Joint Hurriyat starts petition on change.org, calls UN, rights bodies to ensure K-resolution

Srinagar, July 10: The Joint Hurriyat Leadership has petitioned Member States of United Nations, “International Organizations, Human Rights Defenders and Human Rights bodies and persons believing in Justice and equality all over the globe” to take notice of alarming situation in Kashmir
Hurriyat (M) chief Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has posted the link of the petition, uploaded on Change.org, on his Twitter account.
As Internet clampdown announced by Govt #KashmirAwarenessCampaign petition is uploaded now https://t.co/pCb5P9ttfB Sign &Spread the word!
— Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (@MirwaizKashmir) July 10, 2017
Online #KashmirAwarenessCampaign begins at https://t.co/mn1BE52CLh for the signature petition to be shared shortly in my next tweet.
— Mirwaiz Umar Farooq (@MirwaizKashmir) July 10, 2017
“We the People of Kashmir through this petition bring to your notice the grave situation of atrocities and abuse of Human Rights of the people of Jammu & Kashmir at the hands of Indian armed forces,” the leadership comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, wrote in the petition, named “The Attention of Justice Loving People Towards Human Rights Violations In Kashmir.”
“The people of Kashmir for the past seven decades have been struggling for the exercise of their right to self-determination accrued to them under United Nations Charter and the resolutions passed by UN Security Council on Kashmir Dispute and they have given huge sacrifices in terms of life, property and what not for the achievement of this right.”
They said that Kashmir is being ruled by military power, to deny them their legitimate right.
“…the aspirations of the people are being trampled under the jack-boots and their rights usurped by the state’s coercive machinery by using all possible means of suppression and coercion.”
“Over the last seventy years more than one lakh Kashmiris have been killed by the Indian forces, more than twenty thousand enforced disappearances have taken place, hundreds of fake encounters in which civilians have been murdered are recorded. Rape as a war weapon has been used and the dignity of the women of an entire village of Kunanposhpora compromised upon by the armed forces,” said the petition.
“Search and cordon operations are the order of the day here. Damaging and destroying property of civilians a deliberate plan of revenge upon them.”
The leadership appealed to “all Member states of United Nations, other International Organizations, Human Rights Defenders and Human Rights bodies and the persons believing in Justice and Equality all over the globe to come forward at this crucial juncture of our history and act in a meaningful way in order to save the people of Jammu & Kashmir from the extreme atrocities and gross human rights violations committed on us by the Indian state apparatus.”
“We also appeal them to play their role in ensuring a peaceful and just resolution of decades old Kashmir dispute. The non-resolution of the dispute has become the main reason of enormous suffering of the people of Kashmir and the flagrant violation of the basic human rights by the Government forces. This has also become the main impediment in realizing the full-potential of socio-economic progress of the entire South-Asian region. The non-resolution of this dispute has also raised tensions between Pakistan and India, and has now become a nuclear flash point after the nuclearization of South Asia.”