His Excellency
Mr. Ban Ki-moon, The Secretary General of United Nations Organization.
Subject: Demand for investigation of 1,000 unmarked graved found in IOK
Your Excellency, It is pleased to inform you that in its recent report “Amnesty International” has urged for an urgent investigation into some 1,000 unmarked graves found in the Indian occupied Kashmir (IOK) . A Kashmir rights group had earlier revealed that it had found the 1,000 unmarked graves across a dozen villages in the area around the town of “Uri” over a 14-month period. As the Amnesty said, these may be victims of unlawful killings and "disappearances", there is a need of independent investigation by a team of experts from the United Nations to find out that what is actual situation about these graves. Amnesty's statement said: "The grave sites are believed to contain the remains of victims of unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, torture and other abuses which occurred in the context of military operation persisting in the state since 1989 by the Indian Security forces." It called for "prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigations". Amnesty said the grave sites "must be secured in order to preserve the evidence". In its recent report, BBC also confirmed that one of the locations identified by the Kashmir-based rights group, the Association of the Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), is Kichama village, 62km (39 miles) from Srinagar. The APDP says more than 8,000 people have disappeared in Kashmir over the past two decades. We demand your Excellency to send a fact finding mission to the region for an Independent and impartial investigation in to the matter and culprit of this crime should be brought to justice . We request to his Excellency on behalf of oppressed people of Jamu & Kashmir, to use your good offices to stop the genocide by the Indian forces in Jamu &Kashmir and We want the international community to realize her responsibility to bring an end to the occupation of Kashmir,” The way to peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue lies in tripartite negotiations between India, Pakistan and the Kashmiris. We remind that tucked between India, Pakistan, China, and Russia, Kashmir was an independent princely state when British raj partitioned India on August 14, 1947. Princely states enjoyed the options of accession to India, accession to Pakistan or nationhood. Authority to make the choice, according to the doctrine announced and practiced by then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in Hyderabad and Junagadh, devolved on the people if the ruler’s creed varied with the predominant religious persuasion. In Kashmir, the oppressive Maharaja had provoked a popular rebellion when independence arrived in 1947. that was the seed of the current tragedy and the Kashmir nuclear abyss. we, the True Representatives of the oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir, expatriates and our sympathizers, wants you to know that the people of Kashmir also want their Right to Self-Determination as the other nations have .like the people of Kosovo Therefore, Recalling all of the relevant resolutions of the United Nations Security Council for upholding the right to self-determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir; Rejecting any other mechanism, elections or acts of constituent assembly imposed by the occupying power as an alternative to the right to self-determination; Deploring the imposition of restrictions on the freedom of movement on the Kashmiri leadership (inside and outside) including the APHC leadership; Now Calling upon his Excellency in assisting and influencing the Prime Minister of India: to implement the United Nations Security Council resolutions on the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people; to put an end to its state terrorism; to withdraw the occupational forces from the territory of Jammu and Kashmir; to release all political prisoners and detainees; to allow freedom of travel to the State of Jammu and Kashmir, without any hindrance; to ensure that the Kashmiri expatriate leadership can travel to Jammu and Kashmir; to allow access to major human rights NGOs and humanitarian organizations in the state of Jammu and Kashmir;” and to ensure that Kashmiris participate at all negotiations pertaining to their political future; and . Condemning the unabated serious crimes, torture, extra-judicial killings, custodial deaths and disappearances, fake encounters, arbitrary detentions, destruction of houses, shops and villages, and rape as instruments of suppression by the Indian Government through its military, paramilitary forces and mercenaries;
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