Human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza has condemned the reported killing of five members of a family, including three children, in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK). He has urged the United Nations, the Government of India and the international community to intervene amid allegations of escalating violence against civilians.
In a press statement issued from Glasgow, Scotland today, Chairman of Jammu Kashmir Tehreek-e-Ittifaq-e-Rai Mr. Mirza said that a grenade or rocket attack on a civilian residence had killed three children, their mother and their grandmother.
Calling for an impartial investigation, Mirza said the deaths of the children and their family members demanded accountability and international scrutiny. The appeal also cited allegations by senior Joint Awami Action Committee members Umer Nazir Kashmiri, Mujtaba Farooqi and Imtiaz Aslam, who have claimed that more than 100 young people have been killed, hundreds injured and thousands arrested or detained in PoJK since June 5. Mirza called for an independent international investigation into the reported deaths, protection for peaceful protesters, unrestricted humanitarian access, the release of those arbitrarily detained and disclosure of detainees’ whereabouts.
