Madam Chairperson
In response to statement of the Indian representative, let me clarify, at the outset, that Jammu and Kashmir is not a part of India. The United Nations defines it as “disputed territory”. This is printed on all official United Nations’ maps, says a press release received here today from New York.
2. The “final disposition” of the State of Jammu and Kashmir is to be decided by the Kashmiri people through a fair and an impartial plebiscite held under UN auspices as stipulated in numerous resolutions of the Security Council. India accepted these Security Council resolutions. It must implement them. Its refusal to do so, for seven decades, constitutes a flagrant and continuing violation of the Security Council resolutions and of the United Nations Charter.
3. Since the fascist RSS-BJP government’s unilateral and illegal actions on 5 August 2019, India’s 900,000 occupation forces in occupied Kashmir – the “densest” occupation in history – have escalated their oppression of 8 million Kashmiri men, women, and children in the world’s largest “open-air prison”.
4. On 12 September 2021, Pakistan presented a comprehensive Dossier containing concrete evidence of the massive human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide being perpetrated by Indian forces in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The Dossier substantiates that, since 1989, Indian occupation forces have committed over 96,000 extra-judicial killings, around 162,000 cases of arbitrary arrests and torture, over 25,000 pellet gun injuries, 11,250 cases of rape and gang rape. And, 8652 unmarked mass graves have been identified, attesting to the genocide which is being committed in occupied Kashmir. Yet, we fear that these discoveries of Indian crimes are but the tip of iceberg.
Madam Chairperson,
5. India’s reign of terror against its minorities continues unabated. The practitioners of the Hindutva ideology, who rule Indian today, have unrobed the mask of secularism to reveal the true face of Indian fascism. The so-called “largest democracy” has transformed into a bastion of Hindutva hate, violence, terror, and Islamophobia.
6. India’s 200 million defenceless Muslims are lynched by cow vigilantes and killed in pogroms led by RSS “brown-shirt” thugs; where members from India’s minorities, including Christians, Sikhs and Dalits, are persecuted at the hands of Hindu fundamentalists; where the criminal perpetrators of the Gujrat and Dehli pogroms enjoy state office and patronage; where the desecration of mosques, including the Babri Mosque and a temple being built in its place, is the state agenda; where churches and gurdwaras are torched; where the Citizenship Amendment Act aims to purge India of its Muslims; where Hijab is banned for Muslim women; where Muslim women and girls are deprived of their right to education; where anti-Muslim social media trolls of “Corona Jihad” rule the internet; and the ruling RSS-BJP leaders call Muslims “termites” and the “green virus”; and where calls for genocide of Muslims have become a new normal.
7. On behalf of Kashmiri women, we ask the world, we ask this Commission, to demand that India end its state terrorism against Pakistan; against the Kashmiris; and against its own minorities. We ask the world to hold India accountable for its crimes, in particular against millions of Kashmiri women.
I thank you.
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