SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front on Monday said it will organize a 30-hours-long hunger strike on international human rights day as part of its continuous and protest for awakening the sleeping conscience of international community.
Accusing India and its stooges of trampling the basic human rights of Kashmiris under the garb of democracy, JKLF said its hunger strike will start on Wednesday December 9in the morning and will continue till the evening of December 10, 2015.
This was stated by chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik after a meeting of JKLF in this regard.
In a statement, JKLF chairman said that international community celebrates 10th December as international human rights day every year. This day is celebrated to ensure protection of the human rights of every individual living in this world.
For a long time the basic human rights of Kashmris are being trampled by India and its stooges. More than hundred-thousand of ours have been martyred by tyrant forces, thousands of our honorable mothers and sisters have been dishonored, thousands are missing in custody and thousands are sleeping in unmarked graves. Thousands have been disabled by torture, pepper gas shells and pellet gun firings and the careers of thousands are being destroyed in police stations and jails, Malik said.
He said this oppression continues and if we only analyze the ongoing year, we find innocents like Suhail Ahmad Sofi of Narbal, Gowhar Nazir Dar of HMT to Khalid Ahmad Wani of Tral brutally killed by the trigger-happy Indian forces.
Similarly we find innocent Kashmiris like Zahid Rasool of Batengoo burnt to death by fascists backed by the present rulers.
Malik said during the present year, thousands of innocent young boys, children and students have been arrested, tortured and humiliated by police and central forces and till date hundreds of young boys are languishing in police custody or have been sent to jail after slapping PSA on them.
Even the kith and kin of these young boys are not spared and are also humiliated and tortured by police. Along with this, a complete blanket ban has been imposed on all peaceful political activities, processions and rallies and practically Kashmir has been turned into a concentration camp, Malik alleged.
He said now even our religious belief and freedom is also being snatched, and especially in Jammu RSS backed forces with the active support of present rulers have turned the lives of Jammu Muslims hell.
He said that fighting for ones rights is a sign of life and living nations, and Kashmiris too being a living nation, cannot remain silent on these atrocities.
Asserting that whatever is happening in Jammu and Kashmir is not unknown, Malik regretted that international community knows and understands everything but is keeping criminally silent only because of its trade and economic ties with India.
He said that international charter of human rights has been formulated by international community itself. International human rights day is also their creation but today people who made and have signed these covenants are adopting double-standards and maintaining criminal silence when it comes to the abuse of human rights of tiny nations like Kashmir.
He said challenging this hypocrisy and double-standard of international community and awakening its sleeping conscience is necessary and Kashmiris will keep fulfilling their obligations regarding this.
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