Bar Association Condemns Civilian Killings In Kashmir

The J&K High Court Bar Association Srinagar Tuesday condemns the use of ‘brute force by Army CRFP and J&K police’ in killing more than 33 unarmed civilians and injuring about 1500 of them in different parts of Kashmir valley during the past few days umbrage in the valley.
While terming the killings of innocent civilians a systematic genocide of Kashmiri Muslims, the Bar Association in a statement issued to KNS requested the United Nations and the members of International Community to come forward and play their role of liberating the Kashmiri Muslims from Indian Odious Scourge by getting those, who are responsible for such genocide, tried through international penal tribunals in accordance with international laws including the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide and freeing Kashmir’s from forcible occupation of India by all means possible.
The Bar Association wants to remind the UN and International community that in terms of various UN declarations more particularly the Vienna Declaration and programme of Action, the promotion and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms is the priority objective of united nations and a legitimate concern of international community as they are signatories to the same, and as all the human right are universal, indivisible, inter dependent and interrelated therefore they are meant to be obeyed by one and all.
The bar association also wants to make it clear to the people of the world that human rights and fundamentals freedoms are the birth right of all human beings and taking into account the trampling of these rights of Kashmir’s people by Indian armed forces for the last about 70 years, they have a right to take any action for realizing their cherished and inalienable right of self determination and it is the moral duty of internal community to support them in achieving the said objective.
While expressing its solidarity with those who have been martyred and injured and hundreds of whom are also in the danger of losing their eye sights , the Bar association assures them of all possible help and of standing by them at this hour of grief.
IN this behalf, a team of bar association has today visited SMHS hospital and has collected the details of all those people who have suffered pellet injuries and have been given first aid by the hospital authorities and have been discharged under police pressure from the hospitals without providing them necessary medical aid and assistance.
The Bar association has decided to take the matter to the High Court for ensuring all possible medical treatment both inside and outside the state these about 200 pellet injury victims.
The Bar Association also pays its rich tributes to the martyrs’ of 1931 who sacrificed their lives for the honor dignity and freedom of the people of Kashmir and prays to Almighty Allah to help the people of Kashmir in achieving their aim and objectives of getting freedom from Indian subjugation and tyranny. (KNS)