Srinagar, November 06, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Hurriyat leaders and organizations have paid rich tributes to the Jammu martyrs of November 1947 and reiterated the Kashmiris’ resolve to take the mission of their martyrs to its logical conclusion at all costs.
Hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris were butchered by the forces of Dogra Maharaja Hari Singh, Indian army and Hindu extremists in different parts of Jammu region while they were migrating to Pakistan during the first week of November in 1947.
The illegally detained All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Masarrat Aalam Butt, in a message from New Delhi’s Tihar Jail said that Jammu massacre was the first act of systematic ethnic cleansing and the worst example of state terrorism after the illegal military occupation of Jammu and Kashmir carried out by India on 27 October 1947.
The APHC Chairman while commemorating the precious sacrifices by the Muslims of Jammu said, we are indebted to the sacred blood of 4 lac martyrs of Jammu and the Kashmiri people reiterate their pledge on this day to carry on the freedom struggle till it reaches its logical conclusion.
Masarrat Aalam Butt hailed the valour and steadfastness of the freedom-loving people of Kashmir who have been besieged by more than one million Indian troops and are facing the worst kind of genocide, barbarism and human rights abuses which the human history might not have witnessed so for.
The incarcerated APHC Chairman urged the United Nations Secretary General to take serious action against India for victimizing the people of Kashmir for demanding their inalienable right to self-determination. The world community should come forward under the auspices of the UN Secretary General for a peaceful exercise of plebiscite to resolve the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions as has been done in dozens of disputed territories all over the world like East Timor and Sudan, in the recent past, he maintained.
The Hurriyat forum led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a statement issued in Srinagar, paying homage to the victims of Jammu massacre, said the ethnic cleansing of the Muslims of Jammu is an extremely painful chapter in the history of Kashmir freedom struggle. It said the gruesome murder of lacs of Muslims to change the demography of the occupied territory was an abhorrent act and it is a shame that it was done with impunity in a systematic and planned manner under the patronage of those in power.
The Hurriyat forum termed the sacrifices offered by Muslims of Jammu region as a great asset to the ongoing movement for right to self-determination. It added that the people of Jammu and Kashmir are committed to continue their struggle for securing their right to self-determination for which both leadership and people of the territory have offered and are still offering unprecedented sacrifices.
The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Mass Movement, Molvi Bashir Ahmad Irfani, in a statement in Srinagar said the great sacrifice of the martyrs of Jammu will always be remembered. He said the massacre of Muslims in Jammu was the most horrific event in the history of Kashmir and its bitter memories are still fresh in the minds of Kashmiri people even after the passage of more than seventy years. He urged the United Nations and the international community to play role in resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people to save them from the Indian brutalities.
The Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Front spokesperson in a statement in Srinagar said the genocide of Kashmiris, which started in 1947, still continued and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in IIOJK for demanding their right to self-determination but the world was acting as a mere spectator. He said the sacred blood of Kashmiri martyrs will definitely bring positive results and the Kashmiris will see the dawn of freedom soon.
The Tehreek-e-Wahdat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said the horrific process of massacre of Kashmiris started by Indian imperialism in the occupied territory 74 years ago is still continuing and it has resulted in the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people for raising their voice for freedom. He said the massacre of lacs of Muslims in Jammu is a living example of Indian deception, treachery and deception.
He said that the massacre had turned the Muslim majority in the Jammu region into a minority and now Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government was playing the same horrible game with the Muslims in the Kashmir Valley where amid Indian military siege the blood of the youth was being shed every day so that the majority of Muslims in the valley could also be turned into a minority.
Vice Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Young Men’s League, Zahid Ashraf in a statements in Islamabad condemned the mass massacre of Muslims of Jammu region by the Dogra government backed by communal Hindu and Sikh groups on November 6, 1947.
The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Students and Youth Forum, Manzoor Ahmed Butt in his statement, paying glowing tributes to the hundreds of thousands of innocent Kashmiri Muslims, said that the massacre only strengthened the Kashmiris’ resolve to resist the occupation regime and pursue their dream of freedom.
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