A group of British MPs presents his report on the "tragedy of human rights" in Kashmir

Srinagar: In a report presented to the UK Parliament, the multiparty parliamentary group on Kashmir (APPKG) condemned the Indian government for "using excessive force against the Kashmiris and refusing to allow independent observers to". to enter Jammu and Kashmir to monitor the true extent of the "human rights tragedy" in that country.
Labor MP Chris Leslie, chairman of the Kashmir parliamentary group, made up of representatives of all parties, presented the report Tuesday night to the British Parliament. He was accompanied by dozens of Labor and Conservative MPs, as well as Sardar Masood Khan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, reported The News International. The Kashmir APPG brings together more than 70 parliamentarians from the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
The report was published, marking the second major international advance on Kashmir after the publication by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of a report on Kashmir. highlighting human rights violations in June 2018.
The report of the British parliamentary group noted at the beginning that "despite repeated requests, no representative of the central government of India or the government of the State of J & K has agreed to testify verbally written. "
The report proposes a number of recommendations aimed at alleviating the suffering of the Kashmiris. It recommended that the Government of India repeal the Special Powers of the Armed Forces Act and institute proceedings against the armed forces and security personnel in the civil justice system; that the Government of Jammu and Kashmir must urgently repeal or amend the Public Security Act (PSA); that the Indian Government should open a thorough public inquiry into the identity of bodies in common and unmarked burials; that the Indian government should immediately ban the use of shotguns; that the Government of Jammu and Kashmir must open its prisons to international control; and that the Indian and Pakistani governments should resume the use of regular visas on visas and reunite separated families.
The APPKG report relies on reports from Amnesty International, Chatham House and Crisis on Indian Kashmir. Monitoring group. Indian-held Kashmir is still heavily militarized and the draconian laws that legally cover human rights violations committed by security officials remain in effect, giving the military the general power to raid houses, arrest people without a warrant and indefinitely detain suspects.
APPKG's report refers to a Human Rights Watch commentary on living conditions in Kashmir in March 2018, which pointed out that Indian forces used brutal force against protesters. in Kashmir occupied by the Indians. The report stated: "The use of shots by armed members of J & K's security personnel has rightly condemned the use of rubber and steel shotguns as the primary means of dispersing the crowd, particularly to disperse non-violent demonstrations. Heart-rending images of Kashmiri civilians disfigured by bullet wounds – and in several dozens of permanently blinded cases – have been used to illustrate the contempt for human life that too often characterizes the police tactics of J & K. Such pellet weapons are not only likely to disfigure their victims; it is also mbadively inaccurate.
The report states that during the visit of the committee members to Azad Kashmir and the control line, its members heard a series of witnesses, including Raja Najabat Hussain, president of the Jammu Solidarity Movement. Cashmere.
The report indicates that the delegation met dozens of Kashmiris who fled the Indian occupation to get to Azad Kashmir; women who have lost loved ones; victims through the CoC who explained to the delegation how much Indians were targeting them on a daily basis; and victims who have told how their homes are militarized in Indian-occupied Kashmir.
The APPKG delegation went to the Thotha refugee camp near Muzaffarabad and was directly informed by people whose families were separated, sometimes for several decades, between the Indians and Azad Kashmir. "We have heard from families, mostly women and children, currently housed in supportive housing provided by the AJK government, who have fled or been displaced from areas administered by India," says The report.
The delegation of APPKG was allowed to enter the village. crossing point at Chakothi on the line of control on the side of Azad Kashmir. "The delegation heard from four villagers living near the border, including the son of a man killed in August 2018 by a mortar strike that would have been randomly visited on their property. Many witnesses have testified to the arbitrariness of such attacks, so their main effect – and by their very design – is to maintain a climate of fear. The delegation also heard a farmer, victim of a sniper attack, being shot in the cheek and arm while he was busy with his land the previous month. These first-hand accounts were convincing and credible. They seem to have confirmed the existence of recent and persistent Indian incidents affecting civilians throughout the LDC, "the report says.
– (Courtesy of The News)

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