Brussels: KCEU to organize a protest camp in Brussels on August 4, 2024

Brussels: Kashmir Council Europe (KCEU) announced that it will organize a protest camp in Brussels on Sunday, August 4, 2024.

The event would be held at 1 pm at the Europe Squire in front of Central Train Station in the European Headquarters Brussels.

In a statement, the Chairman Kashmir Council Europe (KCEU) Ali Raza Syed said, beside the protest camp, he would also address gatherings at Pakistan’s embassies in Brussels and the Hauge and a webinar on August 4, 2024. These events are being organized to protest against Indian action of August 5, 2019 for revoking special status of Jammu and Kashmir.

Chair of KCEU said, Kashmiris who are oppressed since occupation of large parts of their land by the Indian forces on October 27, 1947, are facing more hardships and miseries in the post August 5, 2019’s Indian actions.

According to him, a large number of the political figures, human rights activists, socially active persons and journals are in jail and even Indian government removed necessary facilities to pro-Indian political leaders including Omar Abdullah & Mehbooba Mufti.

Ali Raza Syed said, brutalities particularly extra judicial killings by the Indian forces are constantly going on in the occupied lands of the state and Indian forces use black laws for such atrocities.

In last five years, by changing the Jammu and Kashmir’s domicile’s rules, Indian government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi granted residence status of the state (Jammu and Kashmir) to hundreds of thousands of non-Kashmiris. Additionally, land banks of thousands of kanals have been indefinite and earmarked in different districts of the occupied Jammu and Kashmir to be allotted to the non-state subjects in the name of ‘investment and industry’.

He said, situation of the occupied Jammu and Kashmir is that the state of Kashmir lost control over all of its higher educational institutions and university’s affairs including Jammu & Kashmir National Law University. Even the state of Jammu and Kashmir lost its control over Hindu’s shrines and the Indian competent authority has been empowered to take Suo Moto notice and adopt measure in accordance with their desires.

Not only golf and other clubs but all forest lands and tourist development authorities are now directly controlled by New Delhi as the Indian authorities based in the country’s capital can issue, allot, lease or provide prime land and tourist facilities to anybody from India now.

Chair of KCEU said, it is also noted that all Kashmiri IAS officers have been posted on less important positions, while non local officials are running the administration from Jammu.

Ali Raza Syed asked the International community including human rights organizations to take serious notice of the situation in occupied Kashmir and stop human rights violation in the state.

He further said, rights to self determination of the people of Jammu and Kashmir should be given to them. So that they could freely exercise this right under the international supervision for the liberation and independent political future of their home land.