Mishal Malik, the wife of detained Hurriyat leader Yaseen Malik has appealed to the United Nation and International Court of Justice (ICJ) to take notice of grave violation of human rights in occupied Kashmir and the plight of Kashmir women and children.
While addressing press conference here on Wednesday at Lahore Press club she said all the women of an entire village were gang raped regardless of their age after the men are forced out of their homes. She said killings, gang rapes and molestation by the Indian forces has become the order of the day.
"Children and women are more vulnerable to violence and are easy prey. The Indian army use children as human shields during search operations," she said.
Talking about the ordeal of her husband, Mishal said, "He is detained at an army interrogation cell, where there are not even any windows for fresh air to come through. Rather than being moved to an intensive care unit as the doctors in an Indian army hospital advised, he is being tortured."
She said that many like her husband were in need of life saving drugs and asked the UN to ensure patients are given good medical treatment in hospitals and the supply of life saving drugs, food, water and electricity in Kashmir.
Indian forces are treating innocent, unarmed Kashmiris like terrorists, whose only crime is to fight for their identity, she added. She urged the UN to take practical steps for stopping Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir and that the situation might worsen with the death of her husband or other Kashmiris, like it had with the death of Burhan Wani.
She said that instead of resolving the issue via talks like civilized nations do, India was committing human right violations in Kashmir. She said that Kashmiri women are gang raped and tortured in their own homes. They are half mothers and half widows, which means they are always waiting for their sons and husbands to come back after they are abducted by the Indian army and they are not sure if they are dead or alive.
Mishal also condemned the ongoing fresh wave of terrorism and genocide of innocent Kashmiris in the Indian-occupied Kashmir. Indian armed forces are carrying out horrible atrocities in the valley, she said.
Mishal called on champions of human rights and democracy in India to stop attacks in the region, India cannot curb our freedom by force for long, she warned.
Indian security forces have arrested pro-freedom leaders. The valley is currently facing a complete shutter down. At the end, she also appealed to media, civil society human rights activist to highlight Kashmir cause at international level.
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