The All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, while paying rich tributes to the martyrs of the Kupwara massacre on their martyrdom anniversary, has said that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute and that no amount of Indian state terrorism or colonial measures can alter the disputed status of the territory.

According to Kashmir Media Service, Indian troops mercilessly killed twenty-seven innocent Kashmiris on January 27, 1994, to punish them for observing a shutdown against Indiaís Republic Day a day earlier. APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement issued in Srinagar, said that Kashmiris will never forget the supreme sacrifices of their martyrs made for achieving political justice through a plebiscite under United Nations resolutions.

He appealed to international human rights organizations to fulfill their moral and legal responsibilities. The APHC said that IIOJKís history is littered with massacres like Kupwara and would not be allowed to suppress the peaceful struggle for right to self-determination. The statement said that Kashmir remains under Indian military siege and that the continued state terrorism and injustice being perpetrated against the Kashmiri people are an eye-opener for the entire international community. 

It added that Indiaís actionsóturning IIOJK into a garrison, arresting hundreds of youth, subjecting the general populace to mental and physical torture through crackdowns, house raids, cordon-and-search operations and frisking, and erecting barricades on roadsóexpose its moral and legal bankruptcy in the occupied territory. 

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)