{EOP}Kashmiris refuse to budge...

 

NEW DELHI (INP) – All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani has said that the people of the Indian-occupied Kashmir will continue with their freedom movement till their right to self-determination is accorded.
“The people of the IHK will continue their peaceful move titled ‘Quit Kashmir Movement’ against the Indian occupation till they are not accorded with their right to self-determination,” he said while talking the international media at his residence here on Friday.

Geelani lashed out at talks, saying: “Unless India shows flexibility, negotiations would be out of question even illogical.”
He recalled Indian brutalities, saying that Indian troops killed hundreds of innocents, raped dozens of girls, detained thousands under draconian laws such as PSA.He called upon India for immediate and unconditional release of all the detained Kashmiris, including school and college students, who were arrested by Indian armed forces on false charges.
He repeated his six-point proposal for solution to Kashmir dispute, saying “India will have to repeal black laws such as PSA, withdraw its armed forces, punish the guilty officers and personnel of Indian army, release illegally detained Kashmir leaders and activists.
Ali Geelani , in an interview, has also complained that while the Kashmiri freedom struggle has parallels with the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, it was not given the same media attention in the West. He did not mention it, but this is because the West continues to be fascinated by the prospects of India as a huge market, and also as the world’s most populous democracy, and thus does not see its flaws, even though these are very obvious, and which include Kashmir. Kashmir is the issue on which India almost immediately after its independence, went into violation with UN Security Council Resolutions, and remains non-compliant with them.
Syed Ali Geelani also regretted that the Egyptian Army facilitated its people, while Kashmiris were still engaged in a struggle against occupation. Kashmir remains in illegal occupation of India, and the struggle against these occupying forces is qualitatively different from that by the Arab peoples against their rulers. It is therefore significant that Mr Geelani also expressed the need for the movement in Kashmir to set its targets. A logical target is the exercise of that right of self-determination denied to the Kashmiri people since 1947, first by the Maharaja of Kashmir, and then by India itself, and for which the best means is the UN-supervised plebiscite which India itself had accepted. However, before that goal is achieved, the Kashmiri struggle for self-determination must achieve international recognition.

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