Int'l Kashmir Solidarity Conference Held In Canada

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Jul, 2017 ) : International Kashmir Solidarity Conference was held in Toronto on the ongoing grave human rights violations in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) particularly, since the latest round of killings and brutalities that began on July 8, 2016 in the aftermath of the extra-judicial execution of a young Kashmiri freedom fighter, Burhan Wani.

The Conference while condemning use of pellet guns by the Indian occupation forces to willfully blind a whole generation of Kashmiris, mostly youth, in thousands, underscores that the UN has a responsibility towards stopping the Kashmiris' systematic genocide by Indian occupation forces, according to a press release.

The participants of this Solidarity Conference on Kashmir, therefore call on India to cease forthwith all human rights violations and stop the bloodshed of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. They called on the government of India to allow UN Independent investigations into the human rights situation, to establish responsibility and determine appropriate punishment for the perpetrators of such crimes that are against International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law.

They called on India to withdraw all its troops including Armed Constabulary from Jammu and Kashmir, particularly from cities, towns and villages to enable resumption of normal life and create enabling environment for the plebiscite to be held under the auspices of the UN as enshrined in the UNSC Resolutions on Kashmir.

They called on the OIC Secretary General to compile a report on human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir and urge constant monitoring of the human rights situation by the IPHRC. They urged UN and other relevant international forums to investigate all massacres, fake-encounters, forced disappearances, wilful blinding using pellet guns, committed by the Indian forces and Hindu terrorist organizations RSS, and bring the perpetrators to justice.