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Kashmir European Alliance denounces illegal detention of Kashmiri Hurriyet leaders and continued killings of youth by Indian military

Oslo,(KEA) March 28 2010: Kashmir European Alliance has denounced the continued illegal detention of Hurriyet leaders and activists languishing in different jails and expressed deep concern on continued killings of innocent civilians in Indian occupied Kashmir.

The president of Kashmir European Alliance Engineer Pervez Mehmood has in a statement issued in Oslo said that the occupation authorities were using brute force against the innocent people of the occupied territory especially youth to suppress the liberation movement.

It’s been reported through press from Srinagar that the illegally detained Hurriyet leader, Masarrat Alam Butt was not being presented before the court. Kashmir European Alliance condemns the illegal detention of the party leader, Muhammad Yusaof Mir. Muhammad Yusaof Mir was not being released despite the clear-cut orders of the High Court of occupied Kashmir. Engineer Pervez Mehmood also condemned the continued act of state terrorism by Indian military by martyring another Kashmiri youth in Kupwara district.

The press further reported that troops martyred the youth during continued military operations near Budinamba in the district. Various areas of the district are under military siege for the last six days. Dead body of a civilian, Shabbir Ahmad was found at Main Gate of Ziyarat Batamaloo in Srinagar.

Three civilians including a 25-year-old Tanvir Ahmad Itoo were injured in two separate explosions at Khaniyar in Srinagar and near main chowk in Sopore.

Engineer Pervez Mehmood calls for impartial investigation from United Nations Security Council to unleash horrendous violations of human rights by Indian military and paramilitary troops. Indian military is involved for mass disappearances of Kashmiri civilians. Since beginning of Kashmir freedom struggle thousands of people have vanished, presumed dead or imprisoned without any trial or record. People have been taken into custody by law enforcing agencies and then their custody is openly denied. There have been many such cases in the valley since 1989. Majority of these have been people from underdog community.

The relatives of these people have filed petitions but neither the whereabouts have been ascertained nor any perpetrator has been brought to justice. They are assured that detainees will be released soon, and then they were told that arrests never actually took place. When after petitions, FIR's, spending money, travelling to interrogation centres, nothing happens and all channels turns dejected desperate then relatives take legal recourse.

Numerous half widows have been deserted by in laws along with the children. The agony & trauma is evident from the families those have lost father, son, husband or brother.
Kashmir European Alliance appeals to all international human rights organisations to take cognisance of massive human rights violations by Indian troops and put pressure on India to stop state terrorism in the occupied territory.