— Indian police arrests seven Dukhtaran-e-Millat activists
— JKCCS report suggests children are exposed to extreme violence in IOK
SRINAGAR: The strike over the brutalities of Indian forces continued on the eighth consecutive day in Shopian and Pulwama areas of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK).
According to the Kashmir Media Service (KMS), shops and business establishments were closed along with educational institutes, while scarce traffic graced the roads as the town of Shopian mourned the death of Mussavir Hasaan Wani who was among the 17 youth killed by the Indian troops during a cordon and search operation in Kangan area of Pulwama on Friday evening.
Meanwhile, activists of Dukhtaran-e-Millat were arrested from the Pinglan area of Pulwama district by the Indian police, KMS reported.
A Dukhtaran-e-Millat spokesperson said that seven party activists who were on their way to Mussavvir Wani’s house to express their condolences were intercepted and arrested by the police.
“Seven of our activists have been detained by the Special Task Force of the police,” the spokesperson added.
Pulwama SP confirmed in a media interview that they had arrested some women and were questioning them.
KC-EU TERMS IOK AS WORLD’S MOST MILITARISED ZONE:
Kashmir Council-European Union (KCEU) Chairman Ali Raza Syed on Sunday said that Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) was the most militarised zone of the world, with a large deployment of the Indian security forces.
Talking to reporters, he said that in the last 15 years, 318 children (in the age group of 1 and 17) had been killed and so far no one among the perpetrators of the heinous crimes had been brought to justice.
Referring to a recent survey report of Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) headed by the eminent human right lawyer Parvez Imroz on the terrible situation in IOK, Ali Raza Syed claimed that people of IOK were living in an extreme fear and terror.
Quoting the report he said that children in IOK were living in the most militarised atmosphere, with the presence of 7,00,000 troops, which exposed them to the risk of all grave violations against children as laid out in United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
It is important to mention here that JKCCS released the report on the impact of violence on the children of IOK titled “Terrorised: Impact of Violence on the Children of Jammu and Kashmir (2018)” on March 30. The report was an assessment of the violence against children in IOK in the last fifteen years and it gave data on killings, arrests, mass violence and sexual violence perpetrated against children.