Rawalpindi : Dr Syed Nazir Gilani, President of Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights (JKCHR) -- NGO in special consultative status with the United Nations has termed the concern showed by former chief minister of Indian occupied Kashmir Omar Abdullah as lopsided and an ignorant and unfair interpretation of the ‘Bloody Sunday’, says a press release.
Dr Gilani who is on UN Register as an Expert in Peace Keeping, Humanitarian Operations and Election Monitoring Missions stated this while commenting on Omar Abdullah’s tweet regarding killing in occupied Kashmir in which 20 people including three Indian soldiers were killed.
National Conference President and former chief minister of Indian occupied Kashmir Omar Abdullah had tweeted, “A Very Bloody Sunday in Kashmir today. 13 militants killed but not without extracting a high cost – 3 army men killed in the line of duty and 4 protesters killed around the encounter sites.”
Dr Gilani said one need not doubt the sense of concern shown by Omar Abdullah on the loss of life. However, the rationale of the concern is lopsided. It is equally an ignorant and unfair interpretation of the “Bloody Sunday.” In addition, the tweet falls short of a convincing version of the situation. The 13 militants killed, are the state subjects and killed by non-state subjects. These are Muslims and have been killed by non-Muslims. The 4 protesters are also state subjects and Muslims.
He said that it was unfortunate and unfair that Omar Abdullah should fail or avoid identifying the 17 killed as Kashmiri Muslims or at least as Kashmiris. Short listing them into militants and protesters, is denying them their genuine identity. One should not support loss of life in any manner. But to separate 3 army men (non-state people) and accredit them to have died in the line of duty is way beyond a just interpretation or understanding. It is untrue that the 3 Indian army men have died in the line of duty.
He pointed out Indian Army was placed under a temporary bilateral discipline agreed on 27 October 1947 to perform 4 duties and to act as a supplement and as a sub-ordinate force in the occupied Kashmir. The bilateral arrangement with the Government of Jammu and Kashmir (elected from only a part of the territory) has been challenged by the Government of Pakistan at the United Nations. United Nations on 21 April 1948 has placed 3 further restrictions on the number, behaviour and location of these Indian forces. “Any action outside the bilateral agreement and international restraints is indiscipline and an erring behaviour. It constitutes an offence and in the case of Kashmir, it would be a war crime,” he added.
