Islamabad, January 21, 2022 (PPI-OT):Justice continues to elude the victims of Gaw Kadal massacre victims despite the passage of 32 years. Over 50 people were killed in Gaw Kadal area of Srinagar on January 21 in 1990 when Indian troops had resorted to indiscriminate firing on peaceful demonstrators who were protesting against the molestation of several women by troops the previous night.
A report released by Kashmir Media Service, today, said that Indian troops had committed scores of brutal massacres since 1989 in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and over 95,950 Kashmiris had fallen to Indian bullets in the past 32 years and that memories of Gaw Kadal like bloodbaths were still fresh in the minds of Kashmiris.
The report pointed out that the aim of committing massacres was to instill fear among the people of Kashmir, adding that the large-scale killings of the Kashmiris were also meant to change demography of the territory by turning its Muslim majority status into a minority.
While saying that the Gaw Kadal and other massacres are a reminder of the criminal face of the occupation troops, the report deplored that the RSS-backed Indian regime has planned to carry out more Gaw Kadal like carnage in the occupied territory. It lamented that Hindutva-inspired Modi had crossed all records of atrocities in IIOJK.
However, the report said, wanton killings would not deter Kashmiris from pursuing their struggle for right to self-determination and they would not rest till achieving freedom from Indian yoke. The report urged the global rights bodies to probe massacres committed by Indian troops in the occupied territory. The world must play its role to punish culprits of Gaw Kadal and other massacres in IIOJK, it said and added that killing fields of Kashmir was a challenge to the so-called civilized world.
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