Kashmir Council-European Union Chief Seeks International Community For Human Rights Abuses In IOK

Chairman of Kashmir Council-European Union (KCEU) Ali Raza Syed Monday called upon the international community, especially the European Commission to immediately intervene to prevent increased human rights violations by Indian occupational forces in Indian held Kashmir

MIRPUR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th Mar, 2018 ) :Chairman of Kashmir Council-European Union (KCEU) Ali Raza Syed Monday called upon the international community, especially the European Commission to immediately intervene to prevent increased human rights violations by Indian occupational forces in Indian held Kashmir.

Syed expressed these views during his visit to local offices complex of AJK government-run Kashmir Liberation Cell here on Monday. He was received by Director General (DG) Kashmir Liberation Cell (KLC) Fida Hussain Kiyani, local head of KLC Syed Zameer Hussain Naqvi, ADC (G) Mirpur Raja Farooq Akram and other senior officials of the KLC upon his arrival to the offices complex.

DG KLC Fida Kiyani briefed the Kashmir Council-EU chief of the functioning of the Cell, located at the base camp of the Kashmir freedom struggle � Azad Jammu Kashmir, to apprise the external world of the updated current pathetic situation of the bleeding valley of Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir, where the local population have launched the struggle for liberation of the motherland from long Indian subjugation and for the achievement of much-awaited birth right of self determination.

Ali Raza Syed expressed his deep concern over the increased human rights violations in occupied Kashmir through the use of pellet guns by the Indian occupying military and Para-military troops against unarmed innocent civilians and innocent bystanders, many of them children.

He pointed out that the number of serious head and eye injuries was enough to support a prima facie case that excessive force was being used by the Indian occupational troops. Syed emphasized that it was unacceptable for the people of Jammu & Kashmir.

He called upon the International Community to get actively involved in the peace negotiations as being the only way in which the present impasse can be resolved and urged the European Union to set an example by using its influence with both parties to negotiate and launch a peace process.

The Chairman Kashmir Council EU said that his office have wrote a letter to the international community as a part of Kashmir Council EU's diplomatic campaign in order to stop India from use of excessive force specially usage of pellet gun against civilians in Indian occupied Kashmir (IOK).

He also called upon EU to break its silence over Kashmir's situation and prevent use of excessive force against peaceful Kashmiri civilians in IOK. He added that early peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue in line with the aspirations of the people of Jammu & Kashmir is key to the emergence of durable and everlasting peace the world over in general and South East Asia in particularly.