In
occupied Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) Chairman, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq has urged India to repeal the black law, Armed Forces Special
Powers Act (AFSPA), from occupied Kashmir and stop suppressing the Kashmiris’
resolve for freedom through use of brute force.
Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq addressing a public gathering at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar said that
the world community and the international human rights organizations had
described AFSPA as a draconian law.
He
added that the Amnesty International had time and again stressed the need of
its repeal but the Indian authorities were using the law against the peaceful
protesters.
The
APHC Chairman said that today the entire world was observing the “International
Week of the Disappeared” but in occupied Kashmir more than 10,000 people had
been disappeared for last 25 years.
He said that these people had been arrested from
their houses and roads but their relatives were unaware of their whereabouts. Meanwhile,
the APHC spokesman in a statement in Srinagar, paying rich tributes to Aasiya
and Neelofar of Shopian on their sixth martyrdom anniversary, demanded strict
punishment for the men in uniform involved in the rape and murder of the two
women.
