Kashmiri cop resigns over ‘call of conscience’

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A police constable in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir has announced his resignation in protest against the brutalities being committed by the Indian army in the valley.

In a video message circulating on social media, police constable Raees said that he cannot continue with his job due to the state-sponsored violence as half of the Kashmiris have been jailed and the other half have turned blind due to the use of pellet guns.

“I am working as a police constable from last seven years. When I joined police I promised myself to serve the civilians. However, the law and order situation in Kashmir has turned worst for an unending period because the people in the area are demanding their due rights,” he says in his over six-minute video., Raees said that the root cause of unrest in Kashmir is that the plebiscite promised to the Kashmiris never

Raees said that the root cause of unrest in Kashmir is the non-implementation of the plebiscite that had been promised to the Kashmiris.

A UNCIP (United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan) resolution passed on January 5, 1949, had called for holding a free and impartial plebiscite to decide the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to India or Pakistan.

“My conscience asked me every time that as a policeman is it right for me to see pool of blood of fellow Kashmiris. The solution I have come up with is that I will leave the job so that my conscience does not question me as I can tolerate anything but I can’t silence my conscience.”

The latest wave of unrest started in the occupied valley with the killing of Burhan Wani, a commander of the Kashmir-based militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen, by Indian security forces on July 8, 2016.

After his killing, anti-Indian protests started in all 10 districts of the Kashmir valley. Protesters defied curfew with attacks on security forces and public properties.

Jammu and Kashmir Police and Indian paramilitary forces used pellet guns, tear gas shells, rubber bullets, resulting in the deaths of hundereds of civilians, with over 15,000 civilians injured and many left blind due to use of pellet guns.