Fascist Modi's August 5 move an attack on Kashmir's identity: GA Gulzar.

ISLAMABAD -- All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Vice Chairman, Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar, has said that August 5 was one of the most tragic, painful and darkest day of modern Kashmir history and the Kashmiris will always observe it as exploitation day, a mourning and a black day.

Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar in his message on Friday said it was on August 5 in 2019 when RSS-backed fascist government led by killer of humanity Narendra Modi usurped political, social, religious and all other basic rights of Kashmiris, turned Indian illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) into a big open-air prison and imposed suffocating restrictions in the territory.

He said this was attack on Kashmir's unique identity, culture, employment, demography and basic fundamental rights by Hindutva forces. He said today, the life, property, honour, culture, identity, land and everything of Kashmiris is at stake and it is the time to get united against Hindutva imperialism and expansionism.

He said since August 5, one million Indian forces' personnel equipped with latest weapons and sweeping powers have been murdering and brutalizing the Kashmiris with atrocious vengeance. These brutal occupation forces are trampling everything under their jackboots and punishing the Kashmiri people for demanding their inalienable right to self-determination, with impunity.

The APHC leader deplored that the RSS-backed Modi government was hell-bent to turn Kashmir into graveyard and wasteland for imposition of its devil Hindutva ideology.

He said, the Indian occupation forces are perpetrating heinous crimes like systematic genocide, brutal torture, mass arrests, destruction of properties and molestation of women in IIOJK to crush the people's popular voice of freedom.

He said Hindutva forces have martyred over six hundred Kashmiris including women and children. Over twenty thousand people including Hurriyat leaders, human rights defenders, journalists, social activists, women and children have been arrested. During the period, more than 1500 structures have been turned into rumble through shelling and use of chemical weapons by Indian troops. These crimes speak volumes of Hindutva terrorism in the valley,' he added.

Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar said the Hindutva forces have started the settler-colonial project by bringing administrative changes in the disputed region which started with the introduction of new...

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