Azad Kashmir President calls for holding India accountable for war crimes

Azad Kashmir President calls for holding India accountable for war crimes.

The AJK President Sardar Masood Khan suggested this in an article published in a monthly magazine.

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He argued if the current world order, impartially and non-selectively, pursue international rule of law instead of realpolitik, Indians would have faced accountability for war crimes against humanity.

He said India had to face an international tribunal like the Nazi officials did after World War-II, if the international law takes its course fairly.

AJK president cited a long list of India’s crimes against humanity in occupied Jammu and Kashmir but the most despicable and culpable amongst them included genocide, systemic ethnic cleansing.

He also cited Indian war crimes against non-combatants and the use of excessive force without respecting the principles of distinction, precaution and proportionality, under the false pretext of fighting terrorism.

He said that whatever the Indian government has done to the Kashmiris especially in the past year (and before) is a flagrant violation of international law.

Meanwhile, according to AJK President office, He called Indian actions as violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, international humanitarian law in general, and the UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir in particular

AJK President noted all the “lawless” laws applied in IIOJ&K and Indian actions taken there modeled on Nazism and fascism.

He said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had no authority to take these illegal measures, because the United Nations Security Council had declared the territory as disputed decades ago.

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