Srinagar, January 21, 2019 (PPI-OT): In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of International Forum for Justice and Human Rights, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, who has been pursuing the Gaw Kadal massacre case in Human Rights Commission of the territory since past many years, has said that the reply provided to him in October last year by the Indian police about the incident reads that only 22 people were killed on January 21, 1990 and just 12 got injured, which is far from the reality.
Muhammad Ahsan Untoo in a statement issued in Srinagar said that at least 52 civilians were killed by the troops on January 21, 1990 and that he would not take rest till the families of killed persons were granted justice in the form of stern punishment to the guilty troops. He said there are scores of eye-witnesses and there is no doubt that 52 unarmed protestors were killed and some 250 injured in the incident.
A peaceful procession that had come from Chotta Bazar, Srinagar, and passed through Habba Kadal and other areas reached Gaw Kadal Bridge where the troops fire upon the protestors leaving 52 dead and over 250 in a pool of blood, he said.
Muhammad Ahsan Untoo said that he had been urging the Human Rights Commission to impress upon the deputy commissioner of Srinagar to come out with the detailed report on the martyrs and the number of those injured in the incident. “This is the mockery of investigation and it is time that the administration comes up with the detailed report on the dead and those injured,” he said.
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