Kashmir
Life: Srinagar: Wednesday, 15 April 2015.
The J&K
RTI Movement Tuesday strongly condemned the killing of a civilian in Tral by
army.
“The
atrocious crime again reminds about draconian laws like AFSPA, which provides
impunity to troopers serving in this militarized region,” said Dr Sheikh Ghulam
Rasool, Chairman JK RTI Movement. “The atrocities and killing cannot be
legitimized by the world’s ‘biggest democracy’ and cases can’t be put under the
carpet by shielding its forces time and again.”
Kashmiris, Dr
Rasool said, are never safe under these draconian laws.
“The entire
population of Kashmir region has been living under a constant terror of these
laws for the past 25 years,” he said. “It is irresponsible and unjustified that
after killing civilians, army has been branding them as terrorists.”
“Nothing can
justify this barbarism and everyone should condemn it in the strongest terms,”
Dr Rasool continued.
It is the
worst state of affairs, he said, that after each and every brutal and inhuman
killing of innocents, the state has been ordering probes and inquiries yielding
no results and bringing not a single culprit to the justice.
“Ordering a
probe in Kashmir is futile exercise and meant to shield the culprits,” he said.
“The need of the hour is to revoke AFSPA and other inhuman laws from J&K as
soon as possible so that no human loss takes place in future.”
India, he
said, needs to be serious about the revocation of AFSPA now. “JK RTI Movement
expresses solidarity with the bereaved family and the nation in this hour of
grief.”
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