MIRPUR(AJK): President Jammu Kashmir Democratic Forum France (JKDF) Asif Jarral has urged the Human Rights Council in Geneva to take stringent notice of the recent killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar the Sikh leader in Canada for descent by the Indian intelligence agencies.
Jarral in his intervention before the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, drew the attention of the Council towards the imminent danger of settler colonialism and forced demographic change in Indian Occupied Jammu Kashmir, says a message reaching and released to the media here on Wednesday.
He said this was not a new norm, nor is it the first time that India is planning or has performed atrocities on the people of Kashmir.
“Genocide watch had already issued a genocide alert in 2019, noting that preparations for a genocide were underway”, the Kashmiri delegate underlined.
Asif added that while the world has proactively come together to prevent further violence in Ukraine, however, the people of Indian-occupied Kashmir continue to languish as the oldest and longest unresolved dispute on the UN agenda, despite 18 resolutions passed and the detailed reports published by the High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2018 and 2019.
He further said that before it’s too late, I urge this council to intervene and commit actively to safeguarding the people and the territory of Kashmir who for more than 75 years have faced, and continue to face war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and mass genocide.