plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir.
“We demand of the international human rights organisations to play their role for the release of Kashmiri prisoners languishing in Indian jails,” he said. The world community should come forward and declare all the illegal actions taken by the Indian Hindutva BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir on August 05, 2019, null and void, he added.
The APHC spokesman said the BJP-RSS Hindutva regime in IIOJK, which derives pleasure by inflicting pain and penalising Kashmiris, has intensified its state terrorism in the occupied territory where innocent people, especially the youth, are being killed by the trigger-happy forces’ personnel operating under the shield of a host of draconian laws that provide them impunity.
He urged the world community, particularly the human rights bodies, to help stop the continued bloodshed of Kashmiris in the occupied territory and hold India accountable for the war crimes being committed by its forces against the innocent Kashmiris. Indian troops continued their violent cordon and search operations (CASOs) in different districts of the Jammu region in India, illegally occupying Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the cordon and search operations, led by the Indian army and Central Reserve Police Force, continued on the ninth consecutive day today in Poonch and Rajouri districts. Indian troops barge into the houses and terrorise the inmates in the Surankote and Thanamundi areas of the districts. The cordon and search operations were also happening in different areas of the Samba and Kishtwar districts.
Meanwhile, restrictions on mobile internet services in Rajouri and Poonch remained. Facing the suspension of telecom services for over a week now, people are calling for immediate revocation of restrictions as they have been unable to avail themselves of many digital services, thus hampering their day-to-day activities.
The mobile internet services were suspended during the intervening night of December 22 and 23 to hide the Indian state terrorism and atrocities in the Poonch and Rajouri districts, especially after the custodial killing of three local civilians by the Indian army in the Surankote area.
Restrictions on mobile internet services have put people in a tight spot, especially in those areas where broadband or fibre-based internet services are unavailable. People from different regions of Rajouri have called for restoring mobile internet services.
