The Indian armed and police establishment, enjoying unbridled powers under black laws, are openly targeting innocent youth in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir to suppress the Kashmiris’ ongoing struggle for securing their true demand of a plebiscite acknowledged by the United Nations.

According to a report released by Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of International Youth Day, being observed today, Indian forces’ personnel are brutally murdering Kashmiri youth for demanding their fundamental political and legal rights, including their birthright, plebiscite, and right to self-determination as per the United Nations.

The Kashmiri youth are being targeted, harassed, and arrested in the garb of cordon and search operations and house raids by Indian troops, paramilitary, and police personnel on a daily basis. The report said that Indian forces personnel have intensified extra-judicial killings of Kashmiri youth since August 5, 2019, when the BJP-led Indian government repealed the special status of IIOJK and imposed a military and police siege in the territory.

The report pointed out that Indian troops have martyred 54 Kashmiri youth and arrested as many as 2,825 this year so far, while 96,341 Kashmiris, mostly youth, had fallen to Indian bullets since 1989 till date in IIOJK. The report said thousands of Kashmiri youth, along with Hurriyat leaders, Ulema, women, journalists, and human rights activists, are facing illegal detentions.

The report said that the BJP regime must understand that no amount of brutalization and anti-Kashmiri policy will be able to subjugate the Kashmiris. It said India can kill and detain Kashmiri youth, but it cannot defeat their stand and sentiment for freedom and peace. The people of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to continue their struggle till complete success, it said.

The report said history is witness to the fact that freedom movements and the political future of the people cannot be suppressed through the use of military might and state terrorism. It said the world community, particularly the United Nations, is duty-bound to stop injustice, brutalities, and merciless killing of youth in IIOJK and must come to the rescue of the Kashmiris. India must be held accountable for its heinous crimes and continued human rights violations in the occupied territory, it added.