Srinagar: Deploring the “criminal” silence of the international community over what it called Government of India’s “systematic genocide” of Kashmiris, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front on Wednesday appealed to the conscientious people across the globe to raise their voice against the oppression and barbarity being perpetrated in the Valley.
 “65 people, most of them teenagers, have been killed in the past three months while thousands have been injured in the use of brute force by armed forces. The entire population has been locked up by imposing curfew and restrictions. Yet, the indifference of the international community towards India’s naked aggression and barbarity in Kashmir makes the Valleyites wonder if humanity has ceased to exist, if humans still feel the pain for others or if the world considers them part of human race at all,” JKLF vice-chairman, Advocate Bashir Ahmad Bhat said in a statement.
 Bhat, who visited the injured at SKIMS and SMHS hospitals, said the paramilitary CRPF men and police were ransacking the houses across the Valley while youth were being shot dead or injured in unprovoked use of force. 
 Meanwhile, the statement said, hundreds of people staged demonstrations at Maisuma, Budshah Chowk, Basant Bagh, Barbarshah and other area of the city against the unprovoked firing on carom playing youth at Maisuma.  Yasin Malik’s cousin, who was among five injured in the incident, continues to be in a critical condition at the SKIMS, Soura, Bhat said while appealing to the people to pray for the recovery of Malik’s cousin and thousands of others youth injured during the past few months.

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