Feb 21, 2007
Public Hearing on Disappeared Kashmiris
Mothers, Wives and Sisters of Disappeared from Kashmir depose before the people
Venue: Jantar MAntar
Date: February 22, 2007
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Kashmir Solidarity appeals to join the public hearing and invites you to be part of campaign against state killings in Kashmir and the struggle for truth and justice.
In the last few weeks investigations have established that several innocent Kashmiris were kidnapped and murdered by sections of J & K police and Indian security forces. The disfigured dead bodies of the murdered persons were buried as “Pakistani militants killed in encounter”.
Since 1989, an estimated 150,000 Kashmiris have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir. An overwhelming majority of these people were killed by the Indian forces in Kashmir.
Since 1990 and the imposition of AFSPA, the Indian Armed Forces intensified the practice of killing of people immediately after their arrest. Under varios operations – “Operation Tiger”, “Operation Eagle” and “Operation Shiva”, the members of Army and paramilitary forces cordoned a village or a town and extra judiciously shot and killed or made ‘disappear’ unarmed civilians – in the name of crack-down opertions against the “terrorists”.
According to human rights activists and the Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons (APDP) about 5000 to 7000 persons remain missing in Kasmir today.
Thousands of habeas corpus petitions are pending before the J & K Court but the security forces have declined to respond to the Court’s summons, leaving Kashmiri citizens without protection of law and justice.
Press Conference at 4.00 pm
Ashok Aggarwal, Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Kamla Bhasin, Nirmala Deshpande, Shabnam Hashmi, Sonia Jabar, Tapan Bose, Uma Chakravarti & others for The Kashmir Solidarity Committee.
Write to The Kashmir Solidarity Committee at
Email: kashmirsolidarity@gmail.com
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