A PROTEST
AGAINST OCCUPATION OF KASHMIR HELD IN FRONT OF INDIAN EMBASSY IN HOLLAND:
POSTED BY HABIB YOUSAFZAI, KASHMIR DIASPORA ALLIANCE
ASSALAM-O-ALAIKUM!
NEWS RELEASE:
BRUSSELS,OCTOBER 27, 2013
Kashmir Council EU (KC-EU) and Kashmir Centre Holland held a
protest demonstration in Holland against occupation of Kashmir by Indian forces
for last six decades.
The protesters made an urgent appeal to the international
community to come forward and ask India to grant the people of Kashmir their
inalienable right of self-determination.The protest was staged in front of Indian embassy in the city of
Hague in Netherland on Sunday. The demonstration was held by the council with
collaboration of Kashmir Centre Holland with collaboration of other organizations
on the occasion of ‘Day of Occupation’ of Kashmir by the Indian forces.Indian foreign occupation forces entered Kashmir on October 27th,
1947 and the Kashmiris of both parts of Indian Held (Maqbooza Kashmir)and Pakistan
Administered (AJK) and based in other parts of the world observe the day as
black day.
Leading the demonstration in Hague, Chairman Kashmir Council
EU, Mr.Ali Raza Syed and Kashmir Centre Holland Executive Director Raja Zeib
Khan handed over a protest memorandum to the Indian Embassy’s officials.The memorandum asked the India to withdraw its forces from the
held Kashmir and allow the Kashmiris to decide freely about their political
future.The memorandum also demanded impartial investigation of thousands
of unnamed mass graves discovered in IHK. If India is not presenting the
culprits involved in the killing of the innocent people buried in the graves,
the International community should pressurized India to present the responsible
personnel.
Speakers at the demonstration said, India is a flagrant violator
of international law, in particular reference to the mass graves, rapes,
murder, forcible arrest of Kashmiri leaders, imprisonment, coercion and fear in
the (Maqbooza Kashmir).The protesters also gathered in front of Dutch
parliament and called upon the international community to take serious notice
of situation in Indian Held Kashmir (Maqbooza Kashmir).
On the mass graves in IHK, the demonstrators demanded the
International community to dispatch independent teams to investigate the issue.The speakers of gathering reiterated that the people of Kashmir
should be given neither more nor less a self-determination vote which should be
conducted and monitored by the United Nations and international observers.
They said that peace in South Asia in general and Kashmir in
particular is too important to be left to two rivals alone with their own
self-interests guiding their management. The speakers urged both India and
Pakistan to include the recognized leadership of Jammu & Kashmir in all
future negotiations on the issue, emphasizing that with Kashmiri participation,
anything is possible but without it, nothing is. The demonstrators led by Kashmir Council EU Chairman Mr.Ali
Raza Syed and Kashmir Centre Holland Chief Zeib Khan carrying placards chanted
anti Indian slogans and called the international community to interfere to stop
the large scale human rights violation in (Maqbooza Kashmir).
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