Kashmiris observe 28th anniversary of Gawkadal massacre

ISLAMABAD: Twenty eight years ago on January 21, 1990, Indian occupied troops massacred 55 innocent Kashmiris, while other 250 sustained bullet injuries at the localities of Gawkadal and Basantbagh situated in Srinagar in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK). A day earlier Jagmohan Malhotra of the extremist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) became the puppet governor of the IHK, and he ordered house to house search for arresting mujahedeen.

In order to protest against this provocation, some 20,000 people took to the street and shouted slogans against these actions. Unofficial death toll claims are at around 280. In a condemnable move now after 28 years, the case has been closed, and the culprits have been declared untraceable. The International Kashmir Lobby Group (Youth Forum for Kashmir- (YFK) is a non-partisan, international non-governmental organisation, has commemorates this brutal incident and stated that the heinous act couldn’t be pardoned.

Condemning the atrocious crime of the Indian occupation forces in the strongest possible terms, the YFK has drawn the attention of the international community and the global human rights associations to take a look into this massacre and demand of the Indian government to bring the perpetrators of the crime to justice.