Kashmiri representative, Shamim Shawl, has said that India is an irresponsible member of the United Nations Human Rights Council as it has ignored repeated UN requests to probe 364 cases of disappeared Kashmiris during the past 16 years.
Shawl said this in her statement at the 27th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. She told the president and members of the council that the UN Working Group on Disappeared Persons had sent 364 cases to the government of India during last 16 years and India had not investigated even a single case.
“We are dismayed to know that the government of India has not yet accepted the request of the working group for country visit. How can a member of Human Rights Council be so irresponsible?” she asked, in the harshest criticism India faces during the current session of the UNHRC.
Kashmiri activists continued their strong campaign against India’s illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir at the UN Human Rights Council, which is the highest international forum for human rights.
Another Kashmiri representative, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, presided over a seminar on the sidelines of the UNHRC session. The seminar ‘Education in Conflict Zone’ organized by international human rights defenders discussed access to education in Syria, Iraq, Hawaii, Alaska, and Jammu and Kashmir.
Youth Forum for Kashmir (YFK) Executive Director Ahmed Quraishi delivered a speech on his personal findings during visits to Syria, Iraq and the border regions of Afghanistan.
Turning to Kashmir, Ahmed Quraishi said that the treatment of Kashmiri students in Indian educational institutions was developing into a major international crisis and challenging the right of children to education in conflict zones.
India, he said, needs to be seen publicly condemning organized attacks on the Kashmiri students in the Indian universities. The government of India should also take credible and visible steps to prosecute those Indians involved in attacks on the Kashmiri students and the political parties that instigate them through hate speech.
‘India is an irresponsible member of UN Human Rights Council’. These words have a background when comes from a Kashmiri. Apart from Kashmir, there are extreme violations of basic human right for nationals Indians too. There are continued anti-nuclear protests against Indian speedy nuclear power buildups. People leave their homes and on roads from the last few years against nuclear power plants in their residential areas. Horrors of Fukushima are known to everyone. Indians want security against nuclear disaster against inadequate nuclear measures. Nuclear developments against peoples’ wills are one of the biggest violation of human rights which actually confiscated the rights of living.
The security forces in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir have been accused by human rights activists of using rape and molestation as a punitive and intimidating measure against civilians. This ruthless crime has been happening for over two decades by the Indian Army, and most of these cases go unreported, or even if they are reported, the government puts it under the carpet. Indian security forces have been implicated in many reports for enforced disappearances of thousands of Kashmiris where the security forces deny having their information and/or custody. This is often in association with torture or extrajudicial killing.
The world’s largest democracy is also dogged by separatist violence, life-threatening prison conditions, sex trafficking of children and an atmosphere of impunity resulting from the overburdened judicial system according to the “India 2013 Human Rights Report”. The Indian government did not implement the law effectively, and officials frequently engaged in corrupt practices with impunity.
This is situation in a country who speaks too much loud about democracy and people's right. India is an irresponsible state in every domain whether it is its social sector, human rights of its own nationals or Kashmiris. Kashmiri people are the clear cut and the true picture of India's fake policies regarding human rights. A state which cannot provide shelter to its people when they are sinking what else can be expected from a ruthless country and its ruthless leaders.
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