Occupied Kashmir War Crimes and Human Rights Violation

Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi with National Security Adviser Dr. Mueed Yusuf and Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari. Asim Iftikhar, spokesman for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry made a joint press conference in Islamabad and presented documents and figures to electronic and print media about Indian attitude while presenting these figures and documents, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi at a press conference, said that it was important to inform the international community to take steps to end the “gross violations of human rights” in Indian-administered Kashmir. he further stated that the documents are a step to show the true picture of India and its brutality in Indian Occupied Kashmir. He also alleged that India is running five such training camps in Gulmarg, Raipur, Jodhpur, Anupgarh and Bikaner. “By sending state-trained ISIS fighters, India may try to link the Kashmiri independence movement to international terrorism in order to discredit the freedom struggle. Then India may declare terrorist action to the struggle of Kashmiri freedom fighters and can get support of the international community to counter them.
Since 1947, Article 370 has given Jammu and Kashmir a semi-autonomous constitutional status. Under its provisions, the region has freedom in all matters except its legislature, constitution, flag and communications, foreign affairs and defense. Ending this status is a fresh attempt to eradicate the Kashmiri people, their rights and the linguistic, social, cultural, economic and political existence of the local people. The legality of the special status solution is being challenged by legal and constitutional experts in India, which has opposed the country’s Supreme Court decisions in recent years. With the recent changes in Article 370 and Article 35A, India allows permanent resettlement of non-Kashmiris in Kashmir. The Constitution of Kashmir first defines membership and settlement. Non-Kashmiris are now allowed to buy, keep and settle in Kashmir permanently.
Under these changes, for example, Gujar Bakarwal in Kashmir is immediately at greater risk. They migrate seasonally with the animals to look after the animals and the land. Indian laws regarding land as a sole property will not allow them to live on land as they have historically done.
These changes will also lead to population restructuring in Kashmir. Kashmiris have long speculated that India intends to settle military and paramilitary families in Kashmir. As a Kashmiri, I have personally seen semi-permanent military colonies in Kashmir. Indigenous peoples from Asia, such as Kashmiris, have long faced threats to their existence and inherited rights, especially “relative” land rights, as colonial relations between indigenous peoples and settler states make land encroachment profitable. Are and consider indigenous lives as strangers.
Since August 4, When India canceled all access and communication with Kashmir. The Internet, cell phones and landlines have been cut off, and 14.7 million people cannot access essentials such as food and medical aid as India moves to gain full control of its territory using military force. Apart from the extremely rare media, Kashmiris have not been able to communicate with each other or with the outside world. The entire area of Jammu and Kashmir is basically under siege.
The media, academics, legal and political analysts have never touched on indigenous rights, as stated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, when Kashmir is being debated. But an indigenous rights framework is needed to carefully assess the various rights violations facing Kashmiris. India is violating several international human rights conventions and declarations it has signed which apply to Kashmir.
Under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, India has a duty to consult with local people, rather than making decisions that affect them unilaterally, and give them the highest priority for self-government and self-determination. Provide opportunity. In 1948, UN resolution on Kashmir was ratified the right of Kashmiris to determine their own future.
There were reluctant to use the term genocide to describe the events that took place in Kashmir over the decades. But the legal definition of genocide is enough. The Kashmiri people have been subjected to population migration on their lands by foreign groups through the establishment of collective permanent settlements by foreigners. The external group is the Hindu nationalist Indian state, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As a group, Kashmiris are additionally targeted because they are primarily Muslim and culturally and linguistically distinct. In India, including Kashmir, Muslims are seen as a threat. They have been partially eliminated through military force and economic coercion. Kashmiri youth have been convicted and held in state custody for stone-throwing “reform” programs to protest their grievances and the Indian Army’s pardon. This treatment is in violation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Demands for genocide have already been made in Nazi Germany, Rwanda, and elsewhere. The UN Convention on Genocide says it should never be allowed again. The convention also states that endangered groups must be protected.
Instead, there has been a terrible silence by world leaders in the name of ongoing crimes in Kashmir. Kashmiris have been the guardians, gardeners, and custodians of Kashmiris’ land, water, each other, and inhuman life. Regardless of the colonial boundaries, the most important thing is what Kashmiris want as an independent indigenous people.
Dr. Muhammad Akram Zaheer
PhD Political Science
akramzaheer86@yahoo.com