Greater Kashmir: Srinagar: Friday,
May 06, 2016.
J&K RTI
Movement, Tehreek-e-Jawabdihi Thursday launched signature campaign at Press
Enclave here, demanding revocation of laws which provide impunity to
soldiers,
“J&K RTI
Movement, Tehreek-e-Jawabdihi and Wake-up Call have taken an initiative to
expose the truth about laws, like Armed Forces Special Power Act” (AFSPA),
Public Safety Act (PSA) and Disturbed Area Act (DAA) in place. The message will
be taken to masses by creating awareness about the reality of AFSPA and other
laws which are misused against civilians,” said the organizers.
“The AFSPA
violates fundamental rights, human rights and leaves one with no right to
justice. Since 1990, when AFSPA was extended to JK, it equipped forces with
unrestricted powers including the power to arrest or enter any home or dwelling
without a warrant as well as the power to shoot, arrest and kill at the hint of
any suspicion,” said Zareef Ahmed Zareef.
“This law has
made forces powerful in JK that they cannot be questioned by legal redress
mechanisms. Thus, disappearances, torture, and killings have become a regular
affair,” he alleged.
“Innocents
are being targeted and killed due to the long implementation of AFSPA in JK,
and we are seeing no end to it. It is high time to intensify all our actions
with the best of our abilities, to put the end to the gruesome massacre across
J&K,” said Dr Sheikh Ghulam Rasool, Chairman J&K RTI Movement said.
“It is
because of the silence of larger section of people or political stunt
exercises, like merely issuing press statements to condemn the atrocities
resulted by AFSPA, that JK is continuing to suffer on humanitarian grounds. It
is time today to break all silence, mobilise in large numbers and protest with
our loudest voices to get rid away with AFSPA from our state,” he added.
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