Moon Desk: The Modi regime has taken a number of steps to disempower & disenfranchise Kashmiris after August 2019 when it repealed the special status of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and imposed military siege in the territory.
According to a report released by Kashmir Media Service, today, the main purpose of Modi’s 5th Aug 2019 illegal actions was to demote, disempower and disenfranchise Muslims in IIOJK.
It said the Modi regime is enforcing a process of political, constitutional, cultural and economic disempowerment in the occupied territory. Muslims, belonging to every class, sect or ethnicity in IIOJK, are targets of Hindutva policy, it added.
The report said the Modi regime is arbitrarily issuing orders one after the other to further its anti-Kashmiris’ agenda. it is the dream of RSS-BJP to make every Kashmiri Muslim homeless in their own land, it lamented.
It said India is illegally altering the demography of IIOJK in violation of United Nations resolutions and international laws as Modi is hell bent on eradicating Muslim character of the territory.
The report said the BJP-RSS want to revive Hindu civilization in Muslims majority Jammu and Kashmir but the people of Kashmir are determined to thwart Modi’s sinister designs and would continue their just struggle for right to self-determination.
Meanwhile, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has called upon the United Nations to impress upon India to grant Kashmiris their inalienable right to self-determination recognized in the relevant resolutions of the World Body.
According to Kashmir Media Service, APHC spokesperson Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement in Srinagar, condemning the ban on Hurriyat parties in occupied Jammu and Kashmir, termed it political terrorism by the BJP-led Indian government against freedom-loving organizations.
He also denounced the termination of a government teacher Manzoor Ahmed Laway of Kulgam, saying these terminations are being done by invoking the draconian laws against people of Kashmir. The authoritarian move was part of India’s settler colonialism policy to strangulate Kashmiris economically, he added.
The spokesperson said the vicious campaign, aimed at marginalizing the majority community in occupied Kashmir, has gained momentum since the BJP regime abrogated Article 370 and 35A on 5th August 2019 and since then scores of Kashmiris have been dismissed from their jobs while the apartheid regime has opened flood-gates of employment for non-state subjects.
He said the deliberate attempt to suspend Kashmiri government employees from their jobs is a dangerous game plan to minimize the role of Kashmiris in the civil administration. Terming it as a deep-rooted conspiracy against the Kashmiris, he said, “Settler-colonialism drive has been initiated under the garb of the newly introduced domicile law to replace the indigenous population with a new society of settlers.”
The people of occupied Kashmiri have been fighting for the right to self-determination for the past 76 years in the light of the United Nations resolutions and would continue their struggle till taking it to its logical conclusion at all costs.
